This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
printk: Disable passing console lock owner completely during panic()
to the 5.15-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:
printk-disable-passing-console-lock-owner-completely.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit edf4e1e6001bf8bc53c4ed01fc18f8ea53e06e64
Author: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Feb 7 14:47:00 2024 +0106
printk: Disable passing console lock owner completely during panic()
[ Upstream commit d04d5882cd678b898a9d7c5aee6afbe9e6e77fcd ]
The commit d51507098ff91 ("printk: disable optimistic spin
during panic") added checks to avoid becoming a console waiter
if a panic is in progress.
However, the transition to panic can occur while there is
already a waiter. The current owner should not pass the lock to
the waiter because it might get stopped or blocked anytime.
Also the panic context might pass the console lock owner to an
already stopped waiter by mistake. It might happen when
console_flush_on_panic() ignores the current lock owner, for
example:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
console_lock_spinning_enable()
console_trylock_spinning()
[CPU1 now console waiter]
NMI: panic()
panic_other_cpus_shutdown()
[stopped as console waiter]
console_flush_on_panic()
console_lock_spinning_enable()
[print 1 record]
console_lock_spinning_disable_and_check()
[handover to stopped CPU1]
This results in panic() not flushing the panic messages.
Fix these problems by disabling all spinning operations
completely during panic().
Another advantage is that it prevents possible deadlocks caused
by "console_owner_lock". The panic() context does not need to
take it any longer. The lockless checks are safe because the
functions become NOPs when they see the panic in progress. All
operations manipulating the state are still synchronized by the
lock even when non-panic CPUs would notice the panic
synchronously.
The current owner might stay spinning. But non-panic() CPUs
would get stopped anyway and the panic context will never start
spinning.
Fixes: dbdda842fe96 ("printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes")
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240207134103.1357162-12-john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index de44ccf9743c1..5ad824b080e27 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1802,10 +1802,23 @@ static bool console_waiter;
*/
static void console_lock_spinning_enable(void)
{
+ /*
+ * Do not use spinning in panic(). The panic CPU wants to keep the lock.
+ * Non-panic CPUs abandon the flush anyway.
+ *
+ * Just keep the lockdep annotation. The panic-CPU should avoid
+ * taking console_owner_lock because it might cause a deadlock.
+ * This looks like the easiest way how to prevent false lockdep
+ * reports without handling races a lockless way.
+ */
+ if (panic_in_progress())
+ goto lockdep;
+
raw_spin_lock(&console_owner_lock);
console_owner = current;
raw_spin_unlock(&console_owner_lock);
+lockdep:
/* The waiter may spin on us after setting console_owner */
spin_acquire(&console_owner_dep_map, 0, 0, _THIS_IP_);
}
@@ -1829,6 +1842,22 @@ static int console_lock_spinning_disable_and_check(void)
{
int waiter;
+ /*
+ * Ignore spinning waiters during panic() because they might get stopped
+ * or blocked at any time,
+ *
+ * It is safe because nobody is allowed to start spinning during panic
+ * in the first place. If there has been a waiter then non panic CPUs
+ * might stay spinning. They would get stopped anyway. The panic context
+ * will never start spinning and an interrupted spin on panic CPU will
+ * never continue.
+ */
+ if (panic_in_progress()) {
+ /* Keep lockdep happy. */
+ spin_release(&console_owner_dep_map, _THIS_IP_);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
raw_spin_lock(&console_owner_lock);
waiter = READ_ONCE(console_waiter);
console_owner = NULL;
