[PATCH 4.9 13/41] printk: fix deadlock when kernel panic - Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 13/41] printk: fix deadlock when kernel panic
Date: Fri,  5 Mar 2021 13:22:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210305120851.935800288@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210305120851.255002428@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>

commit 8a8109f303e25a27f92c1d8edd67d7cbbc60a4eb upstream.

printk_safe_flush_on_panic() caused the following deadlock on our
server:

CPU0:                                         CPU1:
panic                                         rcu_dump_cpu_stacks
  kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus                      nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace
    register_nmi_handler(crash_nmi_callback)      printk_safe_flush
                                                    __printk_safe_flush
                                                      raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock)
    // send NMI to other processors
    apic_send_IPI_allbutself(NMI_VECTOR)
                                                        // NMI interrupt, dead loop
                                                        crash_nmi_callback
  printk_safe_flush_on_panic
    printk_safe_flush
      __printk_safe_flush
        // deadlock
        raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock)

DEADLOCK: read_lock is taken on CPU1 and will never get released.

It happens when panic() stops a CPU by NMI while it has been in
the middle of printk_safe_flush().

Handle the lock the same way as logbuf_lock. The printk_safe buffers
are flushed only when both locks can be safely taken. It can avoid
the deadlock _in this particular case_ at expense of losing contents
of printk_safe buffers.

Note: It would actually be safe to re-init the locks when all CPUs were
      stopped by NMI. But it would require passing this information
      from arch-specific code. It is not worth the complexity.
      Especially because logbuf_lock and printk_safe buffers have been
      obsoleted by the lockless ring buffer.

Fixes: cf9b1106c81c ("printk/nmi: flush NMI messages on the system panic")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210210034823.64867-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/printk/nmi.c |   16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/printk/nmi.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/nmi.c
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ struct nmi_seq_buf {
 };
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct nmi_seq_buf, nmi_print_seq);
 
+static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(nmi_read_lock);
+
 /*
  * Safe printk() for NMI context. It uses a per-CPU buffer to
  * store the message. NMIs are not nested, so there is always only
@@ -134,8 +136,6 @@ static void printk_nmi_flush_seq_line(st
  */
 static void __printk_nmi_flush(struct irq_work *work)
 {
-	static raw_spinlock_t read_lock =
-		__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_INITIALIZER(read_lock);
 	struct nmi_seq_buf *s = container_of(work, struct nmi_seq_buf, work);
 	unsigned long flags;
 	size_t len, size;
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static void __printk_nmi_flush(struct ir
 	 * different CPUs. This is especially important when printing
 	 * a backtrace.
 	 */
-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&nmi_read_lock, flags);
 
 	i = 0;
 more:
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ more:
 		goto more;
 
 out:
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&read_lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&nmi_read_lock, flags);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -239,6 +239,14 @@ void printk_nmi_flush_on_panic(void)
 		raw_spin_lock_init(&logbuf_lock);
 	}
 
+	if (in_nmi() && raw_spin_is_locked(&nmi_read_lock)) {
+		if (num_online_cpus() > 1)
+			return;
+
+		debug_locks_off();
+		raw_spin_lock_init(&nmi_read_lock);
+	}
+
 	printk_nmi_flush();
 }
 


