Re: [PATCH] kgdb: Don't call the deinit under spinlock

[Daniel Thompson]

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 02:20:06PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> When I combined kgdboc_earlycon with an inflight patch titled ("soc:
> qcom-geni-se: Add interconnect support to fix earlycon crash") [1]
> things went boom.  Specifically I got a crash during the transition
> between kgdboc_earlycon and the main kgdboc that looked like this:
> 
> Call trace:
>  <snip>
>  ...
> 
> The problem was that we were holding the "kgdb_registration_lock"
> while calling into code that didn't expect to be called in spinlock
> context.
> 
> Let's slightly defer when we call the deinit code so that it's not
> done under spinlock.
> 
> NOTE: this does mean that the "deinit" call of the old kgdb IO module
> is now made _after_ the init of the new IO module, but presumably
> that's OK.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1588919619-21355-3-git-send-email-akashast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Fixes: 220995622da5 ("kgdboc: Add kgdboc_earlycon to support early kgdb using boot consoles")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Just found this in my inbox... which suggested I forgot to post an
"Applied" last week when I pushed it for linux-next.

Expect the kgdb PR for this cycle shortly!


Daniel.


> ---
> 
>  kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
> index 4d59aa907fdc..ef94e906f05a 100644
> --- a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
> @@ -1089,7 +1089,6 @@ int kgdb_register_io_module(struct kgdb_io *new_dbg_io_ops)
>  		}
>  		pr_info("Replacing I/O driver %s with %s\n",
>  			old_dbg_io_ops->name, new_dbg_io_ops->name);
> -		old_dbg_io_ops->deinit();
>  	}
>  
>  	if (new_dbg_io_ops->init) {
> @@ -1104,8 +1103,10 @@ int kgdb_register_io_module(struct kgdb_io *new_dbg_io_ops)
>  
>  	spin_unlock(&kgdb_registration_lock);
>  
> -	if (old_dbg_io_ops)
> +	if (old_dbg_io_ops) {
> +		old_dbg_io_ops->deinit();
>  		return 0;
> +	}
>  
>  	pr_info("Registered I/O driver %s\n", new_dbg_io_ops->name);
>  
> -- 
> 2.27.0.rc0.183.gde8f92d652-goog
>