linux-kernel - [PATCH] module: Do a WARN_ON_ONCE() for assert module mutex not held

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:15:50 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] module: Do a WARN_ON_ONCE() for assert module mutex not
 held

When running with lockdep enabled, I triggered the WARN_ON() in the
module code that asserts when module_mutex or rcu_read_lock_sched are
not held. The issue I have is that this can also be called from the
dump_stack() code, causing us to enter an infinite loop...

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e
 Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6
 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14
 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014
  ffff880215e8fa70 ffff880215e8fa70 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000
  ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8fac0 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab
  0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90
  [<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9
  [<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e
 Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6
 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14
 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014
  ffff880215e8f7a0 ffff880215e8f7a0 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000
  ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8f7f0 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab
  0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90
  [<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9
  [<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e
 Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6
 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14
 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014
  ffff880215e8f4d0 ffff880215e8f4d0 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000
  ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8f520 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab
  0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90
  [<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9
  [<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e
[...]

Which gives us rather useless information. Worse yet, there's some race
that causes this, and I seldom trigger it, so I have no idea what
happened.

This would not be an issue if that warning was a WARN_ON_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 5f71aa63ed2a..51c89d86752c 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ static void module_assert_mutex_or_preempt(void)
 	if (unlikely(!debug_locks))
 		return;
 
-	WARN_ON(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() &&
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() &&
 		!lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex));
 #endif
 }