DA monitor can be accessed from multiple cores simultaneously, this is
likely, for instance when dealing with per-task monitors reacting on
events that do not always occur on the CPU where the task is running.
This can cause race conditions where two events change the next state
and we see inconsistent values. E.g.:
[62] event_srs: 27: sleepable x sched_wakeup -> running (final)
[63] event_srs: 27: sleepable x sched_set_state_sleepable -> sleepable
[63] error_srs: 27: event sched_switch_suspend not expected in the state running
In this case the monitor fails because the event on CPU 62 wins against
the one on CPU 63, although the correct state should have been
sleepable, since the task get suspended.
Detect if the current state was modified by using try_cmpxchg while
storing the next value. If it was, try again reading the current state.
After a maximum number of failed retries, react by calling a special
tracepoint, print on the console and reset the monitor.
Remove the functions da_monitor_curr_state() and da_monitor_set_state()
as they only hide the underlying implementation in this case.
Monitors where this type of condition can occur must be able to account
for racing events in any possible order, as we cannot know the winner.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250728135022.255578-6-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The RV da_monitor API allows to start monitors in two ways:
da_handle_start_event_NAME and da_handle_start_run_event_NAME.
The former is used when the event is followed by the initial state of
the module, so we ignore the event but we know the monitor is in the
initial state and can start monitoring, the latter can be used if the
event can only occur in the initial state, so we do handle the event as
if the monitor was in the initial state.
This latter API is defined for implicit monitors but not per-task ones.
Define da_handle_start_run_event_NAME macro also for per-task monitors.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250728135022.255578-2-gmonaco@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
On start condition of a Buchi automaton, the automaton is executed twice.
This is fine for now, as all the current LTL operators do not care about
this. But it would break the 'next' operator, which will be introduced in a
follow-up patch.
Prepare for the introduction of the 'next' operator, only execute the
automaton once on start condition.
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/9379f4e7b9c1c69a6dca3e20a22936c850a25ca7.1752239482.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
While attempting to implement DA monitors for some complex specifications,
deterministic automaton is found to be inappropriate as the specification
language. The automaton is complicated, hard to understand, and
error-prone.
For these cases, linear temporal logic is more suitable as the
specification language.
Add support for linear temporal logic runtime verification monitor.
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/d366c1fed60ed4e8f6451f3c15a99755f2740b5f.1752088709.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Each RV monitor has one static buffer to send to the reactors. If multiple
errors are detected simultaneously, the one buffer could be overwritten.
Instead, leave it to the reactors to handle buffering.
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
RV per-task monitors are implemented through a monitor structure
available for each task_struct. This structure is reset every time the
monitor is (re-)started, to avoid inconsistencies if the monitor was
activated previously.
To do so, we reset the monitor on all threads using the macro
for_each_process_thread. However, this macro excludes the idle tasks on
each CPU. Idle tasks could be considered tasks on their own right and it
should be up to the model whether to ignore them or not.
Reset monitors also on the idle tasks for each present CPU whenever we
reset all per-task monitors.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250115151547.605750-2-gmonaco@redhat.com
Fixes: 792575348f ("rv/include: Add deterministic automata monitor definition via C macros")
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In Linux terms, the runtime verification monitors are encapsulated
inside the "RV monitor" abstraction. The "RV monitor" includes a set
of instances of the monitor (per-cpu monitor, per-task monitor, and
so on), the helper functions that glue the monitor to the system
reference model, and the trace output as a reaction for event parsing
and exceptions, as depicted below:
Linux +----- RV Monitor ----------------------------------+ Formal
Realm | | Realm
+-------------------+ +----------------+ +-----------------+
| Linux kernel | | Monitor | | Reference |
| Tracing | -> | Instance(s) | <- | Model |
| (instrumentation) | | (verification) | | (specification) |
+-------------------+ +----------------+ +-----------------+
| | |
| V |
| +----------+ |
| | Reaction | |
| +--+--+--+-+ |
| | | | |
| | | +-> trace output ? |
+------------------------|--|----------------------+
| +----> panic ?
+-------> <user-specified>
Add the rv/da_monitor.h, enabling automatic code generation for the
*Monitor Instance(s)* using C macros, and code to support it.
The benefits of the usage of macro for monitor synthesis are 3-fold as it:
- Reduces the code duplication;
- Facilitates the bug fix/improvement;
- Avoids the case of developers changing the core of the monitor code
to manipulate the model in a (let's say) non-standard way.
This initial implementation presents three different types of monitor
instances:
- DECLARE_DA_MON_GLOBAL(name, type)
- DECLARE_DA_MON_PER_CPU(name, type)
- DECLARE_DA_MON_PER_TASK(name, type)
The first declares the functions for a global deterministic automata monitor,
the second for monitors with per-cpu instances, and the third with per-task
instances.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/51b0bf425a281e226dfeba7401d2115d6091f84e.1659052063.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Gabriele Paoloni <gpaoloni@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Formally, a deterministic automaton, denoted by G, is defined as a
quintuple:
G = { X, E, f, x_0, X_m }
where:
- X is the set of states;
- E is the finite set of events;
- x_0 is the initial state;
- X_m (subset of X) is the set of marked states.
- f : X x E -> X $ is the transition function. It defines the
state transition in the occurrence of a event from E in
the state X. In the special case of deterministic automata,
the occurrence of the event in E in a state in X has a
deterministic next state from X.
An automaton can also be represented using a graphical format of
vertices (nodes) and edges. The open-source tool Graphviz can produce
this graphic format using the (textual) DOT language as the source code.
The dot2c tool presented in this paper:
De Oliveira, Daniel Bristot; Cucinotta, Tommaso; De Oliveira, Romulo
Silva. Efficient formal verification for the Linux kernel. In:
International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods.
Springer, Cham, 2019. p. 315-332.
Translates a deterministic automaton in the DOT format into a C
source code representation that to be used for monitoring.
This header file implements helper functions to facilitate the usage
of the C output from dot2c/k for monitoring.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/563234f2bfa84b540f60cf9e39c2d9f0eea95a55.1659052063.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Gabriele Paoloni <gpaoloni@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
