This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled locking/rwsem: Disable preemption in all down_read*() and up_read() code paths to the 6.1-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: locking-rwsem-disable-preemption-in-all-down_read-an.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d017e25d3eeb59af0a0d3b7b38608e400cf3661e Author: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 25 19:36:26 2023 -0500 locking/rwsem: Disable preemption in all down_read*() and up_read() code paths [ Upstream commit 3f5245538a1964ae186ab7e1636020a41aa63143 ] Commit: 91d2a812dfb9 ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner") ... assumes that when the owner field is changed to NULL, the lock will become free soon. But commit: 48dfb5d2560d ("locking/rwsem: Disable preemption while trying for rwsem lock") ... disabled preemption when acquiring rwsem for write. However, preemption has not yet been disabled when acquiring a read lock on a rwsem. So a reader can add a RWSEM_READER_BIAS to count without setting owner to signal a reader, got preempted out by a RT task which then spins in the writer slowpath as owner remains NULL leading to live lock. One easy way to fix this problem is to disable preemption at all the down_read*() and up_read() code paths as implemented in this patch. Fixes: 91d2a812dfb9 ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner") Reported-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230126003628.365092-3-longman@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c index 44873594de031..324fc370b6a68 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c @@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ rwsem_down_read_slowpath(struct rw_semaphore *sem, long count, unsigned int stat /* Ordered by sem->wait_lock against rwsem_mark_wake(). */ break; } - schedule(); + schedule_preempt_disabled(); lockevent_inc(rwsem_sleep_reader); } @@ -1254,14 +1254,20 @@ static struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_downgrade_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem) */ static inline int __down_read_common(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int state) { + int ret = 0; long count; + preempt_disable(); if (!rwsem_read_trylock(sem, &count)) { - if (IS_ERR(rwsem_down_read_slowpath(sem, count, state))) - return -EINTR; + if (IS_ERR(rwsem_down_read_slowpath(sem, count, state))) { + ret = -EINTR; + goto out; + } DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON(!is_rwsem_reader_owned(sem), sem); } - return 0; +out: + preempt_enable(); + return ret; } static inline void __down_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem) @@ -1281,19 +1287,23 @@ static inline int __down_read_killable(struct rw_semaphore *sem) static inline int __down_read_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem) { + int ret = 0; long tmp; DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON(sem->magic != sem, sem); + preempt_disable(); tmp = atomic_long_read(&sem->count); while (!(tmp & RWSEM_READ_FAILED_MASK)) { if (atomic_long_try_cmpxchg_acquire(&sem->count, &tmp, tmp + RWSEM_READER_BIAS)) { rwsem_set_reader_owned(sem); - return 1; + ret = 1; + break; } } - return 0; + preempt_enable(); + return ret; } /* @@ -1335,6 +1345,7 @@ static inline void __up_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem) DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON(sem->magic != sem, sem); DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON(!is_rwsem_reader_owned(sem), sem); + preempt_disable(); rwsem_clear_reader_owned(sem); tmp = atomic_long_add_return_release(-RWSEM_READER_BIAS, &sem->count); DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON(tmp < 0, sem); @@ -1343,6 +1354,7 @@ static inline void __up_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem) clear_nonspinnable(sem); rwsem_wake(sem); } + preempt_enable(); } /* @@ -1662,6 +1674,12 @@ void down_read_non_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem) { might_sleep(); __down_read(sem); + /* + * The owner value for a reader-owned lock is mostly for debugging + * purpose only and is not critical to the correct functioning of + * rwsem. So it is perfectly fine to set it in a preempt-enabled + * context here. + */ __rwsem_set_reader_owned(sem, NULL); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(down_read_non_owner);