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dump_stack: avoid potential deadlocks
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fri, 5 Feb 2016 23:36:16 +0000 (15:36 -0800)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:45:36 +0000 (15:45 -0500)
[ Upstream commit d7ce36924344ace0dbdc855b1206cacc46b36d45 ]

Some servers experienced fatal deadlocks because of a combination of
bugs, leading to multiple cpus calling dump_stack().

The checksumming bug was fixed in commit 34ae6a1aa054 ("ipv6: update
skb->csum when CE mark is propagated").

The second problem is a faulty locking in dump_stack()

CPU1 runs in process context and calls dump_stack(), grabs dump_lock.

   CPU2 receives a TCP packet under softirq, grabs socket spinlock, and
   call dump_stack() from netdev_rx_csum_fault().

   dump_stack() spins on atomic_cmpxchg(&dump_lock, -1, 2), since
   dump_lock is owned by CPU1

While dumping its stack, CPU1 is interrupted by a softirq, and happens
to process a packet for the TCP socket locked by CPU2.

CPU1 spins forever in spin_lock() : deadlock

Stack trace on CPU1 looked like :

    NMI backtrace for cpu 1
    RIP: _raw_spin_lock+0x25/0x30
    ...
    Call Trace:
      <IRQ>
      tcp_v6_rcv+0x243/0x620
      ip6_input_finish+0x11f/0x330
      ip6_input+0x38/0x40
      ip6_rcv_finish+0x3c/0x90
      ipv6_rcv+0x2a9/0x500
      process_backlog+0x461/0xaa0
      net_rx_action+0x147/0x430
      __do_softirq+0x167/0x2d0
      call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
      do_softirq+0x3f/0x80
      irq_exit+0x6e/0xc0
      smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x35/0x40
      call_function_single_interrupt+0x6a/0x70
      <EOI>
      printk+0x4d/0x4f
      printk_address+0x31/0x33
      print_trace_address+0x33/0x3c
      print_context_stack+0x7f/0x119
      dump_trace+0x26b/0x28e
      show_trace_log_lvl+0x4f/0x5c
      show_stack_log_lvl+0x104/0x113
      show_stack+0x42/0x44
      dump_stack+0x46/0x58
      netdev_rx_csum_fault+0x38/0x3c
      __skb_checksum_complete_head+0x6e/0x80
      __skb_checksum_complete+0x11/0x20
      tcp_rcv_established+0x2bd5/0x2fd0
      tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x13c/0x620
      sk_backlog_rcv+0x15/0x30
      release_sock+0xd2/0x150
      tcp_recvmsg+0x1c1/0xfc0
      inet_recvmsg+0x7d/0x90
      sock_recvmsg+0xaf/0xe0
      ___sys_recvmsg+0x111/0x3b0
      SyS_recvmsg+0x5c/0xb0
      system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Fixes: b58d977432c8 ("dump_stack: serialize the output from dump_stack()")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
lib/dump_stack.c

index 6745c6230db3403629048256968443f51b777655..c30d07e99dba4cc32be6aeb4d353d79058509b4b 100644 (file)
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ static atomic_t dump_lock = ATOMIC_INIT(-1);
 
 asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)
 {
+       unsigned long flags;
        int was_locked;
        int old;
        int cpu;
@@ -33,9 +34,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)
         * Permit this cpu to perform nested stack dumps while serialising
         * against other CPUs
         */
-       preempt_disable();
-
 retry:
+       local_irq_save(flags);
        cpu = smp_processor_id();
        old = atomic_cmpxchg(&dump_lock, -1, cpu);
        if (old == -1) {
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ retry:
        } else if (old == cpu) {
                was_locked = 1;
        } else {
+               local_irq_restore(flags);
                cpu_relax();
                goto retry;
        }
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ retry:
        if (!was_locked)
                atomic_set(&dump_lock, -1);
 
-       preempt_enable();
+       local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 #else
 asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)