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authorBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>2021-06-19 01:01:09 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-07-14 16:55:56 +0200
commit963baea02dddc341febacc18a2e719aedbdb9c65 (patch)
tree000a7acbf9ae68799483376e905db85462a3dd49 /kernel
parent93cc59d8d0fa94e3f05d22cea1c139422ee61424 (diff)
lockding/lockdep: Avoid to find wrong lock dep path in check_irq_usage()
[ Upstream commit 7b1f8c6179769af6ffa055e1169610b51d71edd5 ] In the step #3 of check_irq_usage(), we seach backwards to find a lock whose usage conflicts the usage of @target_entry1 on safe/unsafe. However, we should only keep the irq-unsafe usage of @target_entry1 into consideration, because it could be a case where a lock is hardirq-unsafe but soft-safe, and in check_irq_usage() we find it because its hardirq-unsafe could result into a hardirq-safe-unsafe deadlock, but currently since we don't filter out the other usage bits, so we may find a lock dependency path softirq-unsafe -> softirq-safe, which in fact doesn't cause a deadlock. And this may cause misleading lockdep splats. Fix this by only keeping LOCKF_ENABLED_IRQ_ALL bits when we try the backwards search. Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210618170110.3699115-4-boqun.feng@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/lockdep.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 78b51b8ad4f6..788629c06ce9 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -2764,8 +2764,18 @@ static int check_irq_usage(struct task_struct *curr, struct held_lock *prev,
* Step 3: we found a bad match! Now retrieve a lock from the backward
* list whose usage mask matches the exclusive usage mask from the
* lock found on the forward list.
+ *
+ * Note, we should only keep the LOCKF_ENABLED_IRQ_ALL bits, considering
+ * the follow case:
+ *
+ * When trying to add A -> B to the graph, we find that there is a
+ * hardirq-safe L, that L -> ... -> A, and another hardirq-unsafe M,
+ * that B -> ... -> M. However M is **softirq-safe**, if we use exact
+ * invert bits of M's usage_mask, we will find another lock N that is
+ * **softirq-unsafe** and N -> ... -> A, however N -> .. -> M will not
+ * cause a inversion deadlock.
*/
- backward_mask = original_mask(target_entry1->class->usage_mask);
+ backward_mask = original_mask(target_entry1->class->usage_mask & LOCKF_ENABLED_IRQ_ALL);
ret = find_usage_backwards(&this, backward_mask, &target_entry);
if (bfs_error(ret)) {