[PATCH] module: Do a WARN_ON_ONCE() for assert module mutex not held

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Jul 12 2016 - 09:15:59 EST


When running with lockdep enabled, I triggered the WARN_ON() in the
module code that asserts when module_mutex or rcu_read_lock_sched are
not held. The issue I have is that this can also be called from the
dump_stack() code, causing us to enter an infinite loop...

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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e
Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14
Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014
ffff880215e8fa70 ffff880215e8fa70 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000
ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8fac0 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab
0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90
[<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9
[<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e
Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14
Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014
ffff880215e8f7a0 ffff880215e8f7a0 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000
ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8f7f0 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab
0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90
[<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9
[<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e
Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14
Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014
ffff880215e8f4d0 ffff880215e8f4d0 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000
ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8f520 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab
0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90
[<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9
[<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e
[...]

Which gives us rather useless information. Worse yet, there's some race
that causes this, and I seldom trigger it, so I have no idea what
happened.

This would not be an issue if that warning was a WARN_ON_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 5f71aa63ed2a..51c89d86752c 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ static void module_assert_mutex_or_preempt(void)
if (unlikely(!debug_locks))
return;

- WARN_ON(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() &&
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() &&
!lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex));
#endif
}