The below backtrace can be observed on -rt kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA option enabled: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:993 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, pid: 14, name: migration/0 1 lock held by migration/0/14: #0: (tasklist_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c01183e8>] update_sections_early+0x24/0xdc irq event stamp: 38 hardirqs last enabled at (37): [<c08f6f7c>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x68 hardirqs last disabled at (38): [<c01fdfe8>] multi_cpu_stop+0xd8/0x138 softirqs last enabled at (0): [<c01303ec>] copy_process.part.5+0x238/0x1b64 softirqs last disabled at (0): [< (null)>] (null) Preemption disabled at: [<c01fe244>] cpu_stopper_thread+0x80/0x10c CPU: 0 PID: 14 Comm: migration/0 Not tainted 4.9.21-rt16-02220-g49e319c #15 Hardware name: Generic DRA74X (Flattened Device Tree) [<c0112014>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010d370>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) [<c010d370>] (show_stack) from [<c049beb8>] (dump_stack+0xa8/0xd4) [<c049beb8>] (dump_stack) from [<c01631a0>] (___might_sleep+0x1bc/0x2ac) [<c01631a0>] (___might_sleep) from [<c08f7244>] (__rt_spin_lock+0x1c/0x30) [<c08f7244>] (__rt_spin_lock) from [<c08f77a4>] (rt_read_lock+0x54/0x68) [<c08f77a4>] (rt_read_lock) from [<c01183e8>] (update_sections_early+0x24/0xdc) [<c01183e8>] (update_sections_early) from [<c01184b0>] (__fix_kernmem_perms+0x10/0x1c) [<c01184b0>] (__fix_kernmem_perms) from [<c01fe010>] (multi_cpu_stop+0x100/0x138) [<c01fe010>] (multi_cpu_stop) from [<c01fe24c>] (cpu_stopper_thread+0x88/0x10c) [<c01fe24c>] (cpu_stopper_thread) from [<c015edc4>] (smpboot_thread_fn+0x174/0x31c) [<c015edc4>] (smpboot_thread_fn) from [<c015a988>] (kthread+0xf0/0x108) [<c015a988>] (kthread) from [<c0108818>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c) Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024K (c0d00000 - c0e00000) The stop_machine() is called with cpus = NULL from fix_kernmem_perms() and mark_rodata_ro() which means only one CPU will execute update_sections_early() while all other CPUs will spin and wait. Hence, it's safe to remove tasklist locking from update_sections_early(). As part of this change also mark functions which are local to this module as static to simplify code analize in the future. Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> --- arch/arm/mm/init.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c index 370581a..a77953a 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c @@ -693,30 +693,28 @@ static void update_sections_early(struct section_perm perms[], int n) { struct task_struct *t, *s; - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); for_each_process(t) { if (t->flags & PF_KTHREAD) continue; for_each_thread(t, s) set_section_perms(perms, n, true, s->mm); } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); set_section_perms(perms, n, true, current->active_mm); set_section_perms(perms, n, true, &init_mm); } -int __fix_kernmem_perms(void *unused) +static int __fix_kernmem_perms(void *unused) { update_sections_early(nx_perms, ARRAY_SIZE(nx_perms)); return 0; } -void fix_kernmem_perms(void) +static void fix_kernmem_perms(void) { stop_machine(__fix_kernmem_perms, NULL, NULL); } -int __mark_rodata_ro(void *unused) +static int __mark_rodata_ro(void *unused) { update_sections_early(ro_perms, ARRAY_SIZE(ro_perms)); return 0; -- 2.10.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html