From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@nvidia.com>,
Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>,
Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>,
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>,
Drew Fustini <dfustini@baylibre.com>,
Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>, Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
patches@lists.linux.dev, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] fs/resctrl: Fix deadlock for errors during mount
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 11:21:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260508182143.14592-4-tony.luck@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260508182143.14592-1-tony.luck@intel.com>
From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Sashiko noticed[1] a deadlock in the resctrl mount code.
rdt_get_tree() acquires rdtgroup_mutex before calling kernfs_get_tree(). If
superblock setup fails inside kernfs_get_tree(), the VFS calls kill_sb on
the same thread before the call returns. rdt_kill_sb() unconditionally
attempts to acquire rdtgroup_mutex and deadlock occurs.
Move the call to kernfs_get_tree() outside of locks.
Add resctrl_unmount() helper to keep code consistent between the
rdt_get_tree() failure path and a normal unmount.
If kernfs_get_tree() fails and ctx->kfc.new_sb_created is set, then rdt_kill_sb()
has already been called and no further cleanup is needed.
Fixes: 5ff193fbde20 ("x86/intel_rdt: Add basic resctrl filesystem support")
Co-developed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260429184858.36423-1-tony.luck%40intel.com [1]
---
fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c b/fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
index 0db1a92aefbe..62e1e4c30f78 100644
--- a/fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
+++ b/fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
@@ -2970,6 +2970,29 @@ static void resctrl_fs_teardown(void)
rdtgroup_destroy_root();
}
+static void resctrl_unmount(void)
+{
+ struct rdt_resource *r;
+
+ cpus_read_lock();
+ mutex_lock(&rdtgroup_mutex);
+
+ rdt_disable_ctx();
+
+ /* Put everything back to default values. */
+ for_each_alloc_capable_rdt_resource(r)
+ resctrl_arch_reset_all_ctrls(r);
+
+ resctrl_fs_teardown();
+ if (resctrl_arch_alloc_capable())
+ resctrl_arch_disable_alloc();
+ if (resctrl_arch_mon_capable())
+ resctrl_arch_disable_mon();
+ resctrl_mounted = false;
+ mutex_unlock(&rdtgroup_mutex);
+ cpus_read_unlock();
+}
+
static int rdt_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
{
struct rdt_fs_context *ctx = rdt_fc2context(fc);
@@ -3043,10 +3066,6 @@ static int rdt_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
if (ret)
goto out_mondata;
- ret = kernfs_get_tree(fc);
- if (ret < 0)
- goto out_psl;
-
if (resctrl_arch_alloc_capable())
resctrl_arch_enable_alloc();
if (resctrl_arch_mon_capable())
@@ -3062,10 +3081,19 @@ static int rdt_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
RESCTRL_PICK_ANY_CPU);
}
- goto out;
+ rdt_last_cmd_clear();
+ mutex_unlock(&rdtgroup_mutex);
+ cpus_read_unlock();
+
+ ret = kernfs_get_tree(fc);
+ /*
+ * resctrl can only be mounted once, new superblock only expected
+ * to be created once.
+ */
+ if (!ctx->kfc.new_sb_created)
+ resctrl_unmount();
+ return ret;
-out_psl:
- rdt_pseudo_lock_release();
out_mondata:
if (resctrl_arch_mon_capable()) {
mon_put_kn_priv();
@@ -3086,7 +3114,6 @@ static int rdt_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
out_root:
rdtgroup_destroy_root();
out:
- rdt_last_cmd_clear();
mutex_unlock(&rdtgroup_mutex);
cpus_read_unlock();
return ret;
@@ -3173,26 +3200,8 @@ static int rdt_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
static void rdt_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
{
- struct rdt_resource *r;
-
- cpus_read_lock();
- mutex_lock(&rdtgroup_mutex);
-
- rdt_disable_ctx();
-
- /* Put everything back to default values. */
- for_each_alloc_capable_rdt_resource(r)
- resctrl_arch_reset_all_ctrls(r);
-
- resctrl_fs_teardown();
- if (resctrl_arch_alloc_capable())
- resctrl_arch_disable_alloc();
- if (resctrl_arch_mon_capable())
- resctrl_arch_disable_mon();
- resctrl_mounted = false;
+ resctrl_unmount();
kernfs_kill_sb(sb);
- mutex_unlock(&rdtgroup_mutex);
- cpus_read_unlock();
}
static struct file_system_type rdt_fs_type = {
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-08 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-08 18:21 [PATCH 0/4] fs/resctrl: Fix three long-standing issues Tony Luck
2026-05-08 18:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] fs/resctrl: Move functions to avoid forward references in subsequent fixes Tony Luck
2026-05-08 18:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] fs/resctrl: Free mon_data structures on rdt_get_tree() failure Tony Luck
2026-05-08 21:36 ` Luck, Tony
2026-05-09 12:43 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-05-11 3:15 ` Luck, Tony
2026-05-08 18:21 ` Tony Luck [this message]
2026-05-10 13:52 ` [PATCH 3/4] fs/resctrl: Fix deadlock for errors during mount Chen, Yu C
2026-05-08 18:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] fs/resctrl: Fix issues with worker threads when CPUs are taken offline Tony Luck
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