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Message-ID: <613dc158-e3de-f713-019e-cf8c190e72be@acm.org>
Date:   Fri, 16 Jun 2017 07:15:00 -0500
From:   Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
To:     Tony Camuso <tcamuso@...hat.com>,
        openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmi: use rcu lock around call to
 intf->handlers->sender()

On 06/15/2017 10:54 AM, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 06/13/2017 09:54 AM, Tony Camuso wrote:
>> A vendor with a system having more than 128 CPUs occasionally 
>> encounters a
>> crash during shutdown. This is not an easily reproduceable event, but 
>> the
>> vendor was able to provide the following analysis of the crash, which
>> exhibits the same footprint each time.
>>
>> crash> bt
>> PID: 0      TASK: ffff88017c70ce70  CPU: 5   COMMAND: "swapper/5"
>>   #0 [ffff88085c143ac8] machine_kexec at ffffffff81059c8b
>>   #1 [ffff88085c143b28] __crash_kexec at ffffffff811052e2
>>   #2 [ffff88085c143bf8] crash_kexec at ffffffff811053d0
>>   #3 [ffff88085c143c10] oops_end at ffffffff8168ef88
>>   #4 [ffff88085c143c38] no_context at ffffffff8167ebb3
>>   #5 [ffff88085c143c88] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8167ec49
>>   #6 [ffff88085c143cd0] bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8167edb3
>>   #7 [ffff88085c143ce0] __do_page_fault at ffffffff81691d1e
>>   #8 [ffff88085c143d40] do_page_fault at ffffffff81691ec5
>>   #9 [ffff88085c143d70] page_fault at ffffffff8168e188
>>      [exception RIP: unknown or invalid address]
>>      RIP: ffffffffa053c800  RSP: ffff88085c143e28  RFLAGS: 00010206
>>      RAX: ffff88017c72bfd8  RBX: ffff88017a8dc000  RCX: ffff8810588b5ac8
>>      RDX: ffff8810588b5a00  RSI: ffffffffa053c800  RDI: ffff8810588b5a00
>>      RBP: ffff88085c143e58   R8: ffff88017c70d408   R9: ffff88017a8dc000
>>      R10: 0000000000000002  R11: ffff88085c143da0  R12: ffff8810588b5ac8
>>      R13: 0000000000000100  R14: ffffffffa053c800  R15: ffff8810588b5a00
>>      ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
>> --- <IRQ stack> ---
>>      [exception RIP: cpuidle_enter_state+82]
>>      RIP: ffffffff81514192  RSP: ffff88017c72be50  RFLAGS: 00000202
>>      RAX: 0000001e4c3c6f16  RBX: 000000000000f8a0  RCX: 0000000000000018
>>      RDX: 0000000225c17d03  RSI: ffff88017c72bfd8  RDI: 0000001e4c3c6f16
>>      RBP: ffff88017c72be78   R8: 000000000000237e   R9: 0000000000000018
>>      R10: 0000000000002494  R11: 0000000000000001  R12: ffff88017c72be20
>>      R13: ffff88085c14f8e0  R14: 0000000000000082  R15: 0000001e4c3bb400
>>      ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff10  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
>>
>> This is the corresponding stack trace
>>
>> It has crashed because the area pointed with RIP extracted from timer
>> element is already removed during a shutdown process.
>>
>> The function is smi_timeout().
>>
>> And we think ffff8810588b5a00 in RDX is a parameter struct smi_info
>>
>> crash> rd ffff8810588b5a00 20
>> ffff8810588b5a00:  ffff8810588b6000 0000000000000000 .`.X............
>> ffff8810588b5a10:  ffff880853264400 ffffffffa05417e0 .D&S......T.....
>> ffff8810588b5a20:  24a024a000000000 0000000000000000 .....$.$........
>> ffff8810588b5a30:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ................
>> ffff8810588b5a40:  ffffffffa053a040 ffffffffa053a060 @.S.....`.S.....
>> ffff8810588b5a50:  0000000000000000 0000000100000001 ................
>> ffff8810588b5a60:  0000000000000000 0000000000000e00 ................
>> ffff8810588b5a70:  ffffffffa053a580 ffffffffa053a6e0 ..S.......S.....
>> ffff8810588b5a80:  ffffffffa053a4a0 ffffffffa053a250 ..S.....P.S.....
>> ffff8810588b5a90:  0000000500000002 0000000000000000 ................
>>
>> Unfortunately the top of this area is already detroyed by someone.
>> But because of two reasonns we think this is struct smi_info
>>   1) The address included in between  ffff8810588b5a70 and 
>> ffff8810588b5a80:
>>    are inside of ipmi_si_intf.c  see crash> module ffff88085779d2c0
>>
>>   2) We've found the area which point this.
>>    It is offset 0x68 of  ffff880859df4000
>>
>> crash> rd  ffff880859df4000 100
>> ffff880859df4000:  0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ................
>> ffff880859df4010:  ffffffffa0535290 dead000000000200 .RS.............
>> ffff880859df4020:  ffff880859df4020 ffff880859df4020    @.Y.... @.Y....
>> ffff880859df4030:  0000000000000002 0000000000100010 ................
>> ffff880859df4040:  ffff880859df4040 ffff880859df4040 @@.Y....@@.Y....
>> ffff880859df4050:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ................
>> ffff880859df4060:  0000000000000000 ffff8810588b5a00 .........Z.X....
>> ffff880859df4070:  0000000000000001 ffff880859df4078 ........x@......
>>
>>   If we regards it as struct ipmi_smi in shutdown process
>>   it looks consistent.
>>
>> The remedy for this apparent race is affixed below.
>
> I think you are right about this problem, but in_shutdown is checked 
> already
> a bit before when newmsg is extracted from the list.  Wouldn't it be 
> better
> to add the rcu_read_lock() region starting right before the previous
> in_shutdown check to after the send?  That would avoid a leak in this
> case.

While lying awake unable to sleep, I realized that you can't call the
sender function while holding rcu_read_lock().  That will break RT,
because you can't claim a mutex while holding rcu_read_lock(),
and the sender function will claim normal spinlocks.

So I need to think about this a bit.

-corey

>
> Thanks,
>
> -corey
>
>> Signed-off-by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 9 +++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c 
>> b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
>> index 9f69995..577509f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
>> @@ -3897,8 +3897,13 @@ static void smi_recv_tasklet(unsigned long val)
>>       }
>>       if (!run_to_completion)
>>           spin_unlock_irqrestore(&intf->xmit_msgs_lock, flags);
>> -    if (newmsg)
>> -        intf->handlers->sender(intf->send_info, newmsg);
>> +
>> +    if (newmsg) {
>> +        rcu_read_lock();
>> +        if (!intf->in_shutdown)
>> +            intf->handlers->sender(intf->send_info, newmsg);
>> +        rcu_read_unlock();
>> +    }
>>         handle_new_recv_msgs(intf);
>>   }
>
>

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