linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: Fix lockdep false negative during host resume

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Date:   Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:26:48 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Fix lockdep false negative during host resume

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>
> 
> I saw the below splatting after the host suspended and resumed.
> 
>    WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2943 at kvm/arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5531 kvm_resume+0x2c/0x30 [kvm]
>    CPU: 0 PID: 2943 Comm: step_after_susp Tainted: G        W IOE     5.17.0-rc3+ #4
>    RIP: 0010:kvm_resume+0x2c/0x30 [kvm]
>    Call Trace:
>     <TASK>
>     syscore_resume+0x90/0x340
>     suspend_devices_and_enter+0xaee/0xe90
>     pm_suspend.cold+0x36b/0x3c2
>     state_store+0x82/0xf0
>     kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x1b6/0x260
>     new_sync_write+0x258/0x370
>     vfs_write+0x33f/0x510
>     ksys_write+0xc9/0x160
>     do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
>     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> 
> lockdep_is_held() can return -1 when lockdep is disabled which triggers
> this warning. Let's use lockdep_assert_not_held() which can detect 
> incorrect calls while holding a lock and it also avoids false negatives
> when lockdep is disabled.
> 

Fixes: 2eb06c306a57 ("KVM: Fix spinlock taken warning during host resume")

> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 83c57bcc6eb6..3f861f33bfe0 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -5528,7 +5528,7 @@ static void kvm_resume(void)
>  {
>  	if (kvm_usage_count) {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP

The #ifdef can be dropped, it was added only to omit the WARN_ON.

With that,

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>

> -		WARN_ON(lockdep_is_held(&kvm_count_lock));
> +		lockdep_assert_not_held(&kvm_count_lock);
>  #endif
>  		hardware_enable_nolock(NULL);
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>