From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch does NOT apply to the 3.12 stable tree. If you still want it applied, please provide a backport. =============== commit 397335f004f41e5fcf7a795e94eb3ab83411a17c upstream. The current deadlock detection logic does not work reliably due to the following early exit path: /* * Drop out, when the task has no waiters. Note, * top_waiter can be NULL, when we are in the deboosting * mode! */ if (top_waiter && (!task_has_pi_waiters(task) || top_waiter != task_top_pi_waiter(task))) goto out_unlock_pi; So this not only exits when the task has no waiters, it also exits unconditionally when the current waiter is not the top priority waiter of the task. So in a nested locking scenario, it might abort the lock chain walk and therefor miss a potential deadlock. Simple fix: Continue the chain walk, when deadlock detection is enabled. We also avoid the whole enqueue, if we detect the deadlock right away (A-A). It's an optimization, but also prevents that another waiter who comes in after the detection and before the task has undone the damage observes the situation and detects the deadlock and returns -EDEADLOCK, which is wrong as the other task is not in a deadlock situation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140522031949.725272460@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c index aa4dff04b594..a620d4d08ca6 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c @@ -343,9 +343,16 @@ static int rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(struct task_struct *task, * top_waiter can be NULL, when we are in the deboosting * mode! */ - if (top_waiter && (!task_has_pi_waiters(task) || - top_waiter != task_top_pi_waiter(task))) - goto out_unlock_pi; + if (top_waiter) { + if (!task_has_pi_waiters(task)) + goto out_unlock_pi; + /* + * If deadlock detection is off, we stop here if we + * are not the top pi waiter of the task. + */ + if (!detect_deadlock && top_waiter != task_top_pi_waiter(task)) + goto out_unlock_pi; + } /* * When deadlock detection is off then we check, if further @@ -361,7 +368,12 @@ static int rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(struct task_struct *task, goto retry; } - /* Deadlock detection */ + /* + * Deadlock detection. If the lock is the same as the original + * lock which caused us to walk the lock chain or if the + * current lock is owned by the task which initiated the chain + * walk, we detected a deadlock. + */ if (lock == orig_lock || rt_mutex_owner(lock) == top_task) { debug_rt_mutex_deadlock(deadlock_detect, orig_waiter, lock); raw_spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock); @@ -527,6 +539,18 @@ static int task_blocks_on_rt_mutex(struct rt_mutex *lock, unsigned long flags; int chain_walk = 0, res; + /* + * Early deadlock detection. We really don't want the task to + * enqueue on itself just to untangle the mess later. It's not + * only an optimization. We drop the locks, so another waiter + * can come in before the chain walk detects the deadlock. So + * the other will detect the deadlock and return -EDEADLOCK, + * which is wrong, as the other waiter is not in a deadlock + * situation. + */ + if (detect_deadlock && owner == task) + return -EDEADLK; + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&task->pi_lock, flags); __rt_mutex_adjust_prio(task); waiter->task = task; -- 1.9.3 -- 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