Sasha Levin reported:
> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
> kernel I've stumbled on the following spew:
>
> ======================================================
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
>
3.15.0-next-20140613-sasha-00026-g6dd125d-dirty #654 Not tainted
> -------------------------------------------------------
> trinity-c578/9725 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&(&pool->lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: __queue_work (kernel/workqueue.c:1346)
>
> but task is already holding lock:
> (&ctx->lock){-.....}, at: perf_event_exit_task (kernel/events/core.c:7471 kernel/events/core.c:7533)
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
> 1 lock held by trinity-c578/9725:
> #0: (&ctx->lock){-.....}, at: perf_event_exit_task (kernel/events/core.c:7471 kernel/events/core.c:7533)
>
> Call Trace:
> dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
> print_circular_bug (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1216)
> __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1840 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1945 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2131 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3182)
> lock_acquire (./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:14 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3602)
> _raw_spin_lock (include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151)
> __queue_work (kernel/workqueue.c:1346)
> queue_work_on (kernel/workqueue.c:1424)
> free_object (lib/debugobjects.c:209)
> __debug_check_no_obj_freed (lib/debugobjects.c:715)
> debug_check_no_obj_freed (lib/debugobjects.c:727)
> kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:2683 mm/slub.c:2711)
> free_task (kernel/fork.c:221)
> __put_task_struct (kernel/fork.c:250)
> put_ctx (include/linux/sched.h:1855 kernel/events/core.c:898)
> perf_event_exit_task (kernel/events/core.c:907 kernel/events/core.c:7478 kernel/events/core.c:7533)
> do_exit (kernel/exit.c:766)
> do_group_exit (kernel/exit.c:884)
> get_signal_to_deliver (kernel/signal.c:2347)
> do_signal (arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:698)
> do_notify_resume (arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:751)
> int_signal (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:600)
Urgh.. so the only way I can make that happen is through:
perf_event_exit_task_context()
raw_spin_lock(&child_ctx->lock);
unclone_ctx(child_ctx)
put_ctx(ctx->parent_ctx);
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&child_ctx->lock);
And we can avoid this by doing the change below.
I can't immediately see how this changed recently, but given that you
say it's easy to reproduce, lets fix this.
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140623141242.GB19860@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn)
{
struct perf_event *child_event, *next;
- struct perf_event_context *child_ctx;
+ struct perf_event_context *child_ctx, *parent_ctx;
unsigned long flags;
if (likely(!child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn])) {
raw_spin_lock(&child_ctx->lock);
task_ctx_sched_out(child_ctx);
child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn] = NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * In order to avoid freeing: child_ctx->parent_ctx->task
+ * under perf_event_context::lock, grab another reference.
+ */
+ parent_ctx = child_ctx->parent_ctx;
+ if (parent_ctx)
+ get_ctx(parent_ctx);
+
/*
* If this context is a clone; unclone it so it can't get
* swapped to another process while we're removing all
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&child_ctx->lock, flags);
/*
+ * Now that we no longer hold perf_event_context::lock, drop
+ * our extra child_ctx->parent_ctx reference.
+ */
+ if (parent_ctx)
+ put_ctx(parent_ctx);
+
+ /*
* Report the task dead after unscheduling the events so that we
* won't get any samples after PERF_RECORD_EXIT. We can however still
* get a few PERF_RECORD_READ events.