This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rcu: Fix stall-warning deadlock due to non-release of rcu_node ->lock
to the 5.14-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:
rcu-fix-stall-warning-deadlock-due-to-non-release-of.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit aaab7bbc2c56857169413beb3dd84a3ff889e308
Author: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun May 16 17:50:10 2021 +0800
rcu: Fix stall-warning deadlock due to non-release of rcu_node ->lock
[ Upstream commit dc87740c8a6806bd2162bfb441770e4e53be5601 ]
If rcu_print_task_stall() is invoked on an rcu_node structure that does
not contain any tasks blocking the current grace period, it takes an
early exit that fails to release that rcu_node structure's lock. This
results in a self-deadlock, which is detected by lockdep.
To reproduce this bug:
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --allcpus --duration 3 --trust-make --configs "TREE03" --kconfig "CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y" --bootargs "rcutorture.stall_cpu=30 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block=1 rcutorture.fwd_progress=0 rcutorture.test_boost=0"
This will also result in other complaints, including RCU's scheduler
hook complaining about blocking rather than preemption and an rcutorture
writer stall.
Only a partial RCU CPU stall warning message will be printed because of
the self-deadlock.
This commit therefore releases the lock on the rcu_print_task_stall()
function's early exit path.
Fixes: c583bcb8f5ed ("rcu: Don't invoke try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() with irqs disabled")
Tested-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
index d56b4ede1db3..0e7a60706d1c 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
@@ -269,8 +269,10 @@ static int rcu_print_task_stall(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags)
struct task_struct *ts[8];
lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
- if (!rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp(rnp))
+ if (!rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp(rnp)) {
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
return 0;
+ }
pr_err("\tTasks blocked on level-%d rcu_node (CPUs %d-%d):",
rnp->level, rnp->grplo, rnp->grphi);
t = list_entry(rnp->gp_tasks->prev,
