This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete & sysfs ops
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
blktrace-fix-potential-deadlock-between-delete-sysfs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8f7d1986c7ee15bdfbb32b33a45da62f94583f01
Author: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Sep 20 13:12:20 2017 -0600
blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete & sysfs ops
commit 5acb3cc2c2e9d3020a4fee43763c6463767f1572 upstream.
The lockdep code had reported the following unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(s_active#228);
lock(&bdev->bd_mutex/1);
lock(s_active#228);
lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
*** DEADLOCK ***
The deadlock may happen when one task (CPU1) is trying to delete a
partition in a block device and another task (CPU0) is accessing
tracing sysfs file (e.g. /sys/block/dm-1/trace/act_mask) in that
partition.
The s_active isn't an actual lock. It is a reference count (kn->count)
on the sysfs (kernfs) file. Removal of a sysfs file, however, require
a wait until all the references are gone. The reference count is
treated like a rwsem using lockdep instrumentation code.
The fact that a thread is in the sysfs callback method or in the
ioctl call means there is a reference to the opended sysfs or device
file. That should prevent the underlying block structure from being
removed.
Instead of using bd_mutex in the block_device structure, a new
blk_trace_mutex is now added to the request_queue structure to protect
access to the blk_trace structure.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Fix typo in patch subject line, and prune a comment detailing how
the code used to work.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 7662f97dded69..dc4119a1e1229 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -719,6 +719,9 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_node(gfp_t gfp_mask, int node_id)
kobject_init(&q->kobj, &blk_queue_ktype);
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
+ mutex_init(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+#endif
mutex_init(&q->sysfs_lock);
spin_lock_init(&q->__queue_lock);
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 4ae5d6ecd7275..ab819210e0112 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ struct request_queue {
int node;
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
struct blk_trace *blk_trace;
+ struct mutex blk_trace_mutex;
#endif
/*
* for flush operations
diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 210b8e726a974..5e6fc28414028 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -644,6 +644,12 @@ int blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_trace_startstop);
+/*
+ * When reading or writing the blktrace sysfs files, the references to the
+ * opened sysfs or device files should prevent the underlying block device
+ * from being removed. So no further delete protection is really needed.
+ */
+
/**
* blk_trace_ioctl: - handle the ioctls associated with tracing
* @bdev: the block device
@@ -661,7 +667,7 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
if (!q)
return -ENXIO;
- mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
switch (cmd) {
case BLKTRACESETUP:
@@ -687,7 +693,7 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
break;
}
- mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
return ret;
}
@@ -1652,7 +1658,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_show(struct device *dev,
if (q == NULL)
goto out_bdput;
- mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
if (attr == &dev_attr_enable) {
ret = sprintf(buf, "%u\n", !!q->blk_trace);
@@ -1671,7 +1677,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_show(struct device *dev,
ret = sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", q->blk_trace->end_lba);
out_unlock_bdev:
- mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
out_bdput:
bdput(bdev);
out:
@@ -1713,7 +1719,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store(struct device *dev,
if (q == NULL)
goto out_bdput;
- mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
if (attr == &dev_attr_enable) {
if (!!value == !!q->blk_trace) {
@@ -1743,7 +1749,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store(struct device *dev,
}
out_unlock_bdev:
- mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
out_bdput:
bdput(bdev);
out:
