Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v2] printk: fix deadlock when kernel panic

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (21/02/08 16:49), Muchun Song wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 2:38 PM Sergey Senozhatsky
> <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On (21/02/06 13:41), Muchun Song wrote:
> > > We found a deadlock bug on our server when the kernel panic. It can be
> > > described in the following diagram.
> > >
> > > CPU0:                                         CPU1:
> > > panic                                         rcu_dump_cpu_stacks
> > >   kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus                      nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace
> > >     register_nmi_handler(crash_nmi_callback)      printk_safe_flush
> > >                                                     __printk_safe_flush
> > >                                                       raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock)
> > >     // send NMI to other processors
> > >     apic_send_IPI_allbutself(NMI_VECTOR)
> > >                                                         // NMI interrupt, dead loop
> > >                                                         crash_nmi_callback
> >
> > At what point does this decrement num_online_cpus()? Any chance that
> > panic CPU can apic_send_IPI_allbutself() and printk_safe_flush_on_panic()
> > before num_online_cpus() becomes 1?
>
> I took a closer look at the code. IIUC, It seems that there is no point
> which decreases num_online_cpus.

So then this never re-inits the safe_read_lock?

               if (num_online_cpus() > 1)
                       return;

               debug_locks_off();
               raw_spin_lock_init(&safe_read_lock);

	-ss