Re: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in modeset_lock

[Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 5:16 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 10:52:06AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:14 AM syzbot
> > <syzbot+972b924c988834e868b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > syzbot found the following issue on:
> > >
> > > HEAD commit:    94801e5c Merge tag 'pinctrl-v5.10-3' of git://git.kernel.o..
> > > git tree:       upstream
> > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=130558c5500000
> > > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=ee8a1012a5314210
> > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=972b924c988834e868b2
> > > compiler:       gcc (GCC) 10.1.0-syz 20200507
> > > userspace arch: i386
> > >
> > > 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+972b924c988834e868b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > >
> > > =============================
> > > WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> > > 5.10.0-rc7-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
> > > -----------------------------
> > > kernel/sched/core.c:7270 Illegal context switch in RCU-sched read-side critical section!
> > >
> > > other info that might help us debug this:
> > >
> > >
> > > rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 0
> > > 7 locks held by syz-executor.1/9232:
> > >  #0: ffffffff8b328c60 (console_lock){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: do_fb_ioctl+0x2e4/0x690 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1106
> > >  #1: ffff888041bd4078 (&fb_info->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: lock_fb_info include/linux/fb.h:636 [inline]
> > >  #1: ffff888041bd4078 (&fb_info->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: do_fb_ioctl+0x2ee/0x690 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1107
> > >  #2: ffff888041adca78 (&helper->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: drm_fb_helper_pan_display+0xce/0x970 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c:1448
> > >  #3: ffff8880159f01b8 (&dev->master_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: drm_master_internal_acquire+0x1d/0x70 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c:407
> > >  #4: ffff888041adc898 (&client->modeset_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: drm_client_modeset_commit_locked+0x44/0x580 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_modeset.c:1143
> > >  #5: ffffc90001c07730 (crtc_ww_class_acquire){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: drm_client_modeset_commit_atomic+0xb7/0x7c0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_modeset.c:981
> > >  #6: ffff888015986108 (crtc_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ww_mutex_lock_slow include/linux/ww_mutex.h:287 [inline]
> > >  #6: ffff888015986108 (crtc_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: modeset_lock+0x31c/0x650 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c:260
> >
> > Given that we managed to take all these locks without upsetting anyone
> > the rcu section is very deep down. And looking at the backtrace below
> > I just couldn't find anything.
> >
> > Best I can think of is that an interrupt of some sort leaked an rcu
> > section, and we got shot here. But I'd assume the rcu debugging would
> > catch this? Backtrace of the start of that rcu read side section would
> > be really useful here, but I'm not seeing that in the logs. There's
> > more stuff there, but it's just the usual "everything falls apart"
> > stuff of little value to understanding how we got there.
>
> In my experience, lockdep will indeed complain if an interrupt handler
> returns while in an RCU read-side critical section.
>
> > Adding some rcu people for more insights on what could have gone wrong here.
> > -Daniel
> >
> > > stack backtrace:
> > > CPU: 1 PID: 9232 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 5.10.0-rc7-syzkaller #0
> > > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> > > Call Trace:
> > >  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
> > >  dump_stack+0x107/0x163 lib/dump_stack.c:118
> > >  ___might_sleep+0x25d/0x2b0 kernel/sched/core.c:7270
> > >  __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:935 [inline]
> > >  __ww_mutex_lock.constprop.0+0xa9/0x2cc0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:1111
> > >  ww_mutex_lock+0x3d/0x170 kernel/locking/mutex.c:1190
>
> Acquiring a mutex while under the influence of rcu_read_lock() will
> definitely get you this lockdep complaint, and rightfully so.
>
> If you need to acquire a mutex with RCU-like protection, one approach
> is to use SRCU.  But usually this indicates (as you suspected) that
> someone forgot to invoke rcu_read_unlock().
>
> One way to locate this is to enlist the aid of lockdep.  You can do this
> by putting something like this in the callers:
>
>         RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(lock_is_held(&rcu_bh_lock_map) ||
>                          lock_is_held(&rcu_lock_map) ||
>                          lock_is_held(&rcu_sched_lock_map),
>                          "We are in an RCU read-side critical section");
>
> This will get you a lockdep complaint much like the one above if the
> caller is in any sort of RCU read-side critical section.  You can push
> this up the call stack one level at a time or just sprinkle it up the
> stack in one go.
>
> The complaint is specifically about RCU-sched, so you could focus on
> that using this instead:
>
>         RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(lock_is_held(&rcu_sched_lock_map),
>                          "We are in an RCU-sched read-side critical section");
>
> This of course assumes that this is reproducible.  :-/
>
> But even if it isn't reproducible, for example, if the mutex is only
> acquired occasionally, these RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() calls can be used to
> check assumptions about state.


There is another recent claim of a false "suspicious RCU usage":
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201216205536.GX2443@casper.infradead.org/

Can this be wrong accounting by lock debugging?



>                                                         Thanx, Paul
>
> > >  modeset_lock+0x392/0x650 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c:263
> > >  drm_modeset_lock drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c:342 [inline]
> > >  drm_modeset_lock+0x50/0x90 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c:338
> > >  drm_atomic_get_plane_state+0x19d/0x510 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c:481
> > >  drm_client_modeset_commit_atomic+0x225/0x7c0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_modeset.c:994
> > >  drm_client_modeset_commit_locked+0x145/0x580 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_modeset.c:1145
> > >  pan_display_atomic drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c:1395 [inline]
> > >  drm_fb_helper_pan_display+0x28b/0x970 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c:1455
> > >  fb_pan_display+0x2f7/0x6c0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:925
> > >  fb_set_var+0x57f/0xda0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1043
> > >  do_fb_ioctl+0x2f9/0x690 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1108
> > >  fb_compat_ioctl+0x17c/0xaf0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1315
> > >  __do_compat_sys_ioctl+0x1d3/0x230 fs/ioctl.c:842
> > >  do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:78 [inline]
> > >  __do_fast_syscall_32+0x56/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:137
> > >  do_fast_syscall_32+0x2f/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:160
> > >  entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x4d/0x5c
> > > RIP: 0023:0xf7fd8549
> > > Code: 03 74 c0 01 10 05 03 74 b8 01 10 06 03 74 b4 01 10 07 03 74 b0 01 10 08 03 74 d8 01 00 00 00 00 00 51 52 55 89 e5 0f 34 cd 80 <5d> 5a 59 c3 90 90 90 90 eb 0d 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
> > > RSP: 002b:00000000f55d20bc EFLAGS: 00000296 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000036
> > > RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000004601
> > > RDX: 0000000020000240 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
> > > RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> > > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
> > > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
> > > detected fb_set_par error, error code: -16
> > >
> > >
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