[PATCH] panic: Reenable preemption in WARN slowpath

From: Lukas Wunner
Date: Fri Sep 15 2023 - 04:05:02 EST


Commit 5a5d7e9badd2 ("cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during
WARN/BUG") amended warn_slowpath_fmt() to disable preemption until the
WARN splat has been emitted.

However the commit neglected to reenable preemption in the !fmt codepath,
i.e. when a WARN splat is emitted without additional format string.

One consequence is that users may see more splats than intended. E.g. a
WARN splat emitted in a work item results in at least two extra splats:

BUG: workqueue leaked lock or atomic
(emitted by process_one_work())

BUG: scheduling while atomic
(emitted by worker_thread() -> schedule())

Ironically the point of the commit was to *avoid* extra splats. ;)

Fix it.

Fixes: 5a5d7e9badd2 ("cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.1+
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
The original commit went in through the tip tree, hence submitting to
tip maintainers. The commit was backported to v6.1-stable (even though
it wasn't tagged for stable), hence this fix needs a stable designation.

kernel/panic.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 07239d4..ffa037fa 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ void warn_slowpath_fmt(const char *file, int line, unsigned taint,
if (!fmt) {
__warn(file, line, __builtin_return_address(0), taint,
NULL, NULL);
+ warn_rcu_exit(rcu);
return;
}

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2.39.2