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Message-ID: <66a745bb-d381-471c-aeee-3800a504f87d@paulmck-laptop>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:10:58 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
linux-mm@...ck.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
longman@...hat.com, boqun.feng@...il.com, cl@...ux.com,
penberg@...nel.org, rientjes@...gle.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] -next lockdep invalid wait context
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 11:34:08PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 10:48PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > On 10/30/24 22:05, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > Hello!
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > > The next-20241030 release gets the splat shown below when running
> > > scftorture in a preemptible kernel. This bisects to this commit:
> > >
> > > 560af5dc839e ("lockdep: Enable PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING with PROVE_LOCKING")
> > >
> > > Except that all this is doing is enabling lockdep to find the problem.
> > >
> > > The obvious way to fix this is to make the kmem_cache structure's
> > > cpu_slab field's ->lock be a raw spinlock, but this might not be what
> > > we want for real-time response.
> >
> > But it's a local_lock, not spinlock and it's doing local_lock_irqsave(). I'm
> > confused what's happening here, the code has been like this for years now.
> >
> > > This can be reproduced deterministically as follows:
> > >
> > > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --torture scf --allcpus --duration 2 --configs PREEMPT --kconfig CONFIG_NR_CPUS=64 --memory 7G --trust-make --kasan --bootargs "scftorture.nthreads=64 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot csdlock_debug=1"
> > >
> > > I doubt that the number of CPUs or amount of memory makes any difference,
> > > but that is what I used.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Thanx, Paul
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > [ 35.659746] =============================
> > > [ 35.659746] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
> > > [ 35.659746] 6.12.0-rc5-next-20241029 #57233 Not tainted
> > > [ 35.659746] -----------------------------
> > > [ 35.659746] swapper/37/0 is trying to lock:
> > > [ 35.659746] ffff8881ff4bf2f0 (&c->lock){....}-{3:3}, at: put_cpu_partial+0x49/0x1b0
> > > [ 35.659746] other info that might help us debug this:
> > > [ 35.659746] context-{2:2}
> > > [ 35.659746] no locks held by swapper/37/0.
> > > [ 35.659746] stack backtrace:
> > > [ 35.659746] CPU: 37 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/37 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5-next-20241029 #57233
> > > [ 35.659746] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> > > [ 35.659746] Call Trace:
> > > [ 35.659746] <IRQ>
> > > [ 35.659746] dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xa0
> > > [ 35.659746] __lock_acquire+0x8fd/0x3b90
> > > [ 35.659746] ? start_secondary+0x113/0x210
> > > [ 35.659746] ? __pfx___lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
> > > [ 35.659746] ? __pfx___lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
> > > [ 35.659746] ? __pfx___lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
> > > [ 35.659746] ? __pfx___lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
> > > [ 35.659746] lock_acquire+0x19b/0x520
> > > [ 35.659746] ? put_cpu_partial+0x49/0x1b0
> > > [ 35.659746] ? __pfx_lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
> > > [ 35.659746] ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10
> > > [ 35.659746] ? lock_release+0x20f/0x6f0
> > > [ 35.659746] ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10
> > > [ 35.659746] ? lock_release+0x20f/0x6f0
> > > [ 35.659746] ? kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
> > > [ 35.659746] put_cpu_partial+0x52/0x1b0
> > > [ 35.659746] ? put_cpu_partial+0x49/0x1b0
> > > [ 35.659746] ? __pfx_scf_handler_1+0x10/0x10
> > > [ 35.659746] __flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x2d2/0x600
> >
> > How did we even get to put_cpu_partial directly from flushing smp calls?
> > SLUB doesn't use them, it uses queue_work_on)_ for flushing and that
> > flushing doesn't involve put_cpu_partial() AFAIK.
> >
> > I think only slab allocation or free can lead to put_cpu_partial() that
> > would mean the backtrace is missing something. And that somebody does a slab
> > alloc/free from a smp callback, which I'd then assume isn't allowed?
>
> Tail-call optimization is hiding the caller. Compiling with
> -fno-optimize-sibling-calls exposes the caller. This gives the full
> picture:
>
> [ 40.321505] =============================
> [ 40.322711] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
> [ 40.323927] 6.12.0-rc5-next-20241030-dirty #4 Not tainted
> [ 40.325502] -----------------------------
> [ 40.326653] cpuhp/47/253 is trying to lock:
> [ 40.327869] ffff8881ff9bf2f0 (&c->lock){....}-{3:3}, at: put_cpu_partial+0x48/0x1a0
> [ 40.330081] other info that might help us debug this:
> [ 40.331540] context-{2:2}
> [ 40.332305] 3 locks held by cpuhp/47/253:
> [ 40.333468] #0: ffffffffae6e6910 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0xe0/0x590
> [ 40.336048] #1: ffffffffae6e9060 (cpuhp_state-down){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0xe0/0x590
> [ 40.338607] #2: ffff8881002a6948 (&root->kernfs_rwsem){++++}-{4:4}, at: kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x78/0x100
> [ 40.341454] stack backtrace:
> [ 40.342291] CPU: 47 UID: 0 PID: 253 Comm: cpuhp/47 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5-next-20241030-dirty #4
> [ 40.344807] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
> [ 40.347482] Call Trace:
> [ 40.348199] <IRQ>
> [ 40.348827] dump_stack_lvl+0x6b/0xa0
> [ 40.349899] dump_stack+0x10/0x20
> [ 40.350850] __lock_acquire+0x900/0x4010
> [ 40.360290] lock_acquire+0x191/0x4f0
> [ 40.364850] put_cpu_partial+0x51/0x1a0
> [ 40.368341] scf_handler+0x1bd/0x290
> [ 40.370590] scf_handler_1+0x4e/0xb0
> [ 40.371630] __flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x2dd/0x600
> [ 40.373142] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0xe/0x20
> [ 40.374801] __sysvec_call_function_single+0x50/0x280
> [ 40.376214] sysvec_call_function_single+0x6c/0x80
> [ 40.377543] </IRQ>
> [ 40.378142] <TASK>
>
> And scf_handler does indeed tail-call kfree:
>
> static void scf_handler(void *scfc_in)
> {
> [...]
> } else {
> kfree(scfcp);
> }
> }
So I need to avoid calling kfree() within an smp_call_function() handler?
Thanx, Paul
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