Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] lockdep: Change hardirq{s_enabled,_context} to per-cpu variables

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:24:04PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 08:12:32PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Fair enough; I'll rip it all up and boot a KCSAN kernel, see what if
> > anything happens.
> 
> OK, so the below patch doesn't seem to have any nasty recursion issues
> here. The only 'problem' is that lockdep now sees report_lock can cause
> deadlocks.
> 
> It is completely right about it too, but I don't suspect there's much we
> can do about it, it's pretty much the standard printk() with scheduler
> locks held report.

Just for giggles I added the below and that works fine too. Right until
the report_lock deadlock splat of course, thereafter lockdep is
disabled.

diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/report.c b/kernel/kcsan/report.c
index ac5f8345bae9..a011cf0a1611 100644
--- a/kernel/kcsan/report.c
+++ b/kernel/kcsan/report.c
@@ -459,6 +459,8 @@ static void set_other_info_task_blocking(unsigned long *flags,
 	 */
 	int timeout = max(kcsan_udelay_task, kcsan_udelay_interrupt);

+	lockdep_assert_held(&report_lock);
+
 	other_info->task = current;
 	do {
 		if (is_running) {
@@ -495,6 +497,8 @@ static void set_other_info_task_blocking(unsigned long *flags,
 		 other_info->task == current);
 	if (is_running)
 		set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+
+	lockdep_assert_held(&report_lock);
 }

 /* Populate @other_info; requires that the provided @other_info not in use. */