[PATCH] lockdep: report broken irq restoration

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Wed Dec 09 2020 - 13:34:51 EST


We generally expect local_irq_save() and local_irq_restore() to be
paired and sanely nested, and so local_irq_restore() expects to be
called with irqs disabled. Thus, within local_irq_restore() we only
trace irq flag changes when unmasking irqs.

This means that a seuence such as:

| local_irq_disable();
| local_irq_save(flags);
| local_irq_enable();
| local_irq_restore(flags);

... is liable to break things, as the local_irq_restore() would mask
IRQs without tracing this change.

We don't consider such sequences to be a good idea, so let's define
those as forbidden, and add tooling to detect such broken cases.

This patch adds debug code to WARN() when local_irq_restore() is called
with irqs enabled. As local_irq_restore() is expected to pair with
local_irq_save(), it should never be called with interrupts enabled.

To avoid the possibility of circular header dependencies beteen
irqflags.h and bug.h, the warning is handled in a separate C file.

The new code is all conditional on a new CONFIG_DEBUG_IRQFLAGS symbol
which is independent of CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS. As noted above such cases
will confuse lockdep, so CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP now selects
CONFIG_DEBUG_IRQFLAGS.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/irqflags.h | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
kernel/locking/Makefile | 1 +
kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c | 12 ++++++++++++
lib/Kconfig.debug | 7 +++++++
4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c

Note: as things stand this'll blow up at boot-time on x86 within the io-apic
timer_irq_works() boot-time test. I've proposed a fix for that:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201209181514.GA14235@C02TD0UTHF1T.local/

... which was sufficient for booting under QEMU without splats. I'm giving this
a soak under Syzkaller on arm64 as that booted cleanly to begin with.

Mark.

diff --git a/include/linux/irqflags.h b/include/linux/irqflags.h
index 3ed4e8771b64..bca3c6fa8270 100644
--- a/include/linux/irqflags.h
+++ b/include/linux/irqflags.h
@@ -220,10 +220,26 @@ do { \

#else /* !CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS */

+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_IRQFLAGS
+extern void warn_bogus_irq_restore(bool *warned);
+#define check_bogus_irq_restore() \
+ do { \
+ static bool __section(".data.once") __warned; \
+ if (unlikely(!raw_irqs_disabled())) \
+ warn_bogus_irq_restore(&__warned); \
+ } while (0)
+#else
+#define check_bogus_irq_restore() do { } while (0)
+#endif
+
#define local_irq_enable() do { raw_local_irq_enable(); } while (0)
#define local_irq_disable() do { raw_local_irq_disable(); } while (0)
#define local_irq_save(flags) do { raw_local_irq_save(flags); } while (0)
-#define local_irq_restore(flags) do { raw_local_irq_restore(flags); } while (0)
+#define local_irq_restore(flags) \
+ do { \
+ check_bogus_irq_restore(); \
+ raw_local_irq_restore(flags); \
+ } while (0)
#define safe_halt() do { raw_safe_halt(); } while (0)

#endif /* CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS */
diff --git a/kernel/locking/Makefile b/kernel/locking/Makefile
index 6d11cfb9b41f..8838f1d7c4a2 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/locking/Makefile
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_mutex-debug.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
CFLAGS_REMOVE_rtmutex-debug.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
endif

+obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_IRQFLAGS) += irqflag-debug.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES) += mutex-debug.o
obj-$(CONFIG_LOCKDEP) += lockdep.o
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PROC_FS),y)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c b/kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3024c6837ac2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+#include <linux/bug.h>
+
+void warn_bogus_irq_restore(bool *warned)
+{
+ if (*warned)
+ return;
+
+ *warned = true;
+ WARN(1, "local_irq_restore() called with IRQs enabled\n");
+}
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index c789b39ed527..f7895d57bb08 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1312,6 +1312,7 @@ config LOCKDEP_SMALL
config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
+ select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS
help
If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
@@ -1400,6 +1401,12 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI
depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS
depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT

+config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS
+ bool "Interrupt mask debugging"
+ help
+ Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of
+ interrupts.
+
config STACKTRACE
bool "Stack backtrace support"
depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
--
2.11.0