4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ Upstream commit 4f4b374332ec0ae9c738ff8ec9bed5cd97ff9adc ]
This is the much more correct fix for my earlier attempt at:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/10/118
Short recap:
- There's not actually a locking issue, it's just lockdep being a bit too eager to complain about a possible deadlock.
- Contrary to what I claimed the real problem is recursion on kn->count. Greg pointed me at sysfs_break_active_protection(), used by the scsi subsystem to allow a sysfs file to unbind itself. That would be a real deadlock, which isn't what's happening here. Also, breaking the active protection means we'd need to manually handle all the lifetime fun.
- With Rafael we discussed the task_work approach, which kinda works, but has two downsides: It's a functional change for a lockdep annotation issue, and it won't work for the bind file (which needs to get the errno from the driver load function back to userspace).
- Greg also asked why this never showed up: To hit this you need to unregister a 2nd driver from the unload code of your first driver. I guess only gpus do that. The bug has always been there, but only with a recent patch series did we add more locks so that lockdep built a chain from unbinding the snd-hda driver to the acpi_video_unregister call.
Full lockdep splat:
[12301.898799] ============================================ [12301.898805] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected [12301.898811] 4.20.0-rc7+ #84 Not tainted [12301.898815] -------------------------------------------- [12301.898821] bash/5297 is trying to acquire lock: [12301.898826] 00000000f61c6093 (kn->count#39){++++}, at: kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3b/0x80 [12301.898841] but task is already holding lock: [12301.898847] 000000005f634021 (kn->count#39){++++}, at: kernfs_fop_write+0xdc/0x190 [12301.898856] other info that might help us debug this: [12301.898862] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [12301.898867] CPU0 [12301.898870] ---- [12301.898874] lock(kn->count#39); [12301.898879] lock(kn->count#39); [12301.898883] *** DEADLOCK *** [12301.898891] May be due to missing lock nesting notation [12301.898899] 5 locks held by bash/5297: [12301.898903] #0: 00000000cd800e54 (sb_writers#4){.+.+}, at: vfs_write+0x17f/0x1b0 [12301.898915] #1: 000000000465e7c2 (&of->mutex){+.+.}, at: kernfs_fop_write+0xd3/0x190 [12301.898925] #2: 000000005f634021 (kn->count#39){++++}, at: kernfs_fop_write+0xdc/0x190 [12301.898936] #3: 00000000414ef7ac (&dev->mutex){....}, at: device_release_driver_internal+0x34/0x240 [12301.898950] #4: 000000003218fbdf (register_count_mutex){+.+.}, at: acpi_video_unregister+0xe/0x40 [12301.898960] stack backtrace: [12301.898968] CPU: 1 PID: 5297 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.20.0-rc7+ #84 [12301.898974] Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook 8460p/161C, BIOS 68SCF Ver. F.01 03/11/2011 [12301.898982] Call Trace: [12301.898989] dump_stack+0x67/0x9b [12301.898997] __lock_acquire+0x6ad/0x1410 [12301.899003] ? kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3b/0x80 [12301.899010] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x90 [12301.899017] ? mutex_spin_on_owner+0xe4/0x150 [12301.899023] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x90 [12301.899030] ? lock_acquire+0x90/0x180 [12301.899036] lock_acquire+0x90/0x180 [12301.899042] ? kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3b/0x80 [12301.899049] __kernfs_remove+0x296/0x310 [12301.899055] ? kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3b/0x80 [12301.899060] ? kernfs_name_hash+0xd/0x80 [12301.899066] ? kernfs_find_ns+0x6c/0x100 [12301.899073] kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3b/0x80 [12301.899080] bus_remove_driver+0x92/0xa0 [12301.899085] acpi_video_unregister+0x24/0x40 [12301.899127] i915_driver_unload+0x42/0x130 [i915] [12301.899160] i915_pci_remove+0x19/0x30 [i915] [12301.899169] pci_device_remove+0x36/0xb0 [12301.899176] device_release_driver_internal+0x185/0x240 [12301.899183] unbind_store+0xaf/0x180 [12301.899189] kernfs_fop_write+0x104/0x190 [12301.899195] __vfs_write+0x31/0x180 [12301.899203] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x6f/0x80 [12301.899209] ? rcu_sync_lockdep_assert+0x29/0x50 [12301.899216] ? __sb_start_write+0x13c/0x1a0 [12301.899221] ? vfs_write+0x17f/0x1b0 [12301.899227] vfs_write+0xb9/0x1b0 [12301.899233] ksys_write+0x50/0xc0 [12301.899239] do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x180 [12301.899247] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe [12301.899253] RIP: 0033:0x7f452ac7f7a4 [12301.899259] Code: 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 8b 05 aa f0 2c 00 48 63 ff 85 c0 75 13 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 f3 c3 66 90 55 53 48 89 d5 48 89 f3 48 83 [12301.899273] RSP: 002b:00007ffceafa6918 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 [12301.899282] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000d RCX: 00007f452ac7f7a4 [12301.899288] RDX: 000000000000000d RSI: 00005612a1abf7c0 RDI: 0000000000000001 [12301.899295] RBP: 00005612a1abf7c0 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 00005612a1c46730 [12301.899301] R10: 000000000000000a R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000000d [12301.899308] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007f452af4a740 R15: 000000000000000d
Looking around I've noticed that usb and i2c already handle similar recursion problems, where a sysfs file can unbind the same type of sysfs somewhere else in the hierarchy. Relevant commits are:
commit 356c05d58af05d582e634b54b40050c73609617b Author: Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu Date: Mon May 14 13:30:03 2012 -0400
sysfs: get rid of some lockdep false positives
commit e9b526fe704812364bca07edd15eadeba163ebfb Author: Alexander Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@nsn.com Date: Fri May 17 14:56:35 2013 +0200
i2c: suppress lockdep warning on delete_device
Implement the same trick for driver bind/unbind.
v2: Put the macro into bus.c (Greg).
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Cc: Ramalingam C ramalingam.c@intel.com Cc: Arend van Spriel aspriel@gmail.com Cc: Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski brgl@bgdev.pl Cc: Heikki Krogerus heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com Cc: Vivek Gautam vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org Cc: Joe Perches joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/base/bus.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c index 22a64fd3309b..1cf1460f8c90 100644 --- a/drivers/base/bus.c +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ static struct kset *system_kset;
#define to_drv_attr(_attr) container_of(_attr, struct driver_attribute, attr)
+#define DRIVER_ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \ + struct driver_attribute driver_attr_##_name = \ + __ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP(_name, _mode, _show, _store)
static int __must_check bus_rescan_devices_helper(struct device *dev, void *data); @@ -197,7 +200,7 @@ static ssize_t unbind_store(struct device_driver *drv, const char *buf, bus_put(bus); return err; } -static DRIVER_ATTR_WO(unbind); +static DRIVER_ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP(unbind, S_IWUSR, NULL, unbind_store);
/* * Manually attach a device to a driver. @@ -233,7 +236,7 @@ static ssize_t bind_store(struct device_driver *drv, const char *buf, bus_put(bus); return err; } -static DRIVER_ATTR_WO(bind); +static DRIVER_ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP(bind, S_IWUSR, NULL, bind_store);
static ssize_t show_drivers_autoprobe(struct bus_type *bus, char *buf) {