Re: [PATCH v5] devcoredump : Serialize devcd_del work

[Greg KH]

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 07:33:40PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> In following scenario(diagram), when one thread X running dev_coredumpm()
> adds devcd device to the framework which sends uevent notification to
> userspace and another thread Y reads this uevent and call to
> devcd_data_write() which eventually try to delete the queued timer that
> is not initialized/queued yet.
> 
> So, debug object reports some warning and in the meantime, timer is
> initialized and queued from X path. and from Y path, it gets reinitialized
> again and timer->entry.pprev=NULL and try_to_grab_pending() stucks.
> 
> To fix this, introduce mutex and a boolean flag to serialize the behaviour.
> 
>  	cpu0(X)			                cpu1(Y)
> 
>     dev_coredump() uevent sent to user space
>     device_add()  ======================> user space process Y reads the
>                                           uevents writes to devcd fd
>                                           which results into writes to
> 
>                                          devcd_data_write()
>                                            mod_delayed_work()
>                                              try_to_grab_pending()
>                                                del_timer()
>                                                  debug_assert_init()
>    INIT_DELAYED_WORK()
>    schedule_delayed_work()
>                                                    debug_object_fixup()
>                                                      timer_fixup_assert_init()
>                                                        timer_setup()
>                                                          do_init_timer()
>                                                        /*
>                                                         Above call reinitializes
>                                                         the timer to
>                                                         timer->entry.pprev=NULL
>                                                         and this will be checked
>                                                         later in timer_pending() call.
>                                                        */
>                                                  timer_pending()
>                                                   !hlist_unhashed_lockless(&timer->entry)
>                                                     !h->pprev
>                                                 /*
>                                                   del_timer() checks h->pprev and finds
>                                                   it to be NULL due to which
>                                                   try_to_grab_pending() stucks.
>                                                 */
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2e1f81e2-428c-f11f-ce92-eb11048cb271@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

I need an ack from the devcoredump maintainer before I can take this...

thanks,

greg k-h