[PATCH v1] proc/vmcore: fix false positive lockdep warning

Boqun Feng boqun.feng at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 07:08:37 PST 2022


Hi,

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:37:02PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Lockdep complains that we do during mmap of the vmcore:
> 	down_write(mmap_lock);
> 	down_read(vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> And during read of the vmcore:
> 	down_read(vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> 	down_read(mmap_lock);
> 
> We cannot possibly deadlock when only taking vmcore_cb_rwsem in read
> mode, however, it's hard to teach that to lockdep.
> 

Lockdep warned about the above sequences because rw_semaphore is a fair
read-write lock, and the following can cause a deadlock:

	TASK 1			TASK 2		TASK 3
	======			======		======
	down_write(mmap_lock);
				down_read(vmcore_cb_rwsem)
						down_write(vmcore_cb_rwsem); // blocked
	down_read(vmcore_cb_rwsem); // cannot get the lock because of the fairness
				down_read(mmap_lock); // blocked
	
IOW, a reader can block another read if there is a writer queued by the
second reader and the lock is fair.

So there is a deadlock possiblity.

Regards,
Boqun


> So instead, convert to srcu to make lockdep happy. We need srcu as our
> callbacks can sleep. Witht his change, I cannot trigger any lockdep
> complaint.
> 
> [    6.386519] ======================================================
> [    6.387203] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> [    6.387965] 5.17.0-0.rc0.20220117git0c947b893d69.68.test.fc36.x86_64 #1 Not tainted
> [    6.388899] ------------------------------------------------------
> [    6.389657] makedumpfile/542 is trying to acquire lock:
> [    6.390308] ffffffff832d2eb8 (vmcore_cb_rwsem){.+.+}-{3:3}, at: mmap_vmcore+0x340/0x580
> [    6.391290]
> [    6.391290] but task is already holding lock:
> [    6.391978] ffff8880af226438 (&mm->mmap_lock#2){++++}-{3:3}, at: vm_mmap_pgoff+0x84/0x150
> [    6.392898]
> [    6.392898] which lock already depends on the new lock.
> [    6.392898]
> [    6.393866]
> [    6.393866] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
> [    6.394762]
> [    6.394762] -> #1 (&mm->mmap_lock#2){++++}-{3:3}:
> [    6.395530]        lock_acquire+0xc3/0x1a0
> [    6.396047]        __might_fault+0x4e/0x70
> [    6.396562]        _copy_to_user+0x1f/0x90
> [    6.397093]        __copy_oldmem_page+0x72/0xc0
> [    6.397663]        read_from_oldmem+0x77/0x1e0
> [    6.398229]        read_vmcore+0x2c2/0x310
> [    6.398742]        proc_reg_read+0x47/0xa0
> [    6.399265]        vfs_read+0x101/0x340
> [    6.399751]        __x64_sys_pread64+0x5d/0xa0
> [    6.400314]        do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90
> [    6.400778]        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> [    6.401390]
> [    6.401390] -> #0 (vmcore_cb_rwsem){.+.+}-{3:3}:
> [    6.402063]        validate_chain+0x9f4/0x2670
> [    6.402560]        __lock_acquire+0x8f7/0xbc0
> [    6.403054]        lock_acquire+0xc3/0x1a0
> [    6.403509]        down_read+0x4a/0x140
> [    6.403948]        mmap_vmcore+0x340/0x580
> [    6.404403]        proc_reg_mmap+0x3e/0x90
> [    6.404866]        mmap_region+0x504/0x880
> [    6.405322]        do_mmap+0x38a/0x520
> [    6.405744]        vm_mmap_pgoff+0xc1/0x150
> [    6.406258]        ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x178/0x200
> [    6.406823]        do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90
> [    6.407339]        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> [    6.407975]
> [    6.407975] other info that might help us debug this:
> [    6.407975]
> [    6.408945]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
> [    6.408945]
> [    6.409684]        CPU0                    CPU1
> [    6.410196]        ----                    ----
> [    6.410703]   lock(&mm->mmap_lock#2);
> [    6.411121]                                lock(vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> [    6.411792]                                lock(&mm->mmap_lock#2);
> [    6.412465]   lock(vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> [    6.412873]
> [    6.412873]  *** DEADLOCK ***
> [    6.412873]
> [    6.413522] 1 lock held by makedumpfile/542:
> [    6.414006]  #0: ffff8880af226438 (&mm->mmap_lock#2){++++}-{3:3}, at: vm_mmap_pgoff+0x84/0x150
> [    6.414944]
> [    6.414944] stack backtrace:
> [    6.415432] CPU: 0 PID: 542 Comm: makedumpfile Not tainted 5.17.0-0.rc0.20220117git0c947b893d69.68.test.fc36.x86_64 #1
> [    6.416581] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011
> [    6.417272] Call Trace:
> [    6.417593]  <TASK>
> [    6.417882]  dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x78
> [    6.418346]  print_circular_bug+0x5d7/0x5f0
> [    6.418821]  ? stack_trace_save+0x3a/0x50
> [    6.419273]  ? save_trace+0x3d/0x330
> [    6.419681]  check_noncircular+0xd1/0xe0
> [    6.420217]  validate_chain+0x9f4/0x2670
> [    6.420715]  ? __lock_acquire+0x8f7/0xbc0
> [    6.421234]  ? __lock_acquire+0x8f7/0xbc0
> [    6.421685]  __lock_acquire+0x8f7/0xbc0
> [    6.422127]  lock_acquire+0xc3/0x1a0
> [    6.422535]  ? mmap_vmcore+0x340/0x580
> [    6.422965]  ? lock_is_held_type+0xe2/0x140
> [    6.423432]  ? mmap_vmcore+0x340/0x580
> [    6.423893]  down_read+0x4a/0x140
> [    6.424321]  ? mmap_vmcore+0x340/0x580
> [    6.424800]  mmap_vmcore+0x340/0x580
> [    6.425237]  ? vm_area_alloc+0x1c/0x60
> [    6.425661]  ? trace_kmem_cache_alloc+0x30/0xe0
> [    6.426174]  ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x1e0/0x2f0
> [    6.426641]  proc_reg_mmap+0x3e/0x90
> [    6.427052]  mmap_region+0x504/0x880
> [    6.427462]  do_mmap+0x38a/0x520
> [    6.427842]  vm_mmap_pgoff+0xc1/0x150
> [    6.428260]  ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x178/0x200
> [    6.428701]  do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90
> [    6.429126]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> [    6.429745] RIP: 0033:0x7fc7359b8fc7
> [    6.430157] Code: 00 00 00 89 ef e8 69 b3 ff ff eb e4 e8 c2 64 01 00 66 90 f3 0f 1e fa 41 89 ca 41 f7 c1 ff 0f 00 00 75 10 b8 09 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 21 c3 48 8b 05 21 7e 0e 00 64 c7 00 16 00 00
> [    6.432147] RSP: 002b:00007fff35b4c208 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
> [    6.432970] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 00007fc7359b8fc7
> [    6.433746] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000400000 RDI: 0000000000000000
> [    6.434529] RBP: 000055a1125ecf10 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000002000
> [    6.435310] R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000002000
> [    6.436093] R13: 0000000000400000 R14: 000055a1124269e2 R15: 0000000000000000
> [    6.436887]  </TASK>
> 
> Reported-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck at kernel.org>
> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Based on next-20220118
> 
> ---
>  fs/proc/vmcore.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> index 702754dd1daf..edeb01dfe05d 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> @@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ core_param(novmcoredd, vmcoredd_disabled, bool, 0);
>  /* Device Dump Size */
>  static size_t vmcoredd_orig_sz;
>  
> -static DECLARE_RWSEM(vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(vmcore_cb_lock);
> +DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(vmcore_cb_srcu);
>  /* List of registered vmcore callbacks. */
>  static LIST_HEAD(vmcore_cb_list);
>  /* Whether the vmcore has been opened once. */
> @@ -70,8 +71,8 @@ static bool vmcore_opened;
>  
>  void register_vmcore_cb(struct vmcore_cb *cb)
>  {
> -	down_write(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cb->next);
> +	spin_lock(&vmcore_cb_lock);
>  	list_add_tail(&cb->next, &vmcore_cb_list);
>  	/*
>  	 * Registering a vmcore callback after the vmcore was opened is
> @@ -79,14 +80,14 @@ void register_vmcore_cb(struct vmcore_cb *cb)
>  	 */
>  	if (vmcore_opened)
>  		pr_warn_once("Unexpected vmcore callback registration\n");
> -	up_write(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> +	spin_unlock(&vmcore_cb_lock);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_vmcore_cb);
>  
>  void unregister_vmcore_cb(struct vmcore_cb *cb)
>  {
> -	down_write(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> -	list_del(&cb->next);
> +	spin_lock(&vmcore_cb_lock);
> +	list_del_rcu(&cb->next);
>  	/*
>  	 * Unregistering a vmcore callback after the vmcore was opened is
>  	 * very unusual (e.g., forced driver removal), but we cannot stop
> @@ -94,7 +95,9 @@ void unregister_vmcore_cb(struct vmcore_cb *cb)
>  	 */
>  	if (vmcore_opened)
>  		pr_warn_once("Unexpected vmcore callback unregistration\n");
> -	up_write(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> +	spin_unlock(&vmcore_cb_lock);
> +
> +	synchronize_srcu(&vmcore_cb_srcu);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_vmcore_cb);
>  
> @@ -103,9 +106,8 @@ static bool pfn_is_ram(unsigned long pfn)
>  	struct vmcore_cb *cb;
>  	bool ret = true;
>  
> -	lockdep_assert_held_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> -
> -	list_for_each_entry(cb, &vmcore_cb_list, next) {
> +	list_for_each_entry_srcu(cb, &vmcore_cb_list, next,
> +				 srcu_read_lock_held(&vmcore_cb_srcu)) {
>  		if (unlikely(!cb->pfn_is_ram))
>  			continue;
>  		ret = cb->pfn_is_ram(cb, pfn);
> @@ -118,9 +120,9 @@ static bool pfn_is_ram(unsigned long pfn)
>  
>  static int open_vmcore(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  {
> -	down_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> +	spin_lock(&vmcore_cb_lock);
>  	vmcore_opened = true;
> -	up_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> +	spin_unlock(&vmcore_cb_lock);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -133,6 +135,7 @@ ssize_t read_from_oldmem(char *buf, size_t count,
>  	unsigned long pfn, offset;
>  	size_t nr_bytes;
>  	ssize_t read = 0, tmp;
> +	int idx;
>  
>  	if (!count)
>  		return 0;
> @@ -140,7 +143,7 @@ ssize_t read_from_oldmem(char *buf, size_t count,
>  	offset = (unsigned long)(*ppos % PAGE_SIZE);
>  	pfn = (unsigned long)(*ppos / PAGE_SIZE);
>  
> -	down_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> +	idx = srcu_read_lock(&vmcore_cb_srcu);
>  	do {
>  		if (count > (PAGE_SIZE - offset))
>  			nr_bytes = PAGE_SIZE - offset;
> @@ -165,7 +168,7 @@ ssize_t read_from_oldmem(char *buf, size_t count,
>  						       offset, userbuf);
>  		}
>  		if (tmp < 0) {
> -			up_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> +			srcu_read_unlock(&vmcore_cb_srcu, idx);
>  			return tmp;
>  		}
>  
> @@ -176,8 +179,8 @@ ssize_t read_from_oldmem(char *buf, size_t count,
>  		++pfn;
>  		offset = 0;
>  	} while (count);
> +	srcu_read_unlock(&vmcore_cb_srcu, idx);
>  
> -	up_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
>  	return read;
>  }
>  
> @@ -568,18 +571,18 @@ static int vmcore_remap_oldmem_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  			    unsigned long from, unsigned long pfn,
>  			    unsigned long size, pgprot_t prot)
>  {
> -	int ret;
> +	int ret, idx;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * Check if oldmem_pfn_is_ram was registered to avoid
> -	 * looping over all pages without a reason.
> +	 * Check if a callback was registered to avoid looping over all
> +	 * pages without a reason.
>  	 */
> -	down_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> +	idx = srcu_read_lock(&vmcore_cb_srcu);
>  	if (!list_empty(&vmcore_cb_list))
>  		ret = remap_oldmem_pfn_checked(vma, from, pfn, size, prot);
>  	else
>  		ret = remap_oldmem_pfn_range(vma, from, pfn, size, prot);
> -	up_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
> +	srcu_read_unlock(&vmcore_cb_srcu, idx);
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 



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