This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dump_stack: avoid potential deadlocks to the 3.14-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: dump_stack-avoid-potential-deadlocks.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d7ce36924344ace0dbdc855b1206cacc46b36d45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:36:16 -0800 Subject: dump_stack: avoid potential deadlocks From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d7ce36924344ace0dbdc855b1206cacc46b36d45 upstream. Some servers experienced fatal deadlocks because of a combination of bugs, leading to multiple cpus calling dump_stack(). The checksumming bug was fixed in commit 34ae6a1aa054 ("ipv6: update skb->csum when CE mark is propagated"). The second problem is a faulty locking in dump_stack() CPU1 runs in process context and calls dump_stack(), grabs dump_lock. CPU2 receives a TCP packet under softirq, grabs socket spinlock, and call dump_stack() from netdev_rx_csum_fault(). dump_stack() spins on atomic_cmpxchg(&dump_lock, -1, 2), since dump_lock is owned by CPU1 While dumping its stack, CPU1 is interrupted by a softirq, and happens to process a packet for the TCP socket locked by CPU2. CPU1 spins forever in spin_lock() : deadlock Stack trace on CPU1 looked like : NMI backtrace for cpu 1 RIP: _raw_spin_lock+0x25/0x30 ... Call Trace: <IRQ> tcp_v6_rcv+0x243/0x620 ip6_input_finish+0x11f/0x330 ip6_input+0x38/0x40 ip6_rcv_finish+0x3c/0x90 ipv6_rcv+0x2a9/0x500 process_backlog+0x461/0xaa0 net_rx_action+0x147/0x430 __do_softirq+0x167/0x2d0 call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 do_softirq+0x3f/0x80 irq_exit+0x6e/0xc0 smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x35/0x40 call_function_single_interrupt+0x6a/0x70 <EOI> printk+0x4d/0x4f printk_address+0x31/0x33 print_trace_address+0x33/0x3c print_context_stack+0x7f/0x119 dump_trace+0x26b/0x28e show_trace_log_lvl+0x4f/0x5c show_stack_log_lvl+0x104/0x113 show_stack+0x42/0x44 dump_stack+0x46/0x58 netdev_rx_csum_fault+0x38/0x3c __skb_checksum_complete_head+0x6e/0x80 __skb_checksum_complete+0x11/0x20 tcp_rcv_established+0x2bd5/0x2fd0 tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x13c/0x620 sk_backlog_rcv+0x15/0x30 release_sock+0xd2/0x150 tcp_recvmsg+0x1c1/0xfc0 inet_recvmsg+0x7d/0x90 sock_recvmsg+0xaf/0xe0 ___sys_recvmsg+0x111/0x3b0 SyS_recvmsg+0x5c/0xb0 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Fixes: b58d977432c8 ("dump_stack: serialize the output from dump_stack()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/dump_stack.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/lib/dump_stack.c +++ b/lib/dump_stack.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ static atomic_t dump_lock = ATOMIC_INIT( asmlinkage void dump_stack(void) { + unsigned long flags; int was_locked; int old; int cpu; @@ -33,9 +34,8 @@ asmlinkage void dump_stack(void) * Permit this cpu to perform nested stack dumps while serialising * against other CPUs */ - preempt_disable(); - retry: + local_irq_save(flags); cpu = smp_processor_id(); old = atomic_cmpxchg(&dump_lock, -1, cpu); if (old == -1) { @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ retry: } else if (old == cpu) { was_locked = 1; } else { + local_irq_restore(flags); cpu_relax(); goto retry; } @@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ retry: if (!was_locked) atomic_set(&dump_lock, -1); - preempt_enable(); + local_irq_restore(flags); } #else asmlinkage void dump_stack(void) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/dump_stack-avoid-potential-deadlocks.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html