linux-kernel - Re: d1fc031747 ("sched/wait: assert the wait_queue_head lock is .."): EIP: __wake_up

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Date:   Thu, 14 Dec 2017 04:58:09 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, LKP <lkp@...org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        wfg@...ux.intel.com, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: d1fc031747 ("sched/wait: assert the wait_queue_head lock is
 .."):  EIP: __wake_up_common

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 05:03:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >     sched/wait: assert the wait_queue_head lock is held in __wake_up_common
> >     
> >     Better ensure we actually hold the lock using lockdep than just commenting
> >     on it.  Due to the various exported _locked interfaces it is far too easy
> >     to get the locking wrong.
> 
> I'm probably sitting on an older version.  I've dropped
> 
> epoll: use the waitqueue lock to protect ep->wq
> sched/wait: assert the wait_queue_head lock is held in __wake_up_common

Looks pretty clear to me that userfaultfd is also abusing the wake_up_locked
interfaces:

        spin_lock(&ctx->fault_pending_wqh.lock);
        __wake_up_locked_key(&ctx->fault_pending_wqh, TASK_NORMAL, &range);
        __wake_up_locked_key(&ctx->fault_wqh, TASK_NORMAL, &range);
        spin_unlock(&ctx->fault_pending_wqh.lock);

Sure, it's locked, but not by the lock you thought it was going to be.

There doesn't actually appear to be a bug here; fault_wqh is always serialised
by fault_pending_wqh.lock, but lockdep can't know that.  I think this patch
will solve the problem.

diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
index ac9a4e65ca49..a39bc3237b68 100644
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ static int userfaultfd_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	 */
 	spin_lock(&ctx->fault_pending_wqh.lock);
 	__wake_up_locked_key(&ctx->fault_pending_wqh, TASK_NORMAL, &range);
-	__wake_up_locked_key(&ctx->fault_wqh, TASK_NORMAL, &range);
+	__wake_up(&ctx->fault_wqh, TASK_NORMAL, 1, &range);
 	spin_unlock(&ctx->fault_pending_wqh.lock);
 
 	/* Flush pending events that may still wait on event_wqh */
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ static ssize_t userfaultfd_ctx_read(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, int no_wait,
 			 * anyway.
 			 */
 			list_del(&uwq->wq.entry);
-			__add_wait_queue(&ctx->fault_wqh, &uwq->wq);
+			add_wait_queue(&ctx->fault_wqh, &uwq->wq);
 
 			write_seqcount_end(&ctx->refile_seq);
 
@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@ static void __wake_userfault(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
 		__wake_up_locked_key(&ctx->fault_pending_wqh, TASK_NORMAL,
 				     range);
 	if (waitqueue_active(&ctx->fault_wqh))
-		__wake_up_locked_key(&ctx->fault_wqh, TASK_NORMAL, range);
+		__wake_up(&ctx->fault_wqh, TASK_NORMAL, 1, range);
 	spin_unlock(&ctx->fault_pending_wqh.lock);
 }