linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in smc_pnet_apply

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Message-ID: <YhNZAyoqSzIAfF9Y@TonyMac-Alibaba>
Date:   Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:18:59 +0800
From:   Tony Lu <tonylu@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
Cc:     jgg@...pe.ca, liangwenpeng@...wei.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        liweihang@...wei.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        syzbot <syzbot+4f322a6d84e991c38775@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [syzbot] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in
 smc_pnet_apply_ib

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 07:05:31PM +0100, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On giovedì 17 febbraio 2022 17:41:22 CET syzbot wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > syzbot found the following issue on:
> > 
> > HEAD commit:    c832962ac972 net: bridge: multicast: notify switchdev driv..
> > git tree:       net
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=16b157bc700000
> > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=266de9da75c71a45
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4f322a6d84e991c38775
> > compiler:       gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
> > 
> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > Reported-by: syzbot+4f322a6d84e991c38775@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> > 
> > infiniband syz1: set down
> > infiniband syz1: added lo
> > RDS/IB: syz1: added
> > smc: adding ib device syz1 with port count 1
> > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:577
> > in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 17974, name: syz-executor.3
> > preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
> > RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
> > 6 locks held by syz-executor.3/17974:
> >  #0: ffffffff90865838 (&rdma_nl_types[idx].sem){.+.+}-{3:3}, at: rdma_nl_rcv_msg+0x161/0x690 drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:164
> >  #1: ffffffff8d04edf0 (link_ops_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}, at: nldev_newlink+0x25d/0x560 drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c:1707
> >  #2: ffffffff8d03e650 (devices_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}, at: enable_device_and_get+0xfc/0x3b0 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:1321
> >  #3: ffffffff8d03e510 (clients_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}, at: enable_device_and_get+0x15b/0x3b0 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:1329
> >  #4: ffff8880482c85c0 (&device->client_data_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}, at: add_client_context+0x3d0/0x5e0 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:718
> >  #5: ffff8880230a4118 (&pnettable->lock){++++}-{2:2}, at: smc_pnetid_by_table_ib+0x18c/0x470 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:1159
> > Preemption disabled at:
> > [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
> > CPU: 1 PID: 17974 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3-syzkaller-00170-gc832962ac972 #0
> > Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
> > Call Trace:
> >  <TASK>
> >  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
> >  dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
> >  __might_resched.cold+0x222/0x26b kernel/sched/core.c:9576
> >  __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:577 [inline]
> >  __mutex_lock+0x9f/0x12f0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:733
> >  smc_pnet_apply_ib+0x28/0x160 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:251
> >  smc_pnetid_by_table_ib+0x2ae/0x470 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:1164
> 
> If I recall it well, read_lock() disables preemption. 
> 
> smc_pnetid_by_table_ib() uses read_lock() and then it calls smc_pnet_apply_ib() 
> which, in turn, calls mutex_lock(&smc_ib_devices.mutex). Therefore the code 
> acquires a mutex while in atomic and we get a SAC bug.
> 
> Actually, even if my argument is correct(?), I don't know if the read_lock() 
> in smc_pnetid_by_table_ib() can be converted to a sleeping lock like a mutex or 
> a semaphore.
 
Take the email above. I think it is safe to convert read_lock() to
mutex, which is already used by smc_ib_devices.mutex.

Thank you,
Tony Lu