while booting AM437x device, the following splat
triggered:
[ 12.005238] ===============================
[ 12.009749] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[ 12.014116] 4.2.0-next-20150831 #1154 Not tainted
[ 12.019050] -------------------------------
[ 12.023408] security/device_cgroup.c:405 device_cgroup:verify_new_ex called
without proper synchronization!
[ 12.033576] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 12.041942] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[ 12.048796] 4 locks held by systemd/1:
[ 12.052700] #0: (sb_writers#7){.+.+.+}, at: [<c017af84>]
__sb_start_write+0x8c/0xb0
[ 12.060954] #1: (&of->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c01f1600>]
kernfs_fop_write+0x50/0x1b8
[ 12.069085] #2: (s_active#30){++++.+}, at: [<c01f1608>]
kernfs_fop_write+0x58/0x1b8
[ 12.077310] #3: (devcgroup_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<c0317bfc>]
devcgroup_access_write+0x20/0x658
[ 12.086575] stack backtrace:
[ 12.091124] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.2.0-next-20150831 #1154
[ 12.098609] Hardware name: Generic AM43 (Flattened Device Tree)
[ 12.104807] [<c001770c>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0013a58>]
(show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[ 12.112924] [<c0013a58>] (show_stack) from [<c034f014>]
(dump_stack+0x84/0x9c)
[ 12.120491] [<c034f014>] (dump_stack) from [<c0317a04>]
(verify_new_ex+0xc4/0xdc)
[ 12.128326] [<c0317a04>] (verify_new_ex) from [<c0317f50>]
(devcgroup_access_write+0x374/0x658)
[ 12.137426] [<c0317f50>] (devcgroup_access_write) from [<c00d2800>]
(cgroup_file_write+0x28/0x1bc)
[ 12.146796] [<c00d2800>] (cgroup_file_write) from [<c01f1670>]
(kernfs_fop_write+0xc0/0x1b8)
[ 12.155620] [<c01f1670>] (kernfs_fop_write) from [<c0177c94>]
(__vfs_write+0x1c/0xd8)
[ 12.163783] [<c0177c94>] (__vfs_write) from [<c0178594>]
(vfs_write+0x90/0x16c)
[ 12.171426] [<c0178594>] (vfs_write) from [<c0178db4>] (SyS_write+0x44/0x9c)
[ 12.178806] [<c0178db4>] (SyS_write) from [<c000f680>]
(ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c)
Fix it by making sure rcu_read_lock() is held
around devcgroup_update_access().
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <ba...@ti.com>
---
security/device_cgroup.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c
index 73455089feef..0a6316b50357 100644
--- a/security/device_cgroup.c
+++ b/security/device_cgroup.c
@@ -766,8 +766,10 @@ static ssize_t devcgroup_access_write(struct
kernfs_open_file *of,
int retval;
mutex_lock(&devcgroup_mutex);
+ rcu_read_lock();
retval = devcgroup_update_access(css_to_devcgroup(of_css(of)),
of_cft(of)->private, strstrip(buf));
+ rcu_read_unlock();
mutex_unlock(&devcgroup_mutex);
return retval ?: nbytes;
}
--
2.5.0
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