From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e23smtp07.au.ibm.com (e23smtp07.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e23smtp07.au.ibm.com", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D63B2C00CD for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:17:14 +1000 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp07.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:03:15 +1000 Received: from d23relay05.au.ibm.com (d23relay05.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.152]) by d23dlp01.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE7B2CE8052 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:17:11 +1000 (EST) Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (d23av04.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.139]) by d23relay05.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r8570lYW61538506 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:00:47 +1000 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r857HAYH011386 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:17:11 +1000 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix possible deadlock on page fault Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 12:47:02 +0530 Message-Id: <1378365422-25203-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" stack_grow_into/14082 is trying to acquire lock: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [] .might_fault+0x78/0xe0 but task is already holding lock: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [] .do_page_fault+0x24c/0x910 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(&mm->mmap_sem); lock(&mm->mmap_sem); *** DEADLOCK *** May be due to missing lock nesting notation 1 lock held by stack_grow_into/14082: #0: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [] .do_page_fault+0x24c/0x910 stack backtrace: CPU: 21 PID: 14082 Comm: stack_grow_into Not tainted 3.10.0-10.el7.ppc64.debug #1 Call Trace: [c0000003d396b850] [c000000000016e7c] .show_stack+0x7c/0x1f0 (unreliable) [c0000003d396b920] [c000000000813fc8] .dump_stack+0x28/0x3c [c0000003d396b990] [c000000000124b90] .__lock_acquire+0x1640/0x1800 [c0000003d396bab0] [c00000000012570c] .lock_acquire+0xac/0x250 [c0000003d396bb80] [c000000000206d54] .might_fault+0xa4/0xe0 [c0000003d396bbf0] [c0000000007ffe2c] .do_page_fault+0x2ec/0x910 [c0000003d396be30] [c0000000000092e8] handle_page_fault+0x10/0x30 Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V --- arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c index 8726779..dc2902a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ int __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, int trap = TRAP(regs); int is_exec = trap == 0x400; int fault; - int rc = 0; + int rc = 0, store_update; #if !(defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE)) /* @@ -280,6 +280,13 @@ int __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS, 1, regs, address); + /* + * We want to do this outside mmap_sem, because reading code around nip + * can result in fault, which will cause a deadlock when called with + * mmap_sem held + */ + store_update = store_updates_sp(regs); + /* When running in the kernel we expect faults to occur only to * addresses in user space. All other faults represent errors in the * kernel and should generate an OOPS. Unfortunately, in the case of an @@ -346,7 +353,7 @@ retry: * expand the stack rather than segfaulting. */ if (address + 2048 < uregs->gpr[1] - && (!user_mode(regs) || !store_updates_sp(regs))) + && (!user_mode(regs) || !store_update)) goto bad_area; } if (expand_stack(vma, address)) -- 1.8.1.2