[PATCH] dump_stack: avoid potential deadlocks

[Eric Dumazet]

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Some servers experienced fatal deadlocks because of a combination
of bugs, leading to multiple cpus calling dump_stack().

The checksumming bug was fixed in commit 34ae6a1aa054
("ipv6: update skb->csum when CE mark is propagated").

The second problem is a faulty locking in dump_stack()

CPU1 runs in process context and calls dump_stack(), grabs dump_lock.

   CPU2 receives a TCP packet under softirq, grabs socket spinlock, and
   call dump_stack() from netdev_rx_csum_fault().

   dump_stack() spins on atomic_cmpxchg(&dump_lock, -1, 2), since
   dump_lock is owned by CPU1

While dumping its stack, CPU1 is interrupted by a softirq, and happens
to process a packet for the TCP socket locked by CPU2.

CPU1 spins forever in spin_lock() : deadlock

Stack trace on CPU1 looked like :

[306295.402231] NMI backtrace for cpu 1
[306295.402238] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa9804e95>]  [<ffffffffa9804e95>] _raw_spin_lock+0x25/0x30
...
[306295.402255] Stack:
[306295.402256]  ffff88407f023cb0 ffffffffa99cbdc3 ffff88407f023ca0 ffff88012f496bb0
[306295.402266]  ffffffffaa4dc1f0 ffff8820d94f0dc0 000000000000000a ffffffffaa4b4280
[306295.402275]  ffff88407f023ce0 ffffffffa98a21d0 ffff88407f023cc0 ffff88407f023ca0
[306295.402284] Call Trace:
[306295.402286]  <IRQ> 
[306295.402288] 
[306295.402291]  [<ffffffffa99cbdc3>] tcp_v6_rcv+0x243/0x620
[306295.402304]  [<ffffffffa99c38af>] ip6_input_finish+0x11f/0x330
[306295.402309]  [<ffffffffa99c3b38>] ip6_input+0x38/0x40
[306295.402313]  [<ffffffffa99c3b7c>] ip6_rcv_finish+0x3c/0x90
[306295.402318]  [<ffffffffa99c3e79>] ipv6_rcv+0x2a9/0x500
[306295.402323]  [<ffffffffa989a1a1>] process_backlog+0x461/0xaa0
[306295.402332]  [<ffffffffa9899a57>] net_rx_action+0x147/0x430
[306295.402337]  [<ffffffffa980cca7>] __do_softirq+0x167/0x2d0
[306295.402341]  [<ffffffffa9d912dc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[306295.402345]  [<ffffffffa980687f>] do_softirq+0x3f/0x80
[306295.402350]  [<ffffffffa980cf7e>] irq_exit+0x6e/0xc0
[306295.402355]  [<ffffffffa980a5b5>] smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x35/0x40
[306295.402360]  [<ffffffffa9d90bfa>] call_function_single_interrupt+0x6a/0x70
[306295.402361]  <EOI> 
[306295.402364] 
[306295.402376]  [<ffffffffa9a3fa32>] printk+0x4d/0x4f
[306295.402390]  [<ffffffffa99e1726>] printk_address+0x31/0x33
[306295.402395]  [<ffffffffa99e175b>] print_trace_address+0x33/0x3c
[306295.402408]  [<ffffffffa99e165b>] print_context_stack+0x7f/0x119
[306295.402412]  [<ffffffffa99e07f1>] dump_trace+0x26b/0x28e
[306295.402417]  [<ffffffffa99e17b3>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x4f/0x5c
[306295.402421]  [<ffffffffa99e0a14>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x104/0x113
[306295.402425]  [<ffffffffa99e1819>] show_stack+0x42/0x44
[306295.402429]  [<ffffffffa9ba350a>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58
[306295.402434]  [<ffffffffa9d0957d>] netdev_rx_csum_fault+0x38/0x3c
[306295.402439]  [<ffffffffa9988e0e>] __skb_checksum_complete_head+0x6e/0x80
[306295.402444]  [<ffffffffa9988e31>] __skb_checksum_complete+0x11/0x20
[306295.402449]  [<ffffffffa98acf65>] tcp_rcv_established+0x2bd5/0x2fd0
[306295.402468]  [<ffffffffa99cb69c>] tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x13c/0x620
[306295.402477]  [<ffffffffa9984be5>] sk_backlog_rcv+0x15/0x30
[306295.402482]  [<ffffffffa98931e2>] release_sock+0xd2/0x150
[306295.402486]  [<ffffffffa98a51b1>] tcp_recvmsg+0x1c1/0xfc0
[306295.402491]  [<ffffffffa98b637d>] inet_recvmsg+0x7d/0x90
[306295.402495]  [<ffffffffa9891fcf>] sock_recvmsg+0xaf/0xe0
[306295.402505]  [<ffffffffa9892611>] ___sys_recvmsg+0x111/0x3b0
[306295.402528]  [<ffffffffa9892f5c>] SyS_recvmsg+0x5c/0xb0
[306295.402532]  [<ffffffffa9d8fba2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b


Fixes: b58d977432c8 ("dump_stack: serialize the output from dump_stack()")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx>
---
 lib/dump_stack.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/dump_stack.c b/lib/dump_stack.c
index 6745c6230db3..c30d07e99dba 100644
--- a/lib/dump_stack.c
+++ b/lib/dump_stack.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ static atomic_t dump_lock = ATOMIC_INIT(-1);
 
 asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
 	int was_locked;
 	int old;
 	int cpu;
@@ -33,9 +34,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)
 	 * Permit this cpu to perform nested stack dumps while serialising
 	 * against other CPUs
 	 */
-	preempt_disable();
-
 retry:
+	local_irq_save(flags);
 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	old = atomic_cmpxchg(&dump_lock, -1, cpu);
 	if (old == -1) {
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ retry:
 	} else if (old == cpu) {
 		was_locked = 1;
 	} else {
+		local_irq_restore(flags);
 		cpu_relax();
 		goto retry;
 	}
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ retry:
 	if (!was_locked)
 		atomic_set(&dump_lock, -1);
 
-	preempt_enable();
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 #else
 asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)