rcu: Fix racy re-initialization of irq_work causing hangs
authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Fri, 8 Aug 2025 17:03:22 +0000 (19:03 +0200)
committerNeeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Mon, 11 Aug 2025 03:13:49 +0000 (08:43 +0530)
commit61399e0c5410567ef60cb1cda34cca42903842e3
tree4b076d7251374a32eb2cd581f4a7a8c85fdc729d
parent8f5ae30d69d7543eee0d70083daf4de8fe15d585
rcu: Fix racy re-initialization of irq_work causing hangs

RCU re-initializes the deferred QS irq work everytime before attempting
to queue it. However there are situations where the irq work is
attempted to be queued even though it is already queued. In that case
re-initializing messes-up with the irq work queue that is about to be
handled.

The chances for that to happen are higher when the architecture doesn't
support self-IPIs and irq work are then all lazy, such as with the
following sequence:

1) rcu_read_unlock() is called when IRQs are disabled and there is a
   grace period involving blocked tasks on the node. The irq work
   is then initialized and queued.

2) The related tasks are unblocked and the CPU quiescent state
   is reported. rdp->defer_qs_iw_pending is reset to DEFER_QS_IDLE,
   allowing the irq work to be requeued in the future (note the previous
   one hasn't fired yet).

3) A new grace period starts and the node has blocked tasks.

4) rcu_read_unlock() is called when IRQs are disabled again. The irq work
   is re-initialized (but it's queued! and its node is cleared) and
   requeued. Which means it's requeued to itself.

5) The irq work finally fires with the tick. But since it was requeued
   to itself, it loops and hangs.

Fix this with initializing the irq work only once before the CPU boots.

Fixes: b41642c87716 ("rcu: Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to IRQ work")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202508071303.c1134cce-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
kernel/rcu/tree.c
kernel/rcu/tree.h
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h