[PATCH] locking/ww_mutex: Adjust to lockdep nest_lock requirements

From: Thomas Hellström
Date: Tue Dec 19 2023 - 11:06:34 EST


When using mutex_acquire_nest() with a nest_lock, lockdep refcounts the
number of acquired lockdep_maps of mutexes of the same class, and also
keeps a pointer to the first acquired lockdep_map of a class. That pointer
is then used for various comparison-, printing- and checking purposes,
but there is no mechanism to actively ensure that lockdep_map stays in
memory. Instead, a warning is printed if the lockdep_map is freed and
there are still held locks of the same lock class, even if the lockdep_map
itself has been released.

In the context of WW/WD transactions that means that if a user unlocks
and frees a ww_mutex from within an ongoing ww transaction, and that
mutex happens to be the first ww_mutex grabbed in the transaction,
such a warning is printed and there might be a risk of a UAF.

Note that this is only problem when lockdep is enabled and affects only
dereferences of struct lockdep_map.

Adjust to this by adding a fake lockdep_map to the acquired context and
make sure it is the first acquired lockdep map of the associated
ww_mutex class. Then hold it for the duration of the WW/WD transaction.

This has the side effect that trying to lock a ww mutex *without* a
ww_acquire_context but where a such context has been acquire, we'd see
a lockdep splat. The test-ww_mutex.c selftest attempts to do that, so
modify that particular test to not acquire a ww_acquire_context if it
is not going to be used.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/ww_mutex.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.c | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ww_mutex.h b/include/linux/ww_mutex.h
index bb763085479a..a401a2f31a77 100644
--- a/include/linux/ww_mutex.h
+++ b/include/linux/ww_mutex.h
@@ -65,6 +65,16 @@ struct ww_acquire_ctx {
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
struct lockdep_map dep_map;
+ /**
+ * @first_lock_dep_map: fake lockdep_map for first locked ww_mutex.
+ *
+ * lockdep requires the lockdep_map for the first locked ww_mutex
+ * in a ww transaction to remain in memory until all ww_mutexes of
+ * the transaction have been unlocked. Ensure this by keeping a
+ * fake locked ww_mutex lockdep map between ww_acquire_init() and
+ * ww_acquire_fini().
+ */
+ struct lockdep_map first_lock_dep_map;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
unsigned int deadlock_inject_interval;
@@ -146,7 +156,10 @@ static inline void ww_acquire_init(struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx,
debug_check_no_locks_freed((void *)ctx, sizeof(*ctx));
lockdep_init_map(&ctx->dep_map, ww_class->acquire_name,
&ww_class->acquire_key, 0);
+ lockdep_init_map(&ctx->first_lock_dep_map, ww_class->mutex_name,
+ &ww_class->mutex_key, 0);
mutex_acquire(&ctx->dep_map, 0, 0, _RET_IP_);
+ mutex_acquire_nest(&ctx->first_lock_dep_map, 0, 0, &ctx->dep_map, _RET_IP_);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
ctx->deadlock_inject_interval = 1;
@@ -185,6 +198,7 @@ static inline void ww_acquire_done(struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
static inline void ww_acquire_fini(struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
+ mutex_release(&ctx->first_lock_dep_map, _THIS_IP_);
mutex_release(&ctx->dep_map, _THIS_IP_);
#endif
#ifdef DEBUG_WW_MUTEXES
diff --git a/kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.c b/kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.c
index 78719e1ef1b1..c688131ed8f4 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.c
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ static int __test_mutex(unsigned int flags)
int ret;

ww_mutex_init(&mtx.mutex, &ww_class);
- ww_acquire_init(&ctx, &ww_class);
+ if (flags & TEST_MTX_CTX)
+ ww_acquire_init(&ctx, &ww_class);

INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(&mtx.work, test_mutex_work);
init_completion(&mtx.ready);
@@ -90,7 +91,8 @@ static int __test_mutex(unsigned int flags)
ret = wait_for_completion_timeout(&mtx.done, TIMEOUT);
}
ww_mutex_unlock(&mtx.mutex);
- ww_acquire_fini(&ctx);
+ if (flags & TEST_MTX_CTX)
+ ww_acquire_fini(&ctx);

if (ret) {
pr_err("%s(flags=%x): mutual exclusion failure\n",
--
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