linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix crash_kexec

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Date:	Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:40:53 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix crash_kexec - smp_send_stop race in panic

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 04:34:09PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
> 
> After the discussion with Eric and Vivek the following patch
> seems to be a good solution to me. Could you accept this patch?
> 
> When two CPUs call panic at the same time there is a
> possible race condition that can stop kdump. The first
> CPU calls crash_kexec() and the second CPU calls
> smp_send_stop() in panic() before crash_kexec() finished
> on the first CPU. So the second CPU stops the first CPU
> and therefore kdump fails:
> 
> 1st CPU:
> panic()->crash_kexec()->mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)-> do kdump
> 
> 2nd CPU:
> panic()->crash_kexec()->kexec_mutex already held by 1st CPU
>        ->smp_send_stop()-> stop 1st CPU (stop kdump)
> 
> This patch fixes the problem by introducing a spinlock in
> panic that allows only one CPU to process crash_kexec() and
> the subsequent panic code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Sounds reasonable to me.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>

Thanks
Vivek

> ---
>  kernel/panic.c |    8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/kernel/panic.c
> +++ b/kernel/panic.c
> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_blink);
>   */
>  NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
>  {
> +	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(panic_lock);
>  	static char buf[1024];
>  	va_list args;
>  	long i, i_next = 0;
> @@ -82,6 +83,13 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt,
>  #endif
>  
>  	/*
> +	 * Only one CPU is allowed to execute the panic code from here. For
> +	 * multiple parallel invocations of panic all other CPUs will wait on
> +	 * the panic_lock. They are stopped afterwards by smp_send_stop().
> +	 */
> +	spin_lock(&panic_lock);
> +
> +	/*
>  	 * If we have crashed and we have a crash kernel loaded let it handle
>  	 * everything else.
>  	 * Do we want to call this before we try to display a message?
> 
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