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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:31:54 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module
On Thu, 2024-08-15 at 17:05 -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> The type system approach is slightly more complicated, but I'm now realizing
> it is probably the correct solution actually. Thanks for pointing that out!
>
> So: Functions like wait_event_lock_interruptible_irq() work because they drop
> the spinlock in question before re-enabling interrupts, then re-disable
> interrupts and re-acquire the lock before checking the condition. This is
> where a soundness issue with my current series lies.
>
> For the sake of explanation, let's pretend we have an imaginary rust function
> "irqs_on_and_sleep(irq: IrqDisabled<'_>)" that re-enables IRQs explicitly,
> sleeps, then turns them back on. This leads to a soundness issue if we have
> IrqDisabled be `Copy`:
>
> with_irqs_disabled(|irq| {
> let some_guard = some_spinlockirq.lock_with(irq);
> // ^ Let's call this type Guard<'1, …>
>
> irqs_on_and_sleep(irq);
> // ^ because `irq` is just copied here, the lifetime '1 doesn't end here.
> // Since we re-enabled interrupts while holding a SpinLockIrq, we would
> // potentially deadlock here.
>
> some_function(some_guard.some_data);
> });
>
> So - I'm thinking we might want to make it so that IrqDisabled does not have
> `Copy` - and that resources acquired with it should share the lifetime of an
> immutable reference to it. Let's now pretend `.lock_with()` takes an &'1
> IrqDisabled, and the irqs_on_and_sleep() function from before returns an
> IrqDisabled.
>
> with_irqs_disabled(|irq| { // <- still passed by value here
> let some_guard = some_spinlockirq.lock_with(&irq); // <- Guard<'1, …>
>
> let irq = irqs_on_and_sleep(irq); // The lifetime of '1 ends here
>
> some_function(some_guard.some_data);
> // Success! ^ this fails to compile, as '1 no longer lives long enough
> // for the guard to still be usable.
> // Deadlock averted :)
> )}
>
> Then if we were to add bindings for things like
> wait_event_lock_interruptible_irq() - we could have those take both the
> IrqDisabled token and the Guard<'1, …> by value - and then return them
> afterwards. Which I believe would fix the soundness issue :)
>
> How does that sound to everyone?
I should note though - after thinking about this for a moment, I realized that
there are still some issues with this. For instance: Since
with_irqs_disabled() can still be nested, a nested with_irqs_disabled() call
could create another IrqDisabled with its own lifetime - and thus we wouldn't
be able to do this same lifetime trick with any resources acquired outside the
nested call.
Granted - we -do- still have lockdep for this, so in such a situation with a
lockdep-enabled kernel we would certainly get a warning when this happens. I
think one option we might have if we wanted to go a bit further with safety
here: maybe we could do something like this:
pub fn with_irqs_disabled<T>(cb: impl for<'a> FnOnce(IrqDisabled<'a>) -> T) -> T {
// With this function, we would assert that IRQs are not enabled at the start
…
}
(I am a bit new to HRTBs, so the syntax here might not be right - but
hopefully you can still follow what I mean)
pub fn with_nested_irqs_disabled<T>(
irq: impl for<'a> Option<&'a mut IrqDisabled<'a>>,
cb: impl for<'a> FnOnce(IrqDisabled<'a>) -> T,
) -> T {
// With this function, we would assert that IRQs are disabled
// if irq.is_some(), otherwise we would assert they're disabled
// Since we require a mutable reference, this would still invalidate any
// borrows which rely on the previous IrqDisabled token
…
}
Granted - I have no idea how ergonomic something like this would be since on
the C side of things: we don't really require that the user know the prior IRQ
state for things like irqsave/irqrestore functions.
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Boqun
> >
> > > > Or you're saying there could exist an `IrqDisabled<'a>` but the
> > > > interrupts are enabled?
> > >
> > > No.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Cheers,
> > > Benno
> > >
> >
>
--
Cheers,
Lyude Paul (she/her)
Software Engineer at Red Hat
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