It's very easy to crash the kernel right now by simply trying to enable memtrace concurrently, hammering on the "enable" interface loop.sh: #!/bin/bash dmesg --console-off while true; do echo 0x40000000 > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/enable done [root@localhost ~]# loop.sh & [root@localhost ~]# loop.sh & Resulting quickly in a kernel crash. Let's properly protect using a mutex. Fixes: 9d5171a8f248 ("powerpc/powernv: Enable removal of memory for in memory tracing") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx# v4.14+ Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c | 22 +++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c index eea1f94482ff..0e42fe2d7b6a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct memtrace_entry { char name[16]; }; +static DEFINE_MUTEX(memtrace_mutex); static u64 memtrace_size; static struct memtrace_entry *memtrace_array; @@ -279,6 +280,7 @@ static int memtrace_online(void) static int memtrace_enable_set(void *data, u64 val) { + int rc = -EAGAIN; u64 bytes; /* @@ -291,25 +293,31 @@ static int memtrace_enable_set(void *data, u64 val) return -EINVAL; } + mutex_lock(&memtrace_mutex); + /* Re-add/online previously removed/offlined memory */ if (memtrace_size) { if (memtrace_online()) - return -EAGAIN; + goto out_unlock; } - if (!val) - return 0; + if (!val) { + rc = 0; + goto out_unlock; + } /* Offline and remove memory */ if (memtrace_init_regions_runtime(val)) - return -EINVAL; + goto out_unlock; if (memtrace_init_debugfs()) - return -EINVAL; + goto out_unlock; memtrace_size = val; - - return 0; + rc = 0; +out_unlock: + mutex_unlock(&memtrace_mutex); + return rc; } static int memtrace_enable_get(void *data, u64 *val) -- 2.26.2