Re: [PATCH] iommu/vt-d: silence a RCU-list debugging warning

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Thu Mar 19 2020 - 10:16:24 EST


On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 01:27:53PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> On 2020/3/17 23:03, Qian Cai wrote:
> > dmar_find_atsr() calls list_for_each_entry_rcu() outside of an RCU read
> > side critical section but with dmar_global_lock held. Silence this
> > false positive.
> >
> > drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c:4504 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
> > 1 lock held by swapper/0/1:
> > #0: ffffffff9755bee8 (dmar_global_lock){+.+.}, at: intel_iommu_init+0x1a6/0xe19
> >
> > Call Trace:
> > dump_stack+0xa4/0xfe
> > lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xeb/0xf5
> > dmar_find_atsr+0x1ab/0x1c0
> > dmar_parse_one_atsr+0x64/0x220
> > dmar_walk_remapping_entries+0x130/0x380
> > dmar_table_init+0x166/0x243
> > intel_iommu_init+0x1ab/0xe19
> > pci_iommu_init+0x1a/0x44
> > do_one_initcall+0xae/0x4d0
> > kernel_init_freeable+0x412/0x4c5
> > kernel_init+0x19/0x193
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
>
> How about changing the commit subject to
> "iommu/vt-d: Silence RCU-list debugging warning in dmar_find_atsr()"?
>
> Acked-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Fixed up the subject and applied it, thanks.