Re: [PATCH] kernel: locking: rtmutex: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic-context bug in rt_mutex_handle_deadlock()

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 10:35:24AM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
> 
> The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16 are:
> 
> [FUNC] schedule
> kernel/locking/rtmutex.c, 1223: 
> 	schedule in rt_mutex_handle_deadlock
> kernel/locking/rtmutex.c, 1273: 
> 	rt_mutex_handle_deadlock in rt_mutex_slowlock
> kernel/locking/rtmutex.c, 1249: 
> 	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in rt_mutex_slowlock
> 
> To fix the bug, the spinlock is released before schedule() and then acquired again.
> This is found by my static analysis tool (DSAC).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
> ---
>  kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
> index 2823d4163a37..af03e162f812 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
> @@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ __rt_mutex_slowlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
>  }
>  
>  static void rt_mutex_handle_deadlock(int res, int detect_deadlock,
> -				     struct rt_mutex_waiter *w)
> +				     struct rt_mutex_waiter *w, struct rt_mutex *lock)
>  {
>  	/*
>  	 * If the result is not -EDEADLOCK or the caller requested
> @@ -1219,8 +1219,10 @@ static void rt_mutex_handle_deadlock(int res, int detect_deadlock,
>  	 */
>  	rt_mutex_print_deadlock(w);
>  	while (1) {
> +		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
>  		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
>  		schedule();
> +		raw_spin_lock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
>  	}

If you look at the code you will notice that it stops the task and never lets
it continue. Ever.

If we hit this path, it means we are in a deadlock scenario and will not make
any forward progress.

If anything, it should simply be:

	rt_mutex_print_deadlock(w);
+	/* We're not going anywhere, release the wait_lock */
+	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
	while (1) {
		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
		schedule();
	}

-- Steve


>  }
>  
> @@ -1269,7 +1271,7 @@ rt_mutex_slowlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
>  	if (unlikely(ret)) {
>  		__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
>  		remove_waiter(lock, &waiter);
> -		rt_mutex_handle_deadlock(ret, chwalk, &waiter);
> +		rt_mutex_handle_deadlock(ret, chwalk, &waiter, lock);
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> -- 
> 2.17.0