From 4d82a1debbffec129cc387aafa8f40b7bbab3297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 08:06:19 -0700 Subject: lockdep: fix oops in processing workqueue Under memory load, on x86_64, with lockdep enabled, the workqueue's process_one_work() has been seen to oops in __lock_acquire(), barfing on a 0xffffffff00000000 pointer in the lockdep_map's class_cache[]. Because it's permissible to free a work_struct from its callout function, the map used is an onstack copy of the map given in the work_struct: and that copy is made without any locking. Surprisingly, gcc (4.5.1 in Hugh's case) uses "rep movsl" rather than "rep movsq" for that structure copy: which might race with a workqueue user's wait_on_work() doing lock_map_acquire() on the source of the copy, putting a pointer into the class_cache[], but only in time for the top half of that pointer to be copied to the destination map. Boom when process_one_work() subsequently does lock_map_acquire() on its onstack copy of the lockdep_map. Fix this, and a similar instance in call_timer_fn(), with a lockdep_copy_map() function which additionally NULLs the class_cache[]. Note: this oops was actually seen on 3.4-next, where flush_work() newly does the racing lock_map_acquire(); but Tejun points out that 3.4 and earlier are already vulnerable to the same through wait_on_work(). * Patch orginally from Peter. Hugh modified it a bit and wrote the description. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Reported-by: Hugh Dickins LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- include/linux/lockdep.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/lockdep.h') diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h index d36619ead3ba..00e46376e28f 100644 --- a/include/linux/lockdep.h +++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h @@ -157,6 +157,24 @@ struct lockdep_map { #endif }; +static inline void lockdep_copy_map(struct lockdep_map *to, + struct lockdep_map *from) +{ + int i; + + *to = *from; + /* + * Since the class cache can be modified concurrently we could observe + * half pointers (64bit arch using 32bit copy insns). Therefore clear + * the caches and take the performance hit. + * + * XXX it doesn't work well with lockdep_set_class_and_subclass(), since + * that relies on cache abuse. + */ + for (i = 0; i < NR_LOCKDEP_CACHING_CLASSES; i++) + to->class_cache[i] = NULL; +} + /* * Every lock has a list of other locks that were taken after it. * We only grow the list, never remove from it: -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b