[PATCH 5.16 0161/1017] pstore: Dont use semaphores in always-atomic-context code

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-05T11:42:42Z

From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>

commit 8126b1c73108bc691f5643df19071a59a69d0bc6 upstream.

pstore_dump() is *always* invoked in atomic context (nowadays in an RCU
read-side critical section, before that under a spinlock).
It doesn't make sense to try to use semaphores here.

This is mostly a revert of commit ea84b580b955 ("pstore: Convert buf_lock
to semaphore"), except that two parts aren't restored back exactly as they
were:

- keep the lock initialization in pstore_register
- in efi_pstore_write(), always set the "block" flag to false
- omit "is_locked", that was unnecessary since
commit 959217c84c27 ("pstore: Actually give up during locking failure")
- fix the bailout message

The actual problem that the buggy commit was trying to address may have
been that the use of preemptible() in efi_pstore_write() was wrong - it
only looks at preempt_count() and the state of IRQs, but __rcu_read_lock()
doesn't touch either of those under CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.
(Sidenote: CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU means that the scheduler can preempt tasks in
RCU read-side critical sections, but you're not allowed to actively
block/reschedule.)

Lockdep probably never caught the problem because it's very rare that you
actually hit the contended case, so lockdep always just sees the
down_trylock(), not the down_interruptible(), and so it can't tell that
there's a problem.

Fixes: ea84b580b955 ("pstore: Convert buf_lock to semaphore")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314185953.2068993-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c | 2 +-
fs/pstore/platform.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------
include/linux/pstore.h | 6 +++---
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ static int efi_pstore_write(struct pstor
efi_name[i] = name[i];

ret = efivar_entry_set_safe(efi_name, vendor, PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES,
- preemptible(), record->size, record->psi->buf);
+ false, record->size, record->psi->buf);

if (record->reason == KMSG_DUMP_OOPS && try_module_get(THIS_MODULE))
if (!schedule_work(&efivar_work))
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -143,21 +143,22 @@ static void pstore_timer_kick(void)
mod_timer(&pstore_timer, jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(pstore_update_ms));
}

-/*
- * Should pstore_dump() wait for a concurrent pstore_dump()? If
- * not, the current pstore_dump() will report a failure to dump
- * and return.
- */
-static bool pstore_cannot_wait(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
+static bool pstore_cannot_block_path(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
{
- /* In NMI path, pstore shouldn't block regardless of reason. */
+ /*
+ * In case of NMI path, pstore shouldn't be blocked
+ * regardless of reason.
+ */
if (in_nmi())
return true;

switch (reason) {
/* In panic case, other cpus are stopped by smp_send_stop(). */
case KMSG_DUMP_PANIC:
- /* Emergency restart shouldn't be blocked. */
+ /*
+ * Emergency restart shouldn't be blocked by spinning on
+ * pstore_info::buf_lock.
+ */
case KMSG_DUMP_EMERG:
return true;
default:
@@ -389,21 +390,19 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dump
unsigned long total = 0;
const char *why;
unsigned int part = 1;
+ unsigned long flags = 0;
int ret;

why = kmsg_dump_reason_str(reason);

- if (down_trylock(&psinfo->buf_lock)) {
- /* Failed to acquire lock: give up if we cannot wait. */
- if (pstore_cannot_wait(reason)) {
- pr_err("dump skipped in %s path: may corrupt error record\n",
- in_nmi() ? "NMI" : why);
- return;
- }
- if (down_interruptible(&psinfo->buf_lock)) {
- pr_err("could not grab semaphore?!\n");
+ if (pstore_cannot_block_path(reason)) {
+ if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags)) {
+ pr_err("dump skipped in %s path because of concurrent dump\n",
+ in_nmi() ? "NMI" : why);
return;
}
+ } else {
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
}

kmsg_dump_rewind(&iter);
@@ -467,8 +466,7 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dump
total += record.size;
part++;
}
-
- up(&psinfo->buf_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
}

static struct kmsg_dumper pstore_dumper = {
@@ -594,7 +592,7 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *
psi->write_user = pstore_write_user_compat;
psinfo = psi;
mutex_init(&psinfo->read_mutex);
- sema_init(&psinfo->buf_lock, 1);
+ spin_lock_init(&psinfo->buf_lock);

if (psi->flags & PSTORE_FLAGS_DMESG)
allocate_buf_for_compression();
--- a/include/linux/pstore.h
+++ b/include/linux/pstore.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/kmsg_dump.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
-#include <linux/semaphore.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/types.h>

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ struct pstore_record {
* @owner: module which is responsible for this backend driver
* @name: name of the backend driver
*
- * @buf_lock: semaphore to serialize access to @buf
+ * @buf_lock: spinlock to serialize access to @buf
* @buf: preallocated crash dump buffer
* @bufsize: size of @buf available for crash dump bytes (must match
* smallest number of bytes available for writing to a
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ struct pstore_info {
struct module *owner;
const char *name;

- struct semaphore buf_lock;
+ spinlock_t buf_lock;
char *buf;
size_t bufsize;