[PATCH] mce: fix RCU lockdep from mce_poll()

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Wed Mar 30 2011 - 22:13:50 EST


Based on the following message

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[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c:1628 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
no locks held by mcelog/2350.

stack backtrace:
Pid: 2350, comm: mcelog Tainted: G W 2.6.37-rc1+ #7
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8108e6d4>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xa4/0xc0
[<ffffffff810189e9>] mce_poll+0xa9/0xd0
[<ffffffff81160585>] do_sys_poll+0x275/0x550
[<ffffffff8115f0e0>] ? __pollwait+0x0/0xf0
[<ffffffff8115f1d0>] ? pollwake+0x0/0x60
[<ffffffff8115f1d0>] ? pollwake+0x0/0x60
[<ffffffff8130431c>] ? rcu_read_lock_held+0x2c/0x30
[<ffffffff8130549a>] ? radix_tree_lookup_element+0xda/0x100
[<ffffffff81121f08>] ? __do_fault+0x128/0x470
[<ffffffff81100bdb>] ? filemap_fault+0xdb/0x4e0
[<ffffffff810ffe75>] ? unlock_page+0x25/0x30
[<ffffffff81069ddf>] ? sigprocmask+0x3f/0x100
[<ffffffff8183672b>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x60
[<ffffffff8108fefd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x13d/0x180
[<ffffffff8108ff4d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[<ffffffff8183672b>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x60
[<ffffffff811608a7>] sys_ppoll+0x47/0x190
[<ffffffff8108fefd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x13d/0x180
[<ffffffff81835d39>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
[<ffffffff810030eb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This code is simply checking the value of the pointer, and therefore need not protect any actual dereferences.
Replace rcu_dereference_check_mce() with rcu_dereference_index_check().

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This patch reflects the summary of the activity in https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/5/236

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 5a05ef6..6cad5dc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -1626,7 +1626,8 @@ out:
static unsigned int mce_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
{
poll_wait(file, &mce_wait, wait);
- if (rcu_dereference_check_mce(mcelog.next))
+ if (rcu_dereference_index_check(mcelog.next,
+ rcu_read_lock_sched_held()))
return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM;
if (!mce_apei_read_done && apei_check_mce())
return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM;
--
1.7.1



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