Re: [syzbot] possible deadlock in ktime_get_coarse_ts64

[Dmitrii Banshchikov]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2021 at 11:32:07AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 2) bpf_spin_lock/unlock have notrace attribute set.
> 
> How is that supposed to help?
> 
> You cannot take a spinlock from NMI context if that same lock can be
> taken by other contexts as well.
> 
> Also notrace on the public function is not guaranteeing that the inlines
> (as defined) are not traceable and it does not exclude it from being
> kprobed.
> 
> > 3) bpf_timer_* helpers fail early if they are in NMI.
> >
> > Why they have to be excluded?
> 
> Because timers take locks and you can just end up in the very same
> situation that you create invers lock dependencies or deadlocks when you
> use that from a tracepoint.
> 
> hrtimer_start()
>   lock_base();
>   trace_hrtimer...()
>     perf_event()
>       bpf_run()
>         bpf_timer_start()
>           hrtimer_start()
>             lock_base()         <- DEADLOCK
> 
> Tracepoints and perf events are very limited in what they can actually
> do. Just because it's BPF these rules are not magically going away.
> 

Thanks for the clarification.


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Dmitrii Banshchikov