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

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c b/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c index a0e6f746de6c..2e9e3ed7d63e 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ struct printk_safe_seq_buf { static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct printk_safe_seq_buf, safe_print_seq); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, printk_context);

+static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(safe_read_lock); + #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_NMI static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct printk_safe_seq_buf, nmi_print_seq); #endif @@ -180,8 +182,6 @@ static void report_message_lost(struct printk_safe_seq_buf *s) */ static void __printk_safe_flush(struct irq_work *work) { - static raw_spinlock_t read_lock = - __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_INITIALIZER(read_lock); struct printk_safe_seq_buf *s = container_of(work, struct printk_safe_seq_buf, work); unsigned long flags; @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static void __printk_safe_flush(struct irq_work *work) * different CPUs. This is especially important when printing * a backtrace. */ - raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock, flags); + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&safe_read_lock, flags);

i = 0; more: @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static void __printk_safe_flush(struct irq_work *work)

out: report_message_lost(s); - raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&read_lock, flags); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&safe_read_lock, flags); }

/** @@ -278,6 +278,14 @@ void printk_safe_flush_on_panic(void) raw_spin_lock_init(&logbuf_lock); }

+ if (raw_spin_is_locked(&safe_read_lock)) { + if (num_online_cpus() > 1) + return; + + debug_locks_off(); + raw_spin_lock_init(&safe_read_lock); + } + printk_safe_flush(); }