Re: slub/debugobjects: lockup when freeing memory

[Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>]

On 06/20/2014 11:40 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> rcu: Export debug_init_rcu_head() and and debug_init_rcu_head()
> 
> Currently, call_rcu() relies on implicit allocation and initialization
> for the debug-objects handling of RCU callbacks.  If you hammer the
> kernel hard enough with Sasha's modified version of trinity, you can end
> up with the sl*b allocators recursing into themselves via this implicit
> call_rcu() allocation.
> 
> This commit therefore exports the debug_init_rcu_head() and
> debug_rcu_head_free() functions, which permits the allocators to allocated
> and pre-initialize the debug-objects information, so that there no longer
> any need for call_rcu() to do that initialization, which in turn prevents
> the recursion into the memory allocators.
> 
> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Hi Paul,

Oddly enough, I still see the issue in -next (I made sure that this patch
was in the tree):

[  393.810123] =============================================
[  393.810123] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
[  393.810123] 3.16.0-rc4-next-20140711-sasha-00046-g07d3099-dirty #813 Not tainted
[  393.810123] ---------------------------------------------
[  393.810123] trinity-c32/9762 is trying to acquire lock:
[  393.810123] (&(&n->list_lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: get_partial_node.isra.39 (mm/slub.c:1628)
[  393.810123]
[  393.810123] but task is already holding lock:
[  393.810123] (&(&n->list_lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: __kmem_cache_shutdown (mm/slub.c:3210 mm/slub.c:3233 mm/slub.c:3244)
[  393.810123]
[  393.810123] other info that might help us debug this:
[  393.810123]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[  393.810123]
[  393.810123]        CPU0
[  393.810123]        ----
[  393.810123]   lock(&(&n->list_lock)->rlock);
[  393.810123]   lock(&(&n->list_lock)->rlock);
[  393.810123]
[  393.810123]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[  393.810123]
[  393.810123]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation
[  393.810123]
[  393.810123] 5 locks held by trinity-c32/9762:
[  393.810123] #0: (net_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: copy_net_ns (net/core/net_namespace.c:254)
[  393.810123] #1: (cpu_hotplug.lock){++++++}, at: get_online_cpus (kernel/cpu.c:90)
[  393.810123] #2: (mem_hotplug.lock){.+.+.+}, at: get_online_mems (mm/memory_hotplug.c:83)
[  393.810123] #3: (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: kmem_cache_destroy (mm/slab_common.c:344)
[  393.810123] #4: (&(&n->list_lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: __kmem_cache_shutdown (mm/slub.c:3210 mm/slub.c:3233 mm/slub.c:3244)
[  393.810123]
[  393.810123] stack backtrace:
[  393.810123] CPU: 32 PID: 9762 Comm: trinity-c32 Not tainted 3.16.0-rc4-next-20140711-sasha-00046-g07d3099-dirty #813
[  393.843284]  ffff880bc26730e0 0000000000000000 ffffffffb4ae7ff0 ffff880bc26a3848
[  393.843284]  ffffffffb0e47068 ffffffffb4ae7ff0 ffff880bc26a38f0 ffffffffac258586
[  393.843284]  ffff880bc2673e30 000000050000000a ffffffffb444dee0 ffff880bc2673e48
[  393.843284] Call Trace:
[  393.843284] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
[  393.843284] __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1739 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1783 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2115 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3182)
[  393.843284] lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3602)
[  393.843284] ? get_partial_node.isra.39 (mm/slub.c:1628)
[  393.843284] _raw_spin_lock (include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151)
[  393.843284] ? get_partial_node.isra.39 (mm/slub.c:1628)
[  393.843284] get_partial_node.isra.39 (mm/slub.c:1628)
[  393.843284] ? check_irq_usage (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1638)
[  393.843284] ? __slab_alloc (mm/slub.c:2307)
[  393.843284] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check (lib/smp_processor_id.c:63)
[  393.843284] __slab_alloc (mm/slub.c:1730 mm/slub.c:2208 mm/slub.c:2372)
[  393.843284] ? __debug_object_init (lib/debugobjects.c:100 lib/debugobjects.c:312)
[  393.843284] ? kvm_clock_read (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:90 arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c:86)
[  393.843284] ? sched_clock (./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:192 arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c:304)
[  393.843284] kmem_cache_alloc (mm/slub.c:2445 mm/slub.c:2487 mm/slub.c:2492)
[  393.843284] ? debug_smp_processor_id (lib/smp_processor_id.c:57)
[  393.843284] ? __debug_object_init (lib/debugobjects.c:100 lib/debugobjects.c:312)
[  393.843284] ? check_chain_key (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2188)
[  393.843284] __debug_object_init (lib/debugobjects.c:100 lib/debugobjects.c:312)
[  393.843284] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore (include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:160 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:191)
[  393.843284] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check (lib/smp_processor_id.c:63)
[  393.843284] debug_object_init (lib/debugobjects.c:365)
[  393.843284] rcuhead_fixup_activate (kernel/rcu/update.c:260)
[  393.843284] debug_object_activate (lib/debugobjects.c:280 lib/debugobjects.c:439)
[  393.843284] ? preempt_count_sub (kernel/sched/core.c:2600)
[  393.843284] ? slab_cpuup_callback (mm/slub.c:1484)
[  393.843284] __call_rcu (kernel/rcu/rcu.h:76 (discriminator 8) kernel/rcu/tree.c:2665 (discriminator 8))
[  393.843284] ? __kmem_cache_shutdown (mm/slub.c:3210 mm/slub.c:3233 mm/slub.c:3244)
[  393.843284] call_rcu (kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:679)
[  393.843284] discard_slab (mm/slub.c:1522)
[  393.843284] __kmem_cache_shutdown (mm/slub.c:3210 mm/slub.c:3233 mm/slub.c:3244)
[  393.843284] kmem_cache_destroy (mm/slab_common.c:350)
[  393.843284] nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:1569 (discriminator 3))
[  393.843284] nf_conntrack_pernet_exit (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c:558)
[  393.843284] ops_exit_list.isra.1 (net/core/net_namespace.c:135)
[  393.843284] setup_net (net/core/net_namespace.c:180 (discriminator 3))
[  393.843284] copy_net_ns (net/core/net_namespace.c:255)
[  393.843284] create_new_namespaces (kernel/nsproxy.c:95)
[  393.843284] unshare_nsproxy_namespaces (kernel/nsproxy.c:190 (discriminator 4))
[  393.843284] SyS_unshare (kernel/fork.c:1865 kernel/fork.c:1814)
[  393.843284] tracesys (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:542)


Thanks,
Sasha

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