Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Disable lockdep for driver bind/unbind files
From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Wed Dec 19 2018 - 10:23:44 EST
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 03:21:56PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 1:39 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the much more correct fix for my earlier attempt at:
> >
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/10/118
> >
> > Short recap:
> >
> > - There's not actually a locking issue, it's just lockdep being a bit
> > too eager to complain about a possible deadlock.
> >
> > - Contrary to what I claimed the real problem is recursion on
> > kn->count. Greg pointed me at sysfs_break_active_protection(), used
> > by the scsi subsystem to allow a sysfs file to unbind itself. That
> > would be a real deadlock, which isn't what's happening here. Also,
> > breaking the active protection means we'd need to manually handle
> > all the lifetime fun.
> >
> > - With Rafael we discussed the task_work approach, which kinda works,
> > but has two downsides: It's a functional change for a lockdep
> > annotation issue, and it won't work for the bind file (which needs
> > to get the errno from the driver load function back to userspace).
> >
> > - Greg also asked why this never showed up: To hit this you need to
> > unregister a 2nd driver from the unload code of your first driver. I
> > guess only gpus do that. The bug has always been there, but only
> > with a recent patch series did we add more locks so that lockdep
> > built a chain from unbinding the snd-hda driver to the
> > acpi_video_unregister call.
> >
> > Full lockdep splat:
> >
> > [12301.898799] ============================================
> > [12301.898805] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
> > [12301.898811] 4.20.0-rc7+ #84 Not tainted
> > [12301.898815] --------------------------------------------
> > [12301.898821] bash/5297 is trying to acquire lock:
> > [12301.898826] 00000000f61c6093 (kn->count#39){++++}, at: kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3b/0x80
> > [12301.898841] but task is already holding lock:
> > [12301.898847] 000000005f634021 (kn->count#39){++++}, at: kernfs_fop_write+0xdc/0x190
> > [12301.898856] other info that might help us debug this:
> > [12301.898862] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
> > [12301.898867] CPU0
> > [12301.898870] ----
> > [12301.898874] lock(kn->count#39);
> > [12301.898879] lock(kn->count#39);
> > [12301.898883] *** DEADLOCK ***
> > [12301.898891] May be due to missing lock nesting notation
> > [12301.898899] 5 locks held by bash/5297:
> > [12301.898903] #0: 00000000cd800e54 (sb_writers#4){.+.+}, at: vfs_write+0x17f/0x1b0
> > [12301.898915] #1: 000000000465e7c2 (&of->mutex){+.+.}, at: kernfs_fop_write+0xd3/0x190
> > [12301.898925] #2: 000000005f634021 (kn->count#39){++++}, at: kernfs_fop_write+0xdc/0x190
> > [12301.898936] #3: 00000000414ef7ac (&dev->mutex){....}, at: device_release_driver_internal+0x34/0x240
> > [12301.898950] #4: 000000003218fbdf (register_count_mutex){+.+.}, at: acpi_video_unregister+0xe/0x40
> > [12301.898960] stack backtrace:
> > [12301.898968] CPU: 1 PID: 5297 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.20.0-rc7+ #84
> > [12301.898974] Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook 8460p/161C, BIOS 68SCF Ver. F.01 03/11/2011
> > [12301.898982] Call Trace:
> > [12301.898989] dump_stack+0x67/0x9b
> > [12301.898997] __lock_acquire+0x6ad/0x1410
> > [12301.899003] ? kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3b/0x80
> > [12301.899010] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x90
> > [12301.899017] ? mutex_spin_on_owner+0xe4/0x150
> > [12301.899023] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x90
> > [12301.899030] ? lock_acquire+0x90/0x180
> > [12301.899036] lock_acquire+0x90/0x180
> > [12301.899042] ? kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3b/0x80
> > [12301.899049] __kernfs_remove+0x296/0x310
> > [12301.899055] ? kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3b/0x80
> > [12301.899060] ? kernfs_name_hash+0xd/0x80
> > [12301.899066] ? kernfs_find_ns+0x6c/0x100
> > [12301.899073] kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3b/0x80
> > [12301.899080] bus_remove_driver+0x92/0xa0
> > [12301.899085] acpi_video_unregister+0x24/0x40
> > [12301.899127] i915_driver_unload+0x42/0x130 [i915]
> > [12301.899160] i915_pci_remove+0x19/0x30 [i915]
> > [12301.899169] pci_device_remove+0x36/0xb0
> > [12301.899176] device_release_driver_internal+0x185/0x240
> > [12301.899183] unbind_store+0xaf/0x180
> > [12301.899189] kernfs_fop_write+0x104/0x190
> > [12301.899195] __vfs_write+0x31/0x180
> > [12301.899203] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x6f/0x80
> > [12301.899209] ? rcu_sync_lockdep_assert+0x29/0x50
> > [12301.899216] ? __sb_start_write+0x13c/0x1a0
> > [12301.899221] ? vfs_write+0x17f/0x1b0
> > [12301.899227] vfs_write+0xb9/0x1b0
> > [12301.899233] ksys_write+0x50/0xc0
> > [12301.899239] do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x180
> > [12301.899247] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
> > [12301.899253] RIP: 0033:0x7f452ac7f7a4
> > [12301.899259] Code: 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 8b 05 aa f0 2c 00 48 63 ff 85 c0 75 13 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 f3 c3 66 90 55 53 48 89 d5 48 89 f3 48 83
> > [12301.899273] RSP: 002b:00007ffceafa6918 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
> > [12301.899282] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000d RCX: 00007f452ac7f7a4
> > [12301.899288] RDX: 000000000000000d RSI: 00005612a1abf7c0 RDI: 0000000000000001
> > [12301.899295] RBP: 00005612a1abf7c0 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 00005612a1c46730
> > [12301.899301] R10: 000000000000000a R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000000d
> > [12301.899308] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007f452af4a740 R15: 000000000000000d
> >
> > Locking around I've noticed that usb and i2c already handle similar
> > recursion problems, where a sysfs file can unbind the same type of
> > sysfs somewhere else in the hierarchy. Relevant commits are:
> >
> > commit 356c05d58af05d582e634b54b40050c73609617b
> > Author: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon May 14 13:30:03 2012 -0400
> >
> > sysfs: get rid of some lockdep false positives
> >
> > commit e9b526fe704812364bca07edd15eadeba163ebfb
> > Author: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri May 17 14:56:35 2013 +0200
> >
> > i2c: suppress lockdep warning on delete_device
> >
> > Implement the same trick for driver bind/unbind.
> >
> > v2: Put the macro into bus.c (Greg).
> >
> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It would have been fine to retain the R-by:
>
> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Yeah sorry I rushed it, but Greg fixed it up for me now.
Thanks for reviewing, much appreciated.
-Daniel
>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ramalingam C <ramalingam.c@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/base/bus.c | 7 +++++--
> > include/linux/device.h | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
> > index 8bfd27ec73d6..585e2e1c9c8f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/bus.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
> > @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ static struct kset *system_kset;
> >
> > #define to_drv_attr(_attr) container_of(_attr, struct driver_attribute, attr)
> >
> > +#define DRIVER_ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \
> > + struct driver_attribute driver_attr_##_name = \
> > + __ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP(_name, _mode, _show, _store)
> >
> > static int __must_check bus_rescan_devices_helper(struct device *dev,
> > void *data);
> > @@ -195,7 +198,7 @@ static ssize_t unbind_store(struct device_driver *drv, const char *buf,
> > bus_put(bus);
> > return err;
> > }
> > -static DRIVER_ATTR_WO(unbind);
> > +static DRIVER_ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP(unbind, S_IWUSR, NULL, unbind_store);
> >
> > /*
> > * Manually attach a device to a driver.
> > @@ -231,7 +234,7 @@ static ssize_t bind_store(struct device_driver *drv, const char *buf,
> > bus_put(bus);
> > return err;
> > }
> > -static DRIVER_ATTR_WO(bind);
> > +static DRIVER_ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP(bind, S_IWUSR, NULL, bind_store);
> >
> > static ssize_t show_drivers_autoprobe(struct bus_type *bus, char *buf)
> > {
> > diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> > index 1b25c7a43f4c..41424d6e27c7 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/device.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> > @@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ struct driver_attribute {
> > #define DRIVER_ATTR_WO(_name) \
> > struct driver_attribute driver_attr_##_name = __ATTR_WO(_name)
> >
> > +
> > extern int __must_check driver_create_file(struct device_driver *driver,
> > const struct driver_attribute *attr);
> > extern void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *driver,
> > --
> > 2.20.0.rc1
> >
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch