printk: queue wake_up_klogd irq_work only if per-CPU areas are ready
authorSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Tue, 3 Mar 2020 11:30:02 +0000 (20:30 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 2 May 2020 06:48:42 +0000 (08:48 +0200)
commit4a5c9ae67b12f628fdc8f9ffac7e5677d510dd5e
treecc525259ab06a04049385cfdbab3edaf5de77b1b
parent276224b7a1477a5ade09c147c984763c2548cf77
printk: queue wake_up_klogd irq_work only if per-CPU areas are ready

commit ab6f762f0f53162d41497708b33c9a3236d3609e upstream.

printk_deferred(), similarly to printk_safe/printk_nmi, does not
immediately attempt to print a new message on the consoles, avoiding
calls into non-reentrant kernel paths, e.g. scheduler or timekeeping,
which potentially can deadlock the system.

Those printk() flavors, instead, rely on per-CPU flush irq_work to print
messages from safer contexts.  For same reasons (recursive scheduler or
timekeeping calls) printk() uses per-CPU irq_work in order to wake up
user space syslog/kmsg readers.

However, only printk_safe/printk_nmi do make sure that per-CPU areas
have been initialised and that it's safe to modify per-CPU irq_work.
This means that, for instance, should printk_deferred() be invoked "too
early", that is before per-CPU areas are initialised, printk_deferred()
will perform illegal per-CPU access.

Lech Perczak [0] reports that after commit 1b710b1b10ef ("char/random:
silence a lockdep splat with printk()") user-space syslog/kmsg readers
are not able to read new kernel messages.

The reason is printk_deferred() being called too early (as was pointed
out by Petr and John).

Fix printk_deferred() and do not queue per-CPU irq_work before per-CPU
areas are initialized.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aa0732c6-5c4e-8a8b-a1c1-75ebe3dca05b@camlintechnologies.com/
Reported-by: Lech Perczak <l.perczak@camlintechnologies.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/printk.h
init/main.c
kernel/printk/internal.h
kernel/printk/printk.c
kernel/printk/printk_safe.c