printk: fix deadlock when kernel panic
authorMuchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 03:48:23 +0000 (11:48 +0800)
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:57:06 +0000 (13:57 +0100)
printk_safe_flush_on_panic() caused the following deadlock on our
server:

CPU0:                                         CPU1:
panic                                         rcu_dump_cpu_stacks
  kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus                      nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace
    register_nmi_handler(crash_nmi_callback)      printk_safe_flush
                                                    __printk_safe_flush
                                                      raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock)
    // send NMI to other processors
    apic_send_IPI_allbutself(NMI_VECTOR)
                                                        // NMI interrupt, dead loop
                                                        crash_nmi_callback
  printk_safe_flush_on_panic
    printk_safe_flush
      __printk_safe_flush
        // deadlock
        raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock)

DEADLOCK: read_lock is taken on CPU1 and will never get released.

It happens when panic() stops a CPU by NMI while it has been in
the middle of printk_safe_flush().

Handle the lock the same way as logbuf_lock. The printk_safe buffers
are flushed only when both locks can be safely taken. It can avoid
the deadlock _in this particular case_ at expense of losing contents
of printk_safe buffers.

Note: It would actually be safe to re-init the locks when all CPUs were
      stopped by NMI. But it would require passing this information
      from arch-specific code. It is not worth the complexity.
      Especially because logbuf_lock and printk_safe buffers have been
      obsoleted by the lockless ring buffer.

Fixes: cf9b1106c81c ("printk/nmi: flush NMI messages on the system panic")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210210034823.64867-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
kernel/printk/printk_safe.c

index a0e6f746de6c461540ec48c039155667ab1ac28f..2e9e3ed7d63efe675bd65aa39820612efe69e1b2 100644 (file)
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ struct printk_safe_seq_buf {
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct printk_safe_seq_buf, safe_print_seq);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, printk_context);
 
+static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(safe_read_lock);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_NMI
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct printk_safe_seq_buf, nmi_print_seq);
 #endif
@@ -180,8 +182,6 @@ static void report_message_lost(struct printk_safe_seq_buf *s)
  */
 static void __printk_safe_flush(struct irq_work *work)
 {
-       static raw_spinlock_t read_lock =
-               __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_INITIALIZER(read_lock);
        struct printk_safe_seq_buf *s =
                container_of(work, struct printk_safe_seq_buf, work);
        unsigned long flags;
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static void __printk_safe_flush(struct irq_work *work)
         * different CPUs. This is especially important when printing
         * a backtrace.
         */
-       raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock, flags);
+       raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&safe_read_lock, flags);
 
        i = 0;
 more:
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ more:
 
 out:
        report_message_lost(s);
-       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&read_lock, flags);
+       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&safe_read_lock, flags);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -278,6 +278,14 @@ void printk_safe_flush_on_panic(void)
                raw_spin_lock_init(&logbuf_lock);
        }
 
+       if (raw_spin_is_locked(&safe_read_lock)) {
+               if (num_online_cpus() > 1)
+                       return;
+
+               debug_locks_off();
+               raw_spin_lock_init(&safe_read_lock);
+       }
+
        printk_safe_flush();
 }