linux-kernel - [PATCH] vfs: fix RCU-lockdep false positive due to /proc access

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Message-ID: <20100511172356.GA11103@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 May 2010 10:23:56 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, mingo@...e.hu, miles.lane@...il.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH] vfs: fix RCU-lockdep false positive due to /proc access

If a single-threaded process does a file-descriptor operation, and
some other process accesses that same file descriptor via /proc,
the current rcu_dereference_check_fdtable() can give a false-positive
RCU-lockdep splat due to the reference count being increased by the
/proc access after the reference-count check in fget_light() but before
the check in rcu_dereference_check_fdtable().

This commit prevents this false positive by checking for a single-threaded
process.  To avoid #include hell, this commit uses the wrapper for
thread_group_empty(current) defined by rcu_my_thread_group_empty()
provided in a separate commit.

Located-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>
Located-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
---
 fdtable.h |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fdtable.h b/include/linux/fdtable.h
index 013dc52..d147461 100644
--- a/include/linux/fdtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/fdtable.h
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ struct files_struct {
 	(rcu_dereference_check((fdtfd), \
 			       rcu_read_lock_held() || \
 			       lockdep_is_held(&(files)->file_lock) || \
-			       atomic_read(&(files)->count) == 1))
+			       atomic_read(&(files)->count) == 1 || \
+			       rcu_my_thread_group_empty()))

 #define files_fdtable(files) \
 		(rcu_dereference_check_fdtable((files), (files)->fdt))
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