nvdimm: Fix firmware activation deadlock scenarios
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tue, 26 Apr 2022 20:23:05 +0000 (13:23 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Jun 2022 08:23:08 +0000 (10:23 +0200)
commit2f97ebc58d5fc83ca1528cd553fa725472ab3ca8
tree6d4a730eb55e02314bf74f60855e91dff09e2be9
parent98342148a8cd242855d7e257f298c966c96dba9f
nvdimm: Fix firmware activation deadlock scenarios

[ Upstream commit e6829d1bd3c4b58296ee9e412f7ed4d6cb390192 ]

Lockdep reports the following deadlock scenarios for CXL root device
power-management, device_prepare(), operations, and device_shutdown()
operations for 'nd_region' devices:

 Chain exists of:
   &nvdimm_region_key --> &nvdimm_bus->reconfig_mutex --> system_transition_mutex

  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
   lock(system_transition_mutex);
                                lock(&nvdimm_bus->reconfig_mutex);
                                lock(system_transition_mutex);
   lock(&nvdimm_region_key);

 Chain exists of:
   &cxl_nvdimm_bridge_key --> acpi_scan_lock --> &cxl_root_key

  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
   lock(&cxl_root_key);
                                lock(acpi_scan_lock);
                                lock(&cxl_root_key);
   lock(&cxl_nvdimm_bridge_key);

These stem from holding nvdimm_bus_lock() over hibernate_quiet_exec()
which walks the entire system device topology taking device_lock() along
the way. The nvdimm_bus_lock() is protecting against unregistration,
multiple simultaneous ops callers, and preventing activate_show() from
racing activate_store(). For the first 2, the lock is redundant.
Unregistration already flushes all ops users, and sysfs already prevents
multiple threads to be active in an ops handler at the same time. For
the last userspace should already be waiting for its last
activate_store() to complete, and does not need activate_show() to flush
the write side, so this lock usage can be deleted in these attributes.

Fixes: 48001ea50d17 ("PM, libnvdimm: Add runtime firmware activation support")
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165074883800.4116052.10737040861825806582.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/nvdimm/core.c