Re: [PATCH v2] rcu: fix a deadlock caused by not release rcu_node->lock

From: Xu, Yanfei
Date: Sun May 16 2021 - 08:33:36 EST


Hi Paul,

Should I merge this patch and the before one into one? If need please tell me and I will do it. :)
In addition, before these two patch the bug will lead a phenomenon which is "BUG: scheduling while atomic:". Because the preempt_count is disabled in tick irq while missing release the rcu_node->lock.

rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: Tasks blocked on level-1 rcu_node (CPUs 0-11):
(detected by 3, t=6504 jiffies, g=34033, q=10745911)
rcu: All QSes seen, last rcu_preempt kthread activity 28 (4295088530-4295088502), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root ->qsmask 0x1
BUG: scheduling while atomic: msgstress04/90186/0x00000002
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Modules linked in: sch_fq_codel
irq event stamp: 0
hardirqs last enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffff80001004d57c>] copy_process+0x678/0x2790
softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffff80001004d57c>] copy_process+0x678/0x2790
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
Preemption disabled at:
[<ffff800010402744>] find_and_remove_object+0x34/0xd0
CPU: 3 PID: 90186 Comm: msgstress04 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.12.2-yoctodev-standard #1
Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2cc
show_stack+0x24/0x30
dump_stack+0x110/0x188
__schedule_bug+0x100/0x114
__schedule+0xe5c/0xfd4
schedule+0x70/0x16c
do_notify_resume+0xe4/0x19d0
work_pending+0xc/0x2a8


Regards,
Yanfei

On 5/16/21 5:50 PM, yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

rcu_node->lock isn't released in rcu_print_task_stall() if the rcu_node
don't contain tasks which blocking the GP. However this rcu_node->lock
will be used again in rcu_dump_cpu_stacks() soon while the ndetected is
non-zero. As a result the cpu will hung by this deadlock.

Fixes: c583bcb8f5ed ("rcu: Don't invoke try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() with irqs disabled")
Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v1->v2:
1.change the lock function to unlock function.
2.add fixes tag.

kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
index b72311d24a9f..b09a7140ef77 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
@@ -267,8 +267,10 @@ static int rcu_print_task_stall(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags)
struct task_struct *ts[8];
lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
- if (!rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp(rnp))
+ if (!rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp(rnp)) {
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
return 0;
+ }
pr_err("\tTasks blocked on level-%d rcu_node (CPUs %d-%d):",
rnp->level, rnp->grplo, rnp->grphi);
t = list_entry(rnp->gp_tasks->prev,