[PATCH V5] kdb: Fix the deadlock issue in KDB debugging.

liu.yec
2024-03-23T01:42:39Z

From: LiuYe <liu.yeC@h3c.com>

Currently, if CONFIG_KDB_KEYBOARD is enabled, then kgdboc will
attempt to use schedule_work() to provoke a keyboard reset when
transitioning out of the debugger and back to normal operation.
This can cause deadlock because schedule_work() is not NMI-safe.

The stack trace below shows an example of the problem. In this
case the master cpu is not running from NMI but it has parked
the slave CPUs using an NMI and the parked CPUs is holding
spinlocks needed by schedule_work().

example:
BUG: spinlock lockup suspected on CPU#0, namex/10450
lock: 0xffff881ffe823980, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: namexx/21888, .owner_cpu: 1
ffff881741d00000 ffff881741c01000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
ffff881740f58e78 ffff881741cffdd0 ffffffff8147a7fc ffff881740f58f20
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81479e6d>] ? __schedule+0x16d/0xac0
[<ffffffff8147a7fc>] ? schedule+0x3c/0x90
[<ffffffff8147e71a>] ? schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock+0x10a/0x120
[<ffffffff8147d22e>] ? mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff811c839b>] ? ep_scan_ready_list+0x1db/0x1e0
[<ffffffff8147e743>] ? schedule_hrtimeout_range+0x13/0x20
[<ffffffff811c864a>] ? ep_poll+0x27a/0x3b0
[<ffffffff8108c540>] ? wake_up_q+0x70/0x70
[<ffffffff811c99a8>] ? SyS_epoll_wait+0xb8/0xd0
[<ffffffff8147f296>] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x75
CPU: 0 PID: 10450 Comm: namex Tainted: G O 4.4.65 #1
Hardware name: Insyde Purley/Type2 - Board Product Name1, BIOS 05.21.51.0036 07/19/2019
0000000000000000 ffff881ffe813c10 ffffffff8124e883 ffff881741c01000
ffff881ffe823980 ffff881ffe813c38 ffffffff810a7f7f ffff881ffe823980
000000007d2b7cd0 0000000000000001 ffff881ffe813c68 ffffffff810a80e0
Call Trace:
<#DB> [<ffffffff8124e883>] dump_stack+0x85/0xc2
[<ffffffff810a7f7f>] spin_dump+0x7f/0x100
[<ffffffff810a80e0>] do_raw_spin_lock+0xa0/0x150
[<ffffffff8147eb55>] _raw_spin_lock+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffff8108c256>] try_to_wake_up+0x176/0x3d0
[<ffffffff8108c4c5>] wake_up_process+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffff8107b371>] insert_work+0x81/0xc0
[<ffffffff8107b4e5>] __queue_work+0x135/0x390
[<ffffffff8107b786>] queue_work_on+0x46/0x90
[<ffffffff81313d28>] kgdboc_post_exp_handler+0x48/0x70
[<ffffffff810ed488>] kgdb_cpu_enter+0x598/0x610
[<ffffffff810ed6e2>] kgdb_handle_exception+0xf2/0x1f0
[<ffffffff81054e21>] __kgdb_notify+0x71/0xd0
[<ffffffff81054eb5>] kgdb_notify+0x35/0x70
[<ffffffff81082e6a>] notifier_call_chain+0x4a/0x70
[<ffffffff8108304d>] notify_die+0x3d/0x50
[<ffffffff81017219>] do_int3+0x89/0x120
[<ffffffff81480fb4>] int3+0x44/0x80

Just need to postpone schedule_work to the slave CPU exiting the NMI context.

irq_work will only respond to handle schedule_work after exiting the current interrupt context.

When the master CPU exits the interrupt context, other CPUs will naturally exit the NMI context, so there will be no deadlock.

It is the call to input_register_handler() that forces us not to do the work from irq_work's hardirq callback.

Therefore schedule another work in the irq_work and not do the job directly.

Signed-off-by: LiuYe <liu.yeC@h3c.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

---
V4 -> V5: Answer why schedule another work in the irq_work and not do the job directly.
V3 -> V4: Add changelogs
V2 -> V3: Add description information
V1 -> V2: using irq_work to solve this properly.
---
---
drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c b/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
index 7ce7bb164..161b25ecc 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <linux/serial_core.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>

#define MAX_CONFIG_LEN 40

@@ -99,10 +100,17 @@ static void kgdboc_restore_input_helper(struct work_struct *dummy)

static DECLARE_WORK(kgdboc_restore_input_work, kgdboc_restore_input_helper);

+static void kgdboc_queue_restore_input_helper(struct irq_work *unused)
+{
+ schedule_work(&kgdboc_restore_input_work);
+}
+
+static DEFINE_IRQ_WORK(kgdboc_restore_input_irq_work, kgdboc_queue_restore_input_helper);
+
static void kgdboc_restore_input(void)
{
if (likely(system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING))
- schedule_work(&kgdboc_restore_input_work);
+ irq_work_queue(&kgdboc_restore_input_irq_work);
}

static int kgdboc_register_kbd(char **cptr)
@@ -133,6 +141,7 @@ static void kgdboc_unregister_kbd(void)
i--;
}
}
+ irq_work_sync(&kgdboc_restore_input_irq_work);
flush_work(&kgdboc_restore_input_work);
}
#else /* ! CONFIG_KDB_KEYBOARD */
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