[PATCH 4.9 184/223] um: Silence lockdep complaint about mmap_sem

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02T09:52:04Z

[ Upstream commit 80bf6ceaf9310b3f61934c69b382d4912deee049 ]

When we get into activate_mm(), lockdep complains that we're doing
something strange:

WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
5.1.0-10252-gb00152307319-dirty #121 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
inside.sh/366 is trying to acquire lock:
(____ptrval____) (&(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: flush_old_exec+0x703/0x8d7

but task is already holding lock:
(____ptrval____) (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: flush_old_exec+0x6c5/0x8d7

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}:
[...]
__lock_acquire+0x12ab/0x139f
lock_acquire+0x155/0x18e
down_write+0x3f/0x98
flush_old_exec+0x748/0x8d7
load_elf_binary+0x2ca/0xddb
[...]

-> #0 (&(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock){+.+.}:
[...]
__lock_acquire+0x12ab/0x139f
lock_acquire+0x155/0x18e
_raw_spin_lock+0x30/0x83
flush_old_exec+0x703/0x8d7
load_elf_binary+0x2ca/0xddb
[...]

other info that might help us debug this:

Possible unsafe locking scenario:

CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
lock(&(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock);
lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
lock(&(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock);

*** DEADLOCK ***

2 locks held by inside.sh/366:
#0: (____ptrval____) (&sig->cred_guard_mutex){+.+.}, at: __do_execve_file+0x12d/0x869
#1: (____ptrval____) (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: flush_old_exec+0x6c5/0x8d7

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 366 Comm: inside.sh Not tainted 5.1.0-10252-gb00152307319-dirty #121
Stack:
[...]
Call Trace:
[<600420de>] show_stack+0x13b/0x155
[<6048906b>] dump_stack+0x2a/0x2c
[<6009ae64>] print_circular_bug+0x332/0x343
[<6009c5c6>] check_prev_add+0x669/0xdad
[<600a06b4>] __lock_acquire+0x12ab/0x139f
[<6009f3d0>] lock_acquire+0x155/0x18e
[<604a07e0>] _raw_spin_lock+0x30/0x83
[<60151e6a>] flush_old_exec+0x703/0x8d7
[<601a8eb8>] load_elf_binary+0x2ca/0xddb
[...]

I think it's because in exec_mmap() we have

down_read(&old_mm->mmap_sem);
...
task_lock(tsk);
...
activate_mm(active_mm, mm);
(which does down_write(&mm->mmap_sem))

I'm not really sure why lockdep throws in the whole knowledge
about the task lock, but it seems that old_mm and mm shouldn't
ever be the same (and it doesn't deadlock) so tell lockdep that
they're different.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/um/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/um/include/asm/mmu_context.h
index 1a60e1328e2f..6aca4c90aa1a 100644
--- a/arch/um/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static inline void activate_mm(struct mm_struct *old, struct mm_struct *new)
* when the new ->mm is used for the first time.
*/
__switch_mm(&new->context.id);
- down_write(&new->mmap_sem);
+ down_write_nested(&new->mmap_sem, 1);
uml_setup_stubs(new);
up_write(&new->mmap_sem);
}
--
2.20.1