linux-kernel - [PATCH] trace/osnoise: Fix possible recursive locking in stop_per_cpu

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Message-Id: <20220919144932.3064014-1-npache@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2022 08:49:32 -0600
From:   Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bristot@...nel.org
Cc:     rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH] trace/osnoise: Fix possible recursive locking in stop_per_cpu_kthreads

There is a recursive lock on the cpu_hotplug_lock.

In kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c:<start/stop>_per_cpu_kthreads:
    - start_per_cpu_kthreads calls cpus_read_lock() and if
	start_kthreads returns a error it will call stop_per_cpu_kthreads.
    - stop_per_cpu_kthreads then calls cpus_read_lock() again causing
      deadlock.

Fix this by calling cpus_read_unlock() before calling
stop_per_cpu_kthreads. This behavior can also be seen in commit
f46b16520a08 ("trace/hwlat: Implement the per-cpu mode").

This error was noticed during the LTP ftrace-stress-test:

WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
--------------------------------------------
sh/275006 is trying to acquire lock:
ffffffffb02f5400 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: stop_per_cpu_kthreads

but task is already holding lock:
ffffffffb02f5400 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_per_cpu_kthreads

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

      CPU0
      ----
 lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);
 lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

May be due to missing lock nesting notation

3 locks held by sh/275006:
 #0: ffff8881023f0470 (sb_writers#24){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksys_write
 #1: ffffffffb084f430 (trace_types_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rb_simple_write
 #2: ffffffffb02f5400 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_per_cpu_kthreads

Fixes: c8895e271f79 ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
index 313439920a8c..78d536d3ff3d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
@@ -1786,8 +1786,9 @@ static int start_per_cpu_kthreads(void)
 	for_each_cpu(cpu, current_mask) {
 		retval = start_kthread(cpu);
 		if (retval) {
+			cpus_read_unlock();
 			stop_per_cpu_kthreads();
-			break;
+			return retval;
 		}
 	}
 
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2.37.2