linux-kernel - [PATCH v3] ttyprintk: fix a potential deadlock in interrupt context issue

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Message-Id: <20200113034842.435-1-zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:48:42 +0800
From:   Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3] ttyprintk: fix a potential deadlock in interrupt context issue

tpk_write()/tpk_close() could be interrupted when holding a mutex, then
in timer handler tpk_write() may be called again trying to acquire same
mutex, lead to deadlock.

Google syzbot reported this issue with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
enabled:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
kernel/locking/mutex.c:938
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
1 lock held by swapper/1/0:
...
Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
  dump_stack+0x197/0x210
  ___might_sleep.cold+0x1fb/0x23e
  __might_sleep+0x95/0x190
  __mutex_lock+0xc5/0x13c0
  mutex_lock_nested+0x16/0x20
  tpk_write+0x5d/0x340
  resync_tnc+0x1b6/0x320
  call_timer_fn+0x1ac/0x780
  run_timer_softirq+0x6c3/0x1790
  __do_softirq+0x262/0x98c
  irq_exit+0x19b/0x1e0
  smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a3/0x610
  apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
  </IRQ>

See link https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2eeef62ee31f9460ad65 for
more details.

Fix it by using spinlock in process context instead of mutex and having
interrupt disabled in critical section.

Reported-by: syzbot+2eeef62ee31f9460ad65@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...il.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
v3: add Reported-by, add Google link about the issue, update
patch description, per Greg K-H
v2: fix mailformed issue, no functional change.

 drivers/char/ttyprintk.c | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ttyprintk.c b/drivers/char/ttyprintk.c
index 4f24e46..56db949 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ttyprintk.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ttyprintk.c
@@ -15,10 +15,11 @@
 #include <linux/serial.h>
 #include <linux/tty.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
 
 struct ttyprintk_port {
 	struct tty_port port;
-	struct mutex port_write_mutex;
+	spinlock_t spinlock;
 };
 
 static struct ttyprintk_port tpk_port;
@@ -99,11 +100,12 @@ static int tpk_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
 static void tpk_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
 {
 	struct ttyprintk_port *tpkp = tty->driver_data;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
-	mutex_lock(&tpkp->port_write_mutex);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&tpkp->spinlock, flags);
 	/* flush tpk_printk buffer */
 	tpk_printk(NULL, 0);
-	mutex_unlock(&tpkp->port_write_mutex);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tpkp->spinlock, flags);
 
 	tty_port_close(&tpkp->port, tty, filp);
 }
@@ -115,13 +117,14 @@ static int tpk_write(struct tty_struct *tty,
 		const unsigned char *buf, int count)
 {
 	struct ttyprintk_port *tpkp = tty->driver_data;
+	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret;
 
 
 	/* exclusive use of tpk_printk within this tty */
-	mutex_lock(&tpkp->port_write_mutex);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&tpkp->spinlock, flags);
 	ret = tpk_printk(buf, count);
-	mutex_unlock(&tpkp->port_write_mutex);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tpkp->spinlock, flags);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -171,7 +174,7 @@ static int __init ttyprintk_init(void)
 {
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 
-	mutex_init(&tpk_port.port_write_mutex);
+	spin_lock_init(&tpk_port.spinlock);
 
 	ttyprintk_driver = tty_alloc_driver(1,
 			TTY_DRIVER_RESET_TERMIOS |
-- 
1.8.3.1