This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ftrace: Fix recursive locking direct_mutex in ftrace_modify_direct_caller
to the 6.0-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:
ftrace-fix-recursive-locking-direct_mutex-in-ftrace_.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a88fe03cfa1c0412a5840ef0e70e445a1d4514d2
Author: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Sep 26 17:41:46 2022 -0700
ftrace: Fix recursive locking direct_mutex in ftrace_modify_direct_caller
[ Upstream commit 9d2ce78ddcee159eb6a97449e9c68b6d60b9cec4 ]
Naveen reported recursive locking of direct_mutex with sample
ftrace-direct-modify.ko:
[ 74.762406] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[ 74.762887] 6.0.0-rc6+ #33 Not tainted
[ 74.763216] --------------------------------------------
[ 74.763672] event-sample-fn/1084 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 74.764152] ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[ 74.764922]
[ 74.764922] but task is already holding lock:
[ 74.765421] ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
modify_ftrace_direct+0x34/0x1f0
[ 74.766142]
[ 74.766142] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 74.766701] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[ 74.766701]
[ 74.767216] CPU0
[ 74.767437] ----
[ 74.767656] lock(direct_mutex);
[ 74.767952] lock(direct_mutex);
[ 74.768245]
[ 74.768245] *** DEADLOCK ***
[ 74.768245]
[ 74.768750] May be due to missing lock nesting notation
[ 74.768750]
[ 74.769332] 1 lock held by event-sample-fn/1084:
[ 74.769731] #0: ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
modify_ftrace_direct+0x34/0x1f0
[ 74.770496]
[ 74.770496] stack backtrace:
[ 74.770884] CPU: 4 PID: 1084 Comm: event-sample-fn Not tainted ...
[ 74.771498] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), ...
[ 74.772474] Call Trace:
[ 74.772696] <TASK>
[ 74.772896] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5b
[ 74.773223] __lock_acquire.cold.74+0xac/0x2b7
[ 74.773616] lock_acquire+0xd2/0x310
[ 74.773936] ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[ 74.774357] ? lock_is_held_type+0xd8/0x130
[ 74.774744] ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[ 74.775213] __mutex_lock+0x99/0x1010
[ 74.775536] ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[ 74.775954] ? slab_free_freelist_hook.isra.43+0x115/0x160
[ 74.776424] ? ftrace_set_hash+0x195/0x220
[ 74.776779] ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[ 74.777194] ? kfree+0x3e1/0x440
[ 74.777482] ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[ 74.777941] ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[ 74.778258] ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[ 74.778672] ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[ 74.779128] register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[ 74.779527] ? ftrace_set_filter_ip+0x33/0x70
[ 74.779910] ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[ 74.780231] ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[ 74.780678] ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[ 74.781147] ftrace_modify_direct_caller+0x5b/0x90
[ 74.781563] ? 0xffffffffa0201000
[ 74.781859] ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[ 74.782309] modify_ftrace_direct+0x1b2/0x1f0
[ 74.782690] ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[ 74.783014] ? simple_thread+0x2a/0xb0 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[ 74.783508] ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[ 74.783832] ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[ 74.784294] simple_thread+0x76/0xb0 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[ 74.784766] kthread+0xf5/0x120
[ 74.785052] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[ 74.785464] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 74.785781] </TASK>
Fix this by using register_ftrace_function_nolock in
ftrace_modify_direct_caller.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927004146.1215303-1-song@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 53cd885bc5c3 ("ftrace: Allow IPMODIFY and DIRECT ops on the same function")
Reported-and-tested-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 2edda4962367..83362a155791 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -5439,6 +5439,8 @@ static struct ftrace_ops stub_ops = {
* it is safe to modify the ftrace record, where it should be
* currently calling @old_addr directly, to call @new_addr.
*
+ * This is called with direct_mutex locked.
+ *
* Safety checks should be made to make sure that the code at
* @rec->ip is currently calling @old_addr. And this must
* also update entry->direct to @new_addr.
@@ -5451,6 +5453,8 @@ int __weak ftrace_modify_direct_caller(struct ftrace_func_entry *entry,
unsigned long ip = rec->ip;
int ret;
+ lockdep_assert_held(&direct_mutex);
+
/*
* The ftrace_lock was used to determine if the record
* had more than one registered user to it. If it did,
@@ -5473,7 +5477,7 @@ int __weak ftrace_modify_direct_caller(struct ftrace_func_entry *entry,
if (ret)
goto out_lock;
- ret = register_ftrace_function(&stub_ops);
+ ret = register_ftrace_function_nolock(&stub_ops);
if (ret) {
ftrace_set_filter_ip(&stub_ops, ip, 1, 0);
goto out_lock;
