[PATCH v2] srcu: Use try-lock lockdep annotation for NMI-safe access.

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Thu Nov 30 2023 - 08:27:36 EST


It is claimed that srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() NMI-safe. However it
triggers a lockdep if used from NMI because lockdep expects a deadlock
since nothing disables NMIs while the lock is acquired.

This is because commit f0f44752f5f61 ("rcu: Annotate SRCU's update-side
lockdep dependencies") annotates synchronize_srcu() as a write lock
usage. This helps to detect a deadlocks such as
srcu_read_lock();
synchronize_srcu();
srcu_read_unlock();

The side effect is that the lock srcu_struct now has a USED usage in normal
contexts, so it conflicts with a USED_READ usage in NMI. But this shouldn't
cause a real deadlock because the write lock usage from synchronize_srcu() is a
fake one and only used for read/write deadlock detection.

Use a try-lock annotation for srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() to avoid lockdep
complains if used from NMI.

Fixes: f0f44752f5f61 ("rcu: Annotate SRCU's update-side lockdep dependencies")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927160231.XRCDDSK4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/rcupdate.h | 6 ++++++
include/linux/srcu.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index f7206b2623c98..31d523c4e0893 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -301,6 +301,11 @@ static inline void rcu_lock_acquire(struct lockdep_map *map)
lock_acquire(map, 0, 0, 2, 0, NULL, _THIS_IP_);
}

+static inline void rcu_try_lock_acquire(struct lockdep_map *map)
+{
+ lock_acquire(map, 0, 1, 2, 0, NULL, _THIS_IP_);
+}
+
static inline void rcu_lock_release(struct lockdep_map *map)
{
lock_release(map, _THIS_IP_);
@@ -315,6 +320,7 @@ int rcu_read_lock_any_held(void);
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */

# define rcu_lock_acquire(a) do { } while (0)
+# define rcu_try_lock_acquire(a) do { } while (0)
# define rcu_lock_release(a) do { } while (0)

static inline int rcu_read_lock_held(void)
diff --git a/include/linux/srcu.h b/include/linux/srcu.h
index 127ef3b2e6073..236610e4a8fa5 100644
--- a/include/linux/srcu.h
+++ b/include/linux/srcu.h
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static inline int srcu_read_lock_nmisafe(struct srcu_struct *ssp) __acquires(ssp

srcu_check_nmi_safety(ssp, true);
retval = __srcu_read_lock_nmisafe(ssp);
- rcu_lock_acquire(&ssp->dep_map);
+ rcu_try_lock_acquire(&ssp->dep_map);
return retval;
}

--
2.43.0