Re: [RFC NEXT] mm: Fix suspicious RCU usage at kernel/sched/core.c:7318

Catalin Marinas
2015-06-16T08:44:30Z

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:25:18PM +0100, Larry Finger wrote:
> Beginning at commit d52d399, the following INFO splat is logged:
>
> [ 2.816564] ===============================
> [ 2.816986] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
> [ 2.817402] 4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1 Not tainted
> [ 2.817881] -------------------------------
> [ 2.818297] kernel/sched/core.c:7318 Illegal context switch in RCU-bh read-side critical section!
> [ 2.819180]
> other info that might help us debug this:
>
> [ 2.819947]
> rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
> [ 2.820578] 3 locks held by systemd/1:
> [ 2.820954] #0: (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff815f0c8f>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1f/0x40
> [ 2.821855] #1: (rcu_read_lock_bh){......}, at: [<ffffffff816a34e2>] ipv6_add_addr+0x62/0x540
> [ 2.822808] #2: (addrconf_hash_lock){+...+.}, at: [<ffffffff816a3604>] ipv6_add_addr+0x184/0x540
> [ 2.823790]
> stack backtrace:
> [ 2.824212] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1
> [ 2.824932] Hardware name: TOSHIBA TECRA A50-A/TECRA A50-A, BIOS Version 4.20 04/17/2014
> [ 2.825751] 0000000000000001 ffff880224e07838 ffffffff817263a4 ffffffff810ccf2a
> [ 2.826560] ffff880224e08000 ffff880224e07868 ffffffff810b6827 0000000000000000
> [ 2.827368] ffffffff81a445d3 00000000000004f4 ffff88022682e100 ffff880224e07898
> [ 2.828177] Call Trace:
> [ 2.828422] [<ffffffff817263a4>] dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e
> [ 2.828937] [<ffffffff810ccf2a>] ? console_unlock+0x1ca/0x510
> [ 2.829514] [<ffffffff810b6827>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe7/0x120
> [ 2.830139] [<ffffffff8108cf05>] ___might_sleep+0x1d5/0x1f0
> [ 2.830699] [<ffffffff8108cf6d>] __might_sleep+0x4d/0x90
> [ 2.831239] [<ffffffff811f3789>] ? create_object+0x39/0x2e0
> [ 2.831800] [<ffffffff811da427>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x47/0x250
> [ 2.832375] [<ffffffff813c19ae>] ? find_next_zero_bit+0x1e/0x20
> [ 2.832973] [<ffffffff811f3789>] create_object+0x39/0x2e0
> [ 2.833515] [<ffffffff810b7eb6>] ? mark_held_locks+0x66/0x90
> [ 2.834089] [<ffffffff8172efab>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4b/0x60
> [ 2.834761] [<ffffffff817193c1>] kmemleak_alloc_percpu+0x61/0xe0
> [ 2.835369] [<ffffffff811a26f0>] pcpu_alloc+0x370/0x630
>
> Additional backtrace lines are truncated. In addition, the above splat is
> followed by several "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
> at mm/slub.c:1268" outputs. As suggested by Martin KaFai Lau, these are the
> clue to the fix. Routine kmemleak_alloc_percpu() always uses GFP_KERNEL
> for its allocations, whereas it should use the value input to pcpu_alloc().
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> ---
> include/linux/kmemleak.h | 3 ++-
> mm/kmemleak.c | 9 +++++----
> mm/kmemleak.c.rej | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> mm/percpu.c | 2 +-

As Kamalesh already pointed out, you added the mm/kmemleak.c.rej file to
this patch.

> diff --git a/include/linux/kmemleak.h b/include/linux/kmemleak.h
> index e705467..ec4437b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kmemleak.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kmemleak.h
> @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
> extern void kmemleak_init(void) __ref;
> extern void kmemleak_alloc(const void *ptr, size_t size, int min_count,
> gfp_t gfp) __ref;
> -extern void kmemleak_alloc_percpu(const void __percpu *ptr, size_t size) __ref;
> +extern void kmemleak_alloc_percpu(const void __percpu *ptr, size_t size,
> + gfp_t gfp) __ref;
> extern void kmemleak_free(const void *ptr) __ref;
> extern void kmemleak_free_part(const void *ptr, size_t size) __ref;
> extern void kmemleak_free_percpu(const void __percpu *ptr) __ref;
> diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
> index ca9e5a5..b5f5129 100644
> --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
> +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
> @@ -930,12 +930,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kmemleak_alloc);
> * kmemleak_alloc_percpu - register a newly allocated __percpu object
> * @ptr: __percpu pointer to beginning of the object
> * @size: size of the object
> + * @gfp: kmalloc() flags used for kmemleak internal memory allocations

Nitpick: since this is triggered by percpu_alloc_gfp(), I would just
remove the "kmalloc()" here.

> *
> * This function is called from the kernel percpu allocator when a new object
> - * (memory block) is allocated (alloc_percpu). It assumes GFP_KERNEL
> - * allocation.
> + * (memory block) is allocated (alloc_percpu).
> */
> -void __ref kmemleak_alloc_percpu(const void __percpu *ptr, size_t size)
> +void __ref kmemleak_alloc_percpu(const void __percpu *ptr, size_t size,
> + gfp_t gfp)
> {
> unsigned int cpu;
>
> @@ -948,7 +949,7 @@ void __ref kmemleak_alloc_percpu(const void __percpu *ptr, size_t size)
> if (kmemleak_enabled && ptr && !IS_ERR(ptr))
> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> create_object((unsigned long)per_cpu_ptr(ptr, cpu),
> - size, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> + size, 0, gfp);
> else if (kmemleak_early_log)
> log_early(KMEMLEAK_ALLOC_PERCPU, ptr, size, 0);
> }
[... mm/kmemleak.c.rej removed ...]
> diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
> index dfd0248..2dd7448 100644
> --- a/mm/percpu.c
> +++ b/mm/percpu.c
> @@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ area_found:
> memset((void *)pcpu_chunk_addr(chunk, cpu, 0) + off, 0, size);
>
> ptr = __addr_to_pcpu_ptr(chunk->base_addr + off);
> - kmemleak_alloc_percpu(ptr, size);
> + kmemleak_alloc_percpu(ptr, size, gfp);
> return ptr;
>
> fail_unlock:

Apart from the minor comment above (and the kmemleak.c.rej file):

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Thanks.