linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 1/2] rcu: Don't acquire lock in NMI handler in rcu_nmi_enter

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Date:   Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:40:45 -0700
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        "# 5 . 5 . x" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 1/2] rcu: Don't acquire lock in NMI handler in rcu_nmi_enter_common()

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

The rcu_nmi_enter_common() function can be invoked both in interrupt
and NMI handlers.  If it is invoked from process context (as opposed
to userspace or idle context) on a nohz_full CPU, it might acquire the
CPU's leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock.  Because this lock is held only
with interrupts disabled, this is safe from an interrupt handler, but
doing so from an NMI handler can result in self-deadlock.

This commit therefore adds "irq" to the "if" condition so as to only
acquire the ->lock from irq handlers or process context, never from
an NMI handler.

Fixes: 5b14557b073c ("rcu: Avoid tick_dep_set_cpu() misordering")
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 5.5.x
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index d3f52c3..f7d3e48 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ static __always_inline void rcu_nmi_enter_common(bool irq)
 			rcu_cleanup_after_idle();
 
 		incby = 1;
-	} else if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(rdp->cpu) &&
+	} else if (irq && tick_nohz_full_cpu(rdp->cpu) &&
 		   rdp->dynticks_nmi_nesting == DYNTICK_IRQ_NONIDLE &&
 		   READ_ONCE(rdp->rcu_urgent_qs) &&
 		   !READ_ONCE(rdp->rcu_forced_tick)) {
-- 
2.9.5