tty/serial: do not free trasnmit buffer page under port lock
authorSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 04:58:39 +0000 (13:58 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 08:37:04 +0000 (09:37 +0100)
commit035438452f85412438be0f6b4dae88b32353cfac
treebf0a5a5c3310fd869f4f49d872d5163f5db5bb08
parent6b337c5918639adddd7fda40dab7ebe2506783d2
tty/serial: do not free trasnmit buffer page under port lock

[ Upstream commit d72402145ace0697a6a9e8e75a3de5bf3375f78d ]

LKP has hit yet another circular locking dependency between uart
console drivers and debugobjects [1]:

     CPU0                                    CPU1

                                            rhltable_init()
                                             __init_work()
                                              debug_object_init
     uart_shutdown()                          /* db->lock */
      /* uart_port->lock */                    debug_print_object()
       free_page()                              printk()
                                                 call_console_drivers()
        debug_check_no_obj_freed()                /* uart_port->lock */
         /* db->lock */
          debug_print_object()

So there are two dependency chains:
uart_port->lock -> db->lock
And
db->lock -> uart_port->lock

This particular circular locking dependency can be addressed in several
ways:

a) One way would be to move debug_print_object() out of db->lock scope
   and, thus, break the db->lock -> uart_port->lock chain.
b) Another one would be to free() transmit buffer page out of db->lock
   in UART code; which is what this patch does.

It makes sense to apply a) and b) independently: there are too many things
going on behind free(), none of which depend on uart_port->lock.

The patch fixes transmit buffer page free() in uart_shutdown() and,
additionally, in uart_port_startup() (as was suggested by Dmitry Safonov).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181211091154.GL23332@shao2-debian/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c