Re: Possible BT deadlock due to recursive read locking (Was: Re: kernel BUG at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1059)

[Mart van de Wege]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:52:12 +0200
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2017-08-30 23:25:53 [+0200], Mart van de Wege wrote:
> > Hi,  
> Hi,
> 
> > The issue persists up to v4.11.12-rt10  
> Does
> 	CONFIG_RWLOCK_RT_READER_BIASED=y
> make it go away?
> 
Yes, that does make it go away. -rt8 now boots cleanly, and works fine.
Building -rt10 now to be sure.

> > Stacktrace:
> > 
> > Aug 29 17:28:04 localhost kernel: [   46.483810] ------------[ cut
> > here ]------------ Aug 29 17:28:04 localhost kernel: [   46.483812]
> > kernel BUG at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1059!  
> 
> this is a deadlock on RT however !RT has a hidden problem which not
> yelled at by lockdep. We have the following call path:
> 
> | hci_send_monitor_ctrl_event()
> |   read_lock(&hci_sk_list.lock);
> |
> |   hci_send_to_channel()
> |      read_lock(&hci_sk_list.lock);
> 
> So both functions acquire the same read_lock. If a write comes along
> between the first read_lock() and second read_lock() then we have a
> deadlock because the write_lock() will lock down further readers from
> acquiring the read-lock until the writer completed its task.
> 
> This recursive locking was introduced in 38ceaa00d02d ("Bluetooth: Add
> support for sending MGMT commands and events to monitor").
> 
> Sebastian