linux-kernel - Re: BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, migration/0/9

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Message-ID: <20150212193210.GA7244@opentech.at>
Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:32:10 +0100
From:	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, waiman.long@...com,
	peterz@...radead.org, raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, migration/0/9

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> On 02/12, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 02/11, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 16:34 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > > Did an earlier-than-usual port of v3.21 patches to post-v3.19, and
> > > > hit the following on x86_64.  This happened after about 15 minutes of
> > > > rcutorture.  In contrast, I have been doing successful 15-hour runs
> > > > on v3.19.  I will check reproducibility and try to narrow it down.
> > > > Might this be a duplicate of the bug that Raghavendra posted a fix for?
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, this was on 3e8c04eb1174 (Merge branch 'for-3.20' of
> > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata).
> > > >
> > > > [  837.287011] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, migration/0/9
> > > > [  837.287013]  lock: 0xffff88001ea0fe80, .magic: ffffffff, .owner:  g?<81>????/0, .owner_cpu: -42
> > > > [  837.287013] CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: migration/0 Not tainted 3.19.0+ #1
> > > > [  837.287013] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
> > > > [  837.287013]  ffff88001ea0fe80 ffff88001ea0bc78 ffffffff818f6f4b ffffffff810a5a51
> > > > [  837.287013]  ffffffff81e500e0 ffff88001ea0bc98 ffffffff818f3755 ffff88001ea0fe80
> > > > [  837.287013]  ffffffff81ca4396 ffff88001ea0bcb8 ffffffff818f377b ffff88001ea0fe80
> > > > [  837.287013] Call Trace:
> > > > [  837.287013]  [<ffffffff818f6f4b>] dump_stack+0x45/0x57
> > > > [  837.287013]  [<ffffffff810a5a51>] ? console_unlock+0x1f1/0x4c0
> > > > [  837.287013]  [<ffffffff818f3755>] spin_dump+0x8b/0x90
> > > > [  837.287013]  [<ffffffff818f377b>] spin_bug+0x21/0x26
> > > > [  837.287013]  [<ffffffff8109923c>] do_raw_spin_unlock+0x5c/0xa0
> > > > [  837.287013]  [<ffffffff81902587>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x27/0x50
> > > > [  837.287013]  [<ffffffff8108f0a1>] complete+0x41/0x50
> > >
> > > We did have some recent changes in completions:
> > >
> > > 7c34e318 (sched/completion: Add lock-free checking of the blocking case)
> > > de30ec47 (sched/completion: Remove unnecessary ->wait.lock serialization when reading completion state)
> > >
> > > The second one being more related (although both appear to make sense).
> > > Perhaps some subtle implication in the completion_done side that
> > > disappeared with the spinlock?
> >
> > At first glance both changes look suspicious.
> 
> No, sorry, only the 2nd one.
> 
> > Unless at least document how
> > you can use these helpers.
> >
> > Consider this code:
> >
> > 	void xxx(void)
> > 	{
> > 		struct completion c;
> >
> > 		init_completion(&c);
> >
> > 		expose_this_completion(&c);
> >
> > 		while (!completion_done(&c)
> > 			schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
> > 	}
> >
> > Before that change this code was correct, now it is not. Hmm and note that
> > this is what stop_machine_from_inactive_cpu() does although I do not know
> > if this is related or not.
> >
> > Because completion_done() can now race with complete(), the final
> > spin_unlock() can write to the memory after it was freed/reused. In this
> > case it can write to the stack after return.
> >
> > Add CC's.
> 
> Nicholas, don't we need something like below?
> 
> Oleg.
> 
> 
> --- x/kernel/sched/completion.c
> +++ x/kernel/sched/completion.c
> @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ bool try_wait_for_completion(struct comp
>  	 * first without taking the lock so we can
>  	 * return early in the blocking case.
>  	 */
> -	if (!ACCESS_ONCE(x->done))
> +	if (!READ_ONCE(x->done))
>  		return 0;
>
from looking at compiler.h I don't think that there would be a difference
between ACCESS_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() in this case - done is an unsigned int
here so it would be a single read instruction on the PPC440 here as well
and would not resort to the barrier protected memcpy.

Is the oops reproducible ? If it is could you drop me a few lines how to trigger 
this ?

thx!
hofrat
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