Re: possible deadlock in send_sigio

From: Boqun Feng
Date: Fri Jun 12 2020 - 03:01:27 EST


On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 07:55:26AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> Hi Peter and Waiman,
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:09:59PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > On 6/11/20 10:22 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 09:51:29AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > >
> > > > There was an old lockdep patch that I think may address the issue, but was
> > > > not merged at the time. I will need to dig it out and see if it can be
> > > > adapted to work in the current kernel. It may take some time.
> > > Boqun was working on that; I can't remember what happened, but ISTR it
> > > was shaping up nice.
> > >
> > Yes, I am talking about Boqun's patch. However, I think he had moved to
> > another company and so may not be able to actively work on that again.
> >
>
> I think you are talking about the rescursive read deadlock detection
> patchset:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180411135110.9217-1-boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> Let me have a good and send a new version based on today's master of tip
> tree.
>

FWIW, with the following patch, I think we can avoid to the false
positives. But solely with this patch, we don't have the ability to
detect deadlocks with recursive locks..

I've managed to rebase my patchset, but need some time to tweak it to
work properly, in the meantime, Dmitry, could you give this a try?

Regards,
Boqun

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Subject: [PATCH] locking: More accurate annotations for read_lock()

On the archs using QUEUED_RWLOCKS, read_lock() is not always a recursive
read lock, actually it's only recursive if in_interrupt() is true. So
change the annotation accordingly to catch more deadlocks.

Note we used to treat read_lock() as pure recursive read locks in
lib/locking-seftest.c, and this is useful, especially for the lockdep
development selftest, so we keep this via a variable to force switching
lock annotation for read_lock().

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/lockdep.h | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
lib/locking-selftest.c | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h
index 8fce5c98a4b0..50aedbba0812 100644
--- a/include/linux/lockdep.h
+++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ enum lockdep_wait_type {
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
#include <linux/stacktrace.h>
+#include <linux/preempt.h>

/*
* We'd rather not expose kernel/lockdep_states.h this wide, but we do need
@@ -640,6 +641,31 @@ static inline void print_irqtrace_events(struct task_struct *curr)
}
#endif

+/* Variable used to make lockdep treat read_lock() as recursive in selftests */
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
+extern unsigned int force_read_lock_recursive;
+#else /* CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS */
+#define force_read_lock_recursive 0
+#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
+/*
+ * read_lock() is recursive if:
+ * 1. We force lockdep think this way in selftests or
+ * 2. The implementation is not queued read/write lock or
+ * 3. The locker is at an in_interrupt() context.
+ */
+static inline bool read_lock_is_recursive(void)
+{
+ return force_read_lock_recursive ||
+ !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_QUEUED_RWLOCKS) ||
+ in_interrupt();
+}
+#else /* CONFIG_LOCKDEP */
+/* If !LOCKDEP, the value is meaningless */
+#define read_lock_is_recursive() 0
+#endif
+
/*
* For trivial one-depth nesting of a lock-class, the following
* global define can be used. (Subsystems with multiple levels
@@ -661,7 +687,14 @@ static inline void print_irqtrace_events(struct task_struct *curr)
#define spin_release(l, i) lock_release(l, i)

#define rwlock_acquire(l, s, t, i) lock_acquire_exclusive(l, s, t, NULL, i)
-#define rwlock_acquire_read(l, s, t, i) lock_acquire_shared_recursive(l, s, t, NULL, i)
+#define rwlock_acquire_read(l, s, t, i) \
+do { \
+ if (read_lock_is_recursive()) \
+ lock_acquire_shared_recursive(l, s, t, NULL, i); \
+ else \
+ lock_acquire_shared(l, s, t, NULL, i); \
+} while (0)
+
#define rwlock_release(l, i) lock_release(l, i)

#define seqcount_acquire(l, s, t, i) lock_acquire_exclusive(l, s, t, NULL, i)
diff --git a/lib/locking-selftest.c b/lib/locking-selftest.c
index 14f44f59e733..caadc4dd3368 100644
--- a/lib/locking-selftest.c
+++ b/lib/locking-selftest.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
* Change this to 1 if you want to see the failure printouts:
*/
static unsigned int debug_locks_verbose;
+unsigned int force_read_lock_recursive;

static DEFINE_WD_CLASS(ww_lockdep);

@@ -1978,6 +1979,11 @@ void locking_selftest(void)
return;
}

+ /*
+ * treats read_lock() as recursive read locks for testing purpose
+ */
+ force_read_lock_recursive = 1;
+
/*
* Run the testsuite:
*/
@@ -2073,6 +2079,11 @@ void locking_selftest(void)

ww_tests();

+ force_read_lock_recursive = 0;
+ /*
+ * queued_read_lock() specific test cases can be put here
+ */
+
if (unexpected_testcase_failures) {
printk("-----------------------------------------------------------------\n");
debug_locks = 0;
--
2.26.2