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From: Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu@lge.com.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	"Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu@lge.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] panic: move bust_spinlocks(0) after console_flush_on_panic() to avoid deadlocks
Date: Mon,  4 Jun 2018 14:45:57 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1528091179-3015-1-git-send-email-hoeun.ryu@lge.com.com> (raw)

From: Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu@lge.com>

 Many console device drivers hold the uart_port->lock spinlock with irq enabled
(using spin_lock()) while the device drivers are writing characters to their devices,
but the device drivers just try to hold the spin lock (using spin_trylock()) if
"oops_in_progress" is equal or greater than 1 to avoid deadlocks.

 There is a case ocurring a deadlock related to the lock and oops_in_progress. A CPU
could be stopped by smp_send_stop() while it was holding the port lock because irq was
enabled. Once a CPU stops, it doesn't respond interrupts anymore and the lock stays
locked forever.

 console_flush_on_panic() is called during panic() and it eventually holds the uart
lock but the lock is held by another stopped CPU and it is a deadlock. By moving
bust_spinlocks(0) after console_flush_on_panic(), let the console device drivers
think the Oops is still in progress to call spin_trylock() instead of spin_lock() to
avoid the deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu@lge.com>
---
 kernel/panic.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 42e4874..b4063b6 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -233,8 +233,6 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
 	if (_crash_kexec_post_notifiers)
 		__crash_kexec(NULL);
 
-	bust_spinlocks(0);
-
 	/*
 	 * We may have ended up stopping the CPU holding the lock (in
 	 * smp_send_stop()) while still having some valuable data in the console
@@ -246,6 +244,8 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
 	debug_locks_off();
 	console_flush_on_panic();
 
+	bust_spinlocks(0);
+
 	if (!panic_blink)
 		panic_blink = no_blink;
 
-- 
2.1.4

             reply	other threads:[~2018-06-04  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-04  5:45 Hoeun Ryu [this message]
2018-06-05  1:44 ` [PATCH] panic: move bust_spinlocks(0) after console_flush_on_panic() to avoid deadlocks Steven Rostedt
2018-06-05  2:23   ` Hoeun Ryu
2018-06-20 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2018-06-21  1:23   ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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