4.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6039892396d845b18228935561960441900cffca upstream. With debugobjects enabled and using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, when a kmem_cache_node is destroyed the call_rcu() may trigger a slab allocation to fill the debug object pool (__debug_object_init:fill_pool). Everywhere but during kmem_cache_destroy(), discard_slab() is performed outside of the kmem_cache_node->list_lock and avoids a lockdep warning about potential recursion: ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 4.8.0-rc1-gfxbench+ #1 Tainted: G U --------------------------------------------- rmmod/8895 is trying to acquire lock: (&(&n->list_lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff811c80d7>] get_partial_node.isra.63+0x47/0x430 but task is already holding lock: (&(&n->list_lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff811cbda4>] __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x54/0x320 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(&(&n->list_lock)->rlock); lock(&(&n->list_lock)->rlock); *** DEADLOCK *** May be due to missing lock nesting notation 5 locks held by rmmod/8895: #0: (&dev->mutex){......}, at: driver_detach+0x42/0xc0 #1: (&dev->mutex){......}, at: driver_detach+0x50/0xc0 #2: (cpu_hotplug.dep_map){++++++}, at: get_online_cpus+0x2d/0x80 #3: (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: kmem_cache_destroy+0x3c/0x220 #4: (&(&n->list_lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x54/0x320 stack backtrace: CPU: 6 PID: 8895 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G U 4.8.0-rc1-gfxbench+ #1 Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H87M-D3H/H87M-D3H, BIOS F11 08/18/2015 Call Trace: __lock_acquire+0x1646/0x1ad0 lock_acquire+0xb2/0x200 _raw_spin_lock+0x36/0x50 get_partial_node.isra.63+0x47/0x430 ___slab_alloc.constprop.67+0x1a7/0x3b0 __slab_alloc.isra.64.constprop.66+0x43/0x80 kmem_cache_alloc+0x236/0x2d0 __debug_object_init+0x2de/0x400 debug_object_activate+0x109/0x1e0 __call_rcu.constprop.63+0x32/0x2f0 call_rcu+0x12/0x20 discard_slab+0x3d/0x40 __kmem_cache_shutdown+0xdb/0x320 shutdown_cache+0x19/0x60 kmem_cache_destroy+0x1ae/0x220 i915_gem_load_cleanup+0x14/0x40 [i915] i915_driver_unload+0x151/0x180 [i915] i915_pci_remove+0x14/0x20 [i915] pci_device_remove+0x34/0xb0 __device_release_driver+0x95/0x140 driver_detach+0xb6/0xc0 bus_remove_driver+0x53/0xd0 driver_unregister+0x27/0x50 pci_unregister_driver+0x25/0x70 i915_exit+0x1a/0x1e2 [i915] SyS_delete_module+0x193/0x1f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1c/0xac Fixes: 52b4b950b507 ("mm: slab: free kmem_cache_node after destroy sysfs file") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470759070-18743-1-git-send-email-chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -3479,6 +3479,7 @@ static void list_slab_objects(struct kme */ static void free_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_node *n) { + LIST_HEAD(discard); struct page *page, *h; BUG_ON(irqs_disabled()); @@ -3486,13 +3487,16 @@ static void free_partial(struct kmem_cac list_for_each_entry_safe(page, h, &n->partial, lru) { if (!page->inuse) { remove_partial(n, page); - discard_slab(s, page); + list_add(&page->lru, &discard); } else { list_slab_objects(s, page, "Objects remaining in %s on __kmem_cache_shutdown()"); } } spin_unlock_irq(&n->list_lock); + + list_for_each_entry_safe(page, h, &discard, lru) + discard_slab(s, page); } /* -- 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