Potential deadlock in vgic

Jan Glauber jan.glauber at caviumnetworks.com
Tue May 15 04:54:05 PDT 2018


On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 03:29:43PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> On 04/05/18 17:31, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 04:17:40PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> >> Hi Jan,
> >>
> >> can you please test this patch with your setup, to see if it still
> >> screams? That converts two forgotten irq_lock's over to be irqsafe,
> >> plus lets lpi_list_lock join them (which you already did, IIUC).
> >> That should appease lockdep, hopefully.
> > 
> > Hit send too soon, on halting the guest I get:
> 
> So I managed to finally wrap my head around this one.
> I sent out a series [1], and failed Cc:ing you under the assumption that
> Reported-by: would be picked up by git send-email. Apologies for that,
> but you should be able to pick it from one of the lists.
> 
> Can you please confirm that the last two patches fix the splat below for
> you?

Sorry for the late response, I was offline. With all 4 patches applied
both the locking and the RCU warnings are gone.

Thanks for fixing this!

Grüße,
Jan

> Thanks for testing and reporting!
> Andre.
> 
> [1]
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-May/577054.html
> 
> > 
> > [ 1025.694857] =============================
> > [ 1025.694862] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> > [ 1025.694868] 4.17.0-rc3-jang+ #73 Not tainted
> > [ 1025.694873] -----------------------------
> > [ 1025.694880] ./include/linux/kvm_host.h:575 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
> > [ 1025.694884] 
> >                other info that might help us debug this:
> > 
> > [ 1025.694890] 
> >                rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
> > [ 1025.694896] 18 locks held by qemu-system-aar/5540:
> > [ 1025.694901]  #0: 000000005e03488a (&kvm->lock){+.+.}, at: vgic_its_set_attr+0x230/0x388
> > [ 1025.694937]  #1: 000000004b1a3bb5 (&its->its_lock){+.+.}, at: vgic_its_set_attr+0x23c/0x388
> > [ 1025.694965]  #2: 000000003ca8213c (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.694993]  #3: 00000000adb6ae51 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695021]  #4: 0000000000563df7 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695048]  #5: 00000000da16277a (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695076]  #6: 00000000bf36d9aa (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695103]  #7: 00000000607eaa4f (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695130]  #8: 0000000046dadf65 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695157]  #9: 00000000197747b2 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695184]  #10: 00000000e4f1282c (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695211]  #11: 000000007471b896 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695239]  #12: 000000005be54486 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695266]  #13: 000000000f1fa184 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695293]  #14: 0000000093fdb28b (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695396]  #15: 0000000097cc103c (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695426]  #16: 00000000d24dd32e (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695453]  #17: 000000002606c3a7 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xc0
> > [ 1025.695482] 
> >                stack backtrace:
> > [ 1025.695489] CPU: 29 PID: 5540 Comm: qemu-system-aar Not tainted 4.17.0-rc3-jang+ #73
> > [ 1025.695494] Hardware name: To be filled by O.E.M. Saber/To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS 0ACKL018 03/30/2018
> > [ 1025.695499] Call trace:
> > [ 1025.695505]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x160
> > [ 1025.695510]  show_stack+0x24/0x30
> > [ 1025.695517]  dump_stack+0x9c/0xd4
> > [ 1025.695524]  lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xcc/0x118
> > [ 1025.695537]  gfn_to_memslot+0x174/0x190
> > [ 1025.695546]  kvm_read_guest+0x50/0xb0
> > [ 1025.695553]  vgic_its_check_id.isra.0+0x114/0x148
> > [ 1025.695560]  vgic_its_save_tables_v0+0x1a0/0x320
> > [ 1025.695567]  vgic_its_set_attr+0x330/0x388
> > [ 1025.695573]  kvm_device_ioctl_attr+0x9c/0xd8
> > [ 1025.695579]  kvm_device_ioctl+0x8c/0xf8
> > [ 1025.695587]  do_vfs_ioctl+0xc4/0x938
> > [ 1025.695594]  ksys_ioctl+0x8c/0x98
> > [ 1025.695601]  sys_ioctl+0x34/0x48
> > [ 1025.695609]  el0_svc_naked+0x44/0x48
> > 
> > --Jan
> > 



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