LKP has hit yet another circular locking dependency between uart
console drivers and debugobjects [1]:
CPU0 CPU1
rhltable_init()
__init_work()
debug_object_init
uart_shutdown() /* db->lock */
/* uart_port->lock */ debug_print_object()
free_page() printk()
call_console_drivers()
debug_check_no_obj_freed() /* uart_port->lock */
/* db->lock */
debug_print_object()
So there are two dependency chains:
uart_port->lock -> db->lock
And
db->lock -> uart_port->lock
This particular circular locking dependency can be addressed in several
ways:
a) One way would be to move debug_print_object() out of db->lock scope
and, thus, break the db->lock -> uart_port->lock chain.
b) Another one would be to free() transmit buffer page out of db->lock
in UART code; which is what this patch does.
It makes sense to apply a) and b) independently: there are too many things
going on behind free(), none of which depend on uart_port->lock.
The patch fixes transmit buffer page free() in uart_shutdown() and,
additionally, in uart_port_startup() (as was suggested by Dmitry Safonov).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181211091154.GL23332@shao2-debian/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <long...@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <d...@arista.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com>
---
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index c439a5a1e6c0..d4cca5bdaf1c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -205,10 +205,15 @@ static int uart_port_startup(struct tty_struct *tty,
struct uart_state *state,
if (!state->xmit.buf) {
state->xmit.buf = (unsigned char *) page;
uart_circ_clear(&state->xmit);
+ uart_port_unlock(uport, flags);
} else {
+ uart_port_unlock(uport, flags);
+ /*
+ * Do not free() the page under the port lock, see
+ * uart_shutdown().
+ */
free_page(page);
}
- uart_port_unlock(uport, flags);
retval = uport->ops->startup(uport);
if (retval == 0) {
@@ -268,6 +273,7 @@ static void uart_shutdown(struct tty_struct *tty, struct
uart_state *state)
struct uart_port *uport = uart_port_check(state);
struct tty_port *port = &state->port;
unsigned long flags = 0;
+ char *xmit_buf = NULL;
/*
* Set the TTY IO error marker
@@ -298,14 +304,18 @@ static void uart_shutdown(struct tty_struct *tty, struct
uart_state *state)
tty_port_set_suspended(port, 0);
/*
- * Free the transmit buffer page.
+ * Do not free() the transmit buffer page under the port lock since
+ * this can create various circular locking scenarios. For instance,
+ * console driver may need to allocate/free a debug object, which
+ * can endup in printk() recursion.
*/
uart_port_lock(state, flags);
- if (state->xmit.buf) {
- free_page((unsigned long)state->xmit.buf);
- state->xmit.buf = NULL;
- }
+ xmit_buf = state->xmit.buf;
+ state->xmit.buf = NULL;
uart_port_unlock(uport, flags);
+
+ if (xmit_buf)
+ free_page((unsigned long)xmit_buf);
}
/**
--
2.20.0
