Re: regulator: deadlock vs memory reclaim

[Michał Mirosław]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:56:13PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 10.08.2020 23:21, Dmitry Osipenko пишет:
> > 10.08.2020 23:18, Michał Mirosław пишет:
> >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:15:28PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> >>> 10.08.2020 23:09, Michał Mirosław пишет:
> >>>> At first I also thought so, but there's more. Below is a lockdep
> >>>> complaint with your patch applied. I did a similar patch and then two more
> >>>> (following) and that is still not enough (sysfs/debugfs do allocations,
> >>>> too).
> >>> Then it should be good to move the locking for init_coupling() like I
> >>> suggested and use GFP_NOWAIT for the two other cases. It all could be a
> >>> single small patch. Could you please check whether GFP_NOWAIT helps?
> >>
> >> This would be equivalent to my patches. Problem with sysfs and debugfs
> >> remains as they don't have the option of GFP_NOWAIT. This needs to be
> >> moved outside of the locks.
> > 
> > Ah okay, you meant the debugfs core. I see now, thanks.
> > 
> 
> This indeed needs a capital solution.
> 
> It's not obvious how to fix it.. we can probably remove taking the
> list_mutex from lock_dependent(), but this still won't help the case of
> memory reclaiming because reclaim may cause touching the already locked
> regulator. IIUC, the case of memory reclaiming under regulator lock was
> always dangerous and happened to work by chance before, correct?

I just noticed that locking in regulator_resolve_coupling() is bogus.
This all holds up because regulator_list_mutex is held during the call.
Feel free to test a patch below.

I'm working my way to push allocations outside of the locks, but the
coupling-related locking will need to be fixed regardless.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław

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[PATCH] regulator: remove superfluous lock in regulator_resolve_coupling()

The code modifies rdev, but locks c_rdev instead. The bug remains:
stored c_rdev could be freed just after unlock anyway. This doesn't blow
up because regulator_list_mutex taken outside holds it together.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/regulator/core.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 94f9225869da..e519bc9a860d 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -4859,13 +4859,9 @@ static void regulator_resolve_coupling(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
 			return;
 		}
 
-		regulator_lock(c_rdev);
-
 		c_desc->coupled_rdevs[i] = c_rdev;
 		c_desc->n_resolved++;
 
-		regulator_unlock(c_rdev);
-
 		regulator_resolve_coupling(c_rdev);
 	}
 }
-- 
2.20.1