RFC -> v1: - keep the in_atomic() in the fault handlers (via faulthandler_disabled() ) to not break fault handler in irq context (Peter) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I recently discovered that might_fault() doesn't call might_sleep() anymore. Therefore bugs like: spin_lock(&lock); rc = copy_to_user(...); spin_unlock(&lock); would not be detected with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP. The code was changed to disable false positives for code like: pagefault_disable(); rc = copy_to_user(...); pagefault_enable(); Whereby the caller wants do deal with failures. If we schedule while holding a spinlock, bad things can happen. Preemption is disabled, but we still preempt - on s390 this can lead to spinlocks never getting unlocked (as unlocking code checks for the cpu id that locke the spinlock), therefore resulting in a deadlock. Until now, pagefault_(dis|en)nable) simply modified the preempt count, therefore telling the pagefault handler that the context is atomic and sleeping is disallowed. With !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT, the preempt count does not exist. So preempt_disable() as well es pagefault_disable() is a NOP. in_atomic() checks the preempt count. So we can't detect in_atomic on systems without preemption. That is also mentioned in the comment of in_atomic(): "WARNING: this macro cannot always detect atomic context; in particular, it cannot know about held spinlocks in non-preemptible kernels." We automatically have !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT with !CONFIG_PREEMPT and !CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP, so on a system with disabled pagefaults. All fault handlers currently rely on in_atomic() to check for disabled pagefaults. This series therefore does 2 things: 1. Decouple pagefault_disable() from preempt_enable() pagefault_(dis|en)able() modifies an own counter and doesn't touch preemption anymore. The fault handlers now only check for disabled pagefaults. I checked (hopefully) every caller of pagefault_disable(), if they implicitly rely on preempt_disable() - and if so added these calls. Hope I haven't missed some cases. I didn't check all users of preempt_disable() if they relied on them disabling pagefaults. My assumption is that such code is broken either way (on non-preemptible systems). Pagefaults would only be disabled with CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT (exception: irq context). in_atomic() checks are left in the fault handlers to detect irq context. 2. Reenable might_sleep() checks for might_fault() As we can now decide if we really have pagefaults disabled, we can reenable the might_sleep() check in might_fault(). So this should now work: spin_lock(&lock); /* also if left away */ pagefault_disable() rc = copy_to_user(...); pagefault_enable(); spin_unlock(&lock); And this should report a warning again: spin_lock(&lock); rc = copy_to_user(...); spin_unlock(&lock); Cross compiled on powerpc, arm, sparc, sparc64, arm64, x86_64, i386, mips, alpha, ia64, xtensa, m68k, microblaze. Tested on s390x. Any feedback very welcome! Thanks! David Hildenbrand (15): uaccess: count pagefault_disable() levels in pagefault_disabled mm, uaccess: trigger might_sleep() in might_fault() with disabled pagefaults uaccess: clarify that uaccess may only sleep if pagefaults are enabled mm: explicitly disable/enable preemption in kmap_atomic_* mips: kmap_coherent relies on disabled preemption mm: use pagefault_disable() to check for disabled pagefaults in the handler drm/i915: use pagefault_disabled() to check for disabled pagefaults futex: UP futex_atomic_op_inuser() relies on disabled preemption futex: UP futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() relies on disabled preemption arm/futex: UP futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() relies on disabled preemption arm/futex: UP futex_atomic_op_inuser() relies on disabled preemption futex: clarify that preemption doesn't have to be disabled powerpc: enable_kernel_altivec() requires disabled preemption mips: properly lock access to the fpu uaccess: decouple preemption from the pagefault logic arch/alpha/mm/fault.c | 5 ++-- arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h | 10 +++---- arch/arc/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h | 13 ++++++-- arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mm/highmem.c | 3 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h | 4 +-- arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/avr32/include/asm/uaccess.h | 12 +++++--- arch/avr32/mm/fault.c | 4 +-- arch/cris/mm/fault.c | 6 ++-- arch/frv/mm/fault.c | 4 +-- arch/frv/mm/highmem.c | 2 ++ arch/hexagon/include/asm/uaccess.h | 3 +- arch/ia64/mm/fault.c | 4 +-- arch/m32r/include/asm/uaccess.h | 30 ++++++++++++------- arch/m32r/mm/fault.c | 8 ++--- arch/m68k/mm/fault.c | 4 +-- arch/metag/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/metag/mm/highmem.c | 4 ++- arch/microblaze/include/asm/uaccess.h | 6 ++-- arch/microblaze/mm/fault.c | 8 ++--- arch/microblaze/mm/highmem.c | 4 ++- arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h | 45 ++++++++++++++++++---------- arch/mips/kernel/signal-common.h | 9 ++---- arch/mips/mm/fault.c | 4 +-- arch/mips/mm/highmem.c | 5 +++- arch/mips/mm/init.c | 2 ++ arch/mn10300/include/asm/highmem.h | 3 ++ arch/mn10300/mm/fault.c | 4 +-- arch/nios2/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/parisc/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 2 ++ arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c | 4 +-- arch/parisc/mm/fault.c | 4 +-- arch/powerpc/lib/vmx-helper.c | 11 +++---- arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 9 +++--- arch/powerpc/mm/highmem.c | 4 ++- arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h | 15 ++++++---- arch/s390/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/score/include/asm/uaccess.h | 15 ++++++---- arch/score/mm/fault.c | 3 +- arch/sh/mm/fault.c | 5 ++-- arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c | 4 +-- arch/sparc/mm/fault_64.c | 4 +-- arch/sparc/mm/highmem.c | 4 ++- arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 2 +- arch/tile/include/asm/uaccess.h | 18 +++++++---- arch/tile/mm/fault.c | 4 +-- arch/tile/mm/highmem.c | 3 +- arch/um/kernel/trap.c | 4 +-- arch/unicore32/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 15 ++++++---- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h | 6 ++-- arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c | 6 ++-- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 5 ++-- arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c | 3 +- arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c | 2 ++ arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c | 4 +-- arch/xtensa/mm/highmem.c | 2 ++ drivers/crypto/vmx/aes.c | 8 ++++- drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c | 6 ++++ drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c | 8 +++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 3 +- include/asm-generic/futex.h | 7 +++-- include/linux/highmem.h | 2 ++ include/linux/io-mapping.h | 2 ++ include/linux/kernel.h | 3 +- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + include/linux/uaccess.h | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------- kernel/fork.c | 3 ++ lib/strnlen_user.c | 6 ++-- mm/memory.c | 18 ++++------- 72 files changed, 319 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-) -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html