linux-kernel - [PATCH v3] workqueue: don't skip lockdep work dependency in cancel_work

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:30:23 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3] workqueue: don't skip lockdep work dependency in
 cancel_work_sync()

Like Hillf Danton mentioned

  syzbot should have been able to catch cancel_work_sync() in work context
  by checking lockdep_map in __flush_work() for both flush and cancel.

in [1], being unable to report an obvious deadlock scenario shown below is
broken. From locking dependency perspective, sync version of cancel request
should behave as if flush request, for it waits for completion of work if
that work has already started execution.

  ----------
  #include <linux/module.h>
  #include <linux/sched.h>
  static DEFINE_MUTEX(mutex);
  static void work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
  {
    schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ / 5);
    mutex_lock(&mutex);
    mutex_unlock(&mutex);
  }
  static DECLARE_WORK(work, work_fn);
  static int __init test_init(void)
  {
    schedule_work(&work);
    schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ / 10);
    mutex_lock(&mutex);
    cancel_work_sync(&work);
    mutex_unlock(&mutex);
    return -EINVAL;
  }
  module_init(test_init);
  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
  ----------

The check this patch restores was added by commit 0976dfc1d0cd80a4
("workqueue: Catch more locking problems with flush_work()").

Then, lockdep's crossrelease feature was added by commit b09be676e0ff25bd
("locking/lockdep: Implement the 'crossrelease' feature"). As a result,
this check was once removed by commit fd1a5b04dfb899f8 ("workqueue: Remove
now redundant lock acquisitions wrt. workqueue flushes").

But lockdep's crossrelease feature was removed by commit e966eaeeb623f099
("locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checks"). At this
point, this check should have been restored.

Then, commit d6e89786bed977f3 ("workqueue: skip lockdep wq dependency in
cancel_work_sync()") introduced a boolean flag in order to distinguish
flush_work() and cancel_work_sync(), for checking "struct workqueue_struct"
dependency when called from cancel_work_sync() was causing false positives.

Then, commit 87915adc3f0acdf0 ("workqueue: re-add lockdep dependencies for
flushing") tried to restore "struct work_struct" dependency check, but by
error checked this boolean flag. Like an example shown above indicates,
"struct work_struct" dependency needs to be checked for both flush_work()
and cancel_work_sync().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220504044800.4966-1-hdanton@sina.com [1]
Reported-by: Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>
Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Fixes: 87915adc3f0acdf0 ("workqueue: re-add lockdep dependencies for flushing")
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
---
Changes in v3:
  Update patch description.

Changes in v2:
  Check work's dependency and do not check workqueue's dependency.

 kernel/workqueue.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 1ea50f6be843..01c5abf7fc61 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -3066,10 +3066,8 @@ static bool __flush_work(struct work_struct *work, bool from_cancel)
 	if (WARN_ON(!work->func))
 		return false;

-	if (!from_cancel) {
-		lock_map_acquire(&work->lockdep_map);
-		lock_map_release(&work->lockdep_map);
-	}
+	lock_map_acquire(&work->lockdep_map);
+	lock_map_release(&work->lockdep_map);

 	if (start_flush_work(work, &barr, from_cancel)) {
 		wait_for_completion(&barr.done);
-- 
2.18.4