From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit f731a8e89f8c78985707c626680f3e24c7a60772 ]
signal handling core calls show_regs() with preemption disabled which
on ARC takes mmap_sem for mm/vma access, causing lockdep splat.
| [ARCLinux]# ./segv-null-ptr
| potentially unexpected fatal signal 11.
| BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/fork.c:1011
| in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 70, name: segv-null-ptr
| no locks held by segv-null-ptr/70.
| CPU: 0 PID: 70 Comm: segv-null-ptr Not tainted 4.18.0+ #69
|
| Stack Trace:
| arc_unwind_core+0xcc/0x100
| ___might_sleep+0x17a/0x190
| mmput+0x16/0xb8
| show_regs+0x52/0x310
| get_signal+0x5ee/0x610
| do_signal+0x2c/0x218
| resume_user_mode_begin+0x90/0xd8
Workaround by re-enabling preemption temporarily.
Note that the preemption disabling in core code around show_regs()
was introduced by commit 3a9f84d354ce ("signals, debug: fix BUG: using
smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in print_fatal_signal()")
to silence a differnt lockdep seen on x86 bakc in 2009.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c b/arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c
index 5c6663321e873..215f515442e03 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c
@@ -179,6 +179,12 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
struct callee_regs *cregs;
+ /*
+ * generic code calls us with preemption disabled, but some calls
+ * here could sleep, so re-enable to avoid lockdep splat
+ */
+ preempt_enable();
+
print_task_path_n_nm(tsk);
show_regs_print_info(KERN_INFO);
@@ -221,6 +227,8 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
cregs = (struct callee_regs *)current->thread.callee_reg;
if (cregs)
show_callee_regs(cregs);
+
+ preempt_disable();
}
void show_kernel_fault_diag(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs,
--
2.20.1
