On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 09:37:16PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > When sysfs attributes use a lock also used on module removal we can > potentially deadlock. This happens when for instance a sysfs file on > a driver is used, then at the same time we have module removal call > trigger. The module removal call code holds a lock, and then the sysfs > file entry waits for the same lock. While holding the lock the module > removal tries to remove the sysfs entries, but these cannot be removed > yet as one is waiting for a lock. This won't complete as the lock is > already held. Likewise module removal cannot complete, and so we deadlock. > > To fix this we just *try* to get a refcount to the module when a shared > lock is used, prior to mucking with a sysfs attribute. If this fails we > just give up right away. > > We use a try method as a full lock means we'd then make our sysfs > attributes busy us out from possible module removal, and so userspace > could force denying module removal, a silly form of "DOS" against module > removal. A try lock on the module removal ensures we give priority to > module removal and interacting with sysfs attributes only comes second. > Using a full lock could mean for instance that if you don't stop poking > at sysfs files you cannot remove a module. > > This deadlock was first reported with the zram driver, a sketch of how > this can happen follows: > > CPU A CPU B > whatever_store() > module_unload > mutex_lock(foo) > mutex_lock(foo) > del_gendisk(zram->disk); > device_del() > device_remove_groups() > > In this situation whatever_store() is waiting for the mutex foo to > become unlocked, but that won't happen until module removal is complete. > But module removal won't complete until the sysfs file being poked > completes which is waiting for a lock already held. > > This is a generic kernel issue with sysfs files which use any lock also > used on module removal. Different generic solutions have been proposed. > One approach proposed is by directly by augmenting attributes with module > information [0]. This patch implements a solution by adding macros with > the prefix MODULE_DEVICE_ATTR_*() which accomplish the same. Until we > don't have a generic agreed upon solution for this shared between drivers, > we must implement a fix for this on each driver. > > We make zram use the new MODULE_DEVICE_ATTR_*() helpers, and completely > open code the solution for class attributes as there are only a few of > those. > > This issue can be reproduced easily on the zram driver as follows: > > Loop 1 on one terminal: > > while true; > do modprobe zram; > modprobe -r zram; > done > > Loop 2 on a second terminal: > while true; do > echo 1024 > /sys/block/zram0/disksize; > echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset; > done > > Without this patch we end up in a deadlock, and the following > stack trace is produced which hints to us what the issue was: > > INFO: task bash:888 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > Tainted: G E 5.12.0-rc1-next-20210304+ #4 > "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. > task:bash state:D stack: 0 pid: 888 ppid: 887 flags:<etc> > Call Trace: > __schedule+0x2e4/0x900 > schedule+0x46/0xb0 > schedule_preempt_disabled+0xa/0x10 > __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x2c3/0x490 > ? _kstrtoull+0x35/0xd0 > reset_store+0x6c/0x160 [zram] > kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x124/0x1b0 > new_sync_write+0x11c/0x1b0 > vfs_write+0x1c2/0x260 > ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 > do_syscall_64+0x33/0x80 > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae > RIP: 0033:0x7f34f2c3df33 > RSP: 002b:00007ffe751df6e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 > RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 00007f34f2c3df33 > RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000561ccb06ec10 RDI: 0000000000000001 > RBP: 0000561ccb06ec10 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000001 > R10: 0000561ccb157590 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002 > R13: 00007f34f2d0e6a0 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 00007f34f2d0e8a0 > INFO: task modprobe:1104 can't die for more than 120 seconds. > task:modprobe state:D stack: 0 pid: 1104 ppid: 916 flags:<etc> > Call Trace: > __schedule+0x2e4/0x900 > schedule+0x46/0xb0 > __kernfs_remove.part.0+0x228/0x2b0 > ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80 > kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x50/0x90 > remove_files+0x2b/0x60 > sysfs_remove_group+0x38/0x80 > sysfs_remove_groups+0x29/0x40 > device_remove_attrs+0x4a/0x80 > device_del+0x183/0x3e0 > ? mutex_lock+0xe/0x30 > del_gendisk+0x27a/0x2d0 > zram_remove+0x8a/0xb0 [zram] > ? hot_remove_store+0xf0/0xf0 [zram] > zram_remove_cb+0xd/0x10 [zram] > idr_for_each+0x5e/0xd0 > destroy_devices+0x39/0x6f [zram] > __do_sys_delete_module+0x190/0x2a0 > do_syscall_64+0x33/0x80 > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae > RIP: 0033:0x7f32adf727d7 > RSP: 002b:00007ffc08bb38a8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000b0 > RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055eea23cbb10 RCX: 00007f32adf727d7 > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000800 RDI: 000055eea23cbb78 > RBP: 000055eea23cbb10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 > R10: 00007f32adfe5ac0 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 000055eea23cbb78 > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000055eea23cbc20 > > [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210401235925.GR4332@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Much simple/clean now. Thanks for persuing the effort.
