Re: drivers/nx: Invalid wait context issue when rebooting

[Vishal Chourasia]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 09:37:27PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Hi,
> > I am getting Invalid wait context warning printed when rebooting lpar
> >
> > kexec/61926 is trying to acquire `of_reconfig_chain.rwsem` while holding
> > spinlock `devdata_mutex`
> >
> > Note: Name of the spinlock is misleading.
> 
> Oof, yeah let's rename that to devdata_spinlock at least.
> 
> > In my case, I compiled a new vmlinux file and loaded it into the running
> > kernel using `kexec -l` and then hit `reboot`
> >
> > dmesg:
> > ------
> >
> > [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
> > 6.11.0-test2-10547-g684a64bf32b6-dirty #79 Not tainted
> 
> Is that v6.11 plus ~10,000 patches? O_o
> 
> Ah no, 684a64bf32b6 is roughly v6.12-rc1. Maybe if you fetch tags into
> your tree you will get a more sensible version string?
> 
> Could also be good to try v6.12-rc2.
> 
> > -----------------------------
> > kexec/61926 is trying to lock:
> > c000000002d8b590 ((of_reconfig_chain).rwsem){++++}-{4:4}, at: blocking_notifier_chain_unregister+0x44/0xa0
> > other info that might help us debug this:
> > context-{5:5}
> > 4 locks held by kexec/61926:
> >  #0: c000000002926c70 (system_transition_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: __do_sys_reboot+0xf8/0x2e0
> >  #1: c00000000291af30 (&dev->mutex){....}-{4:4}, at: device_shutdown+0x160/0x310
> >  #2: c000000051011938 (&dev->mutex){....}-{4:4}, at: device_shutdown+0x174/0x310
> >  #3: c000000002d88070 (devdata_mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: nx842_remove+0xac/0x1bc
>   
> That's pretty conclusive.
> 
> I don't understand why you're the first person to see this. I can't see
> that any of the relevant code has changed recently. Unless something in
> lockdep itself changed?
bug is thrown in the reboot path, could that be it?
I will do a bisect to verify the second part of your question.

Thanks
> 
> Did you just start seeing this on recent kernels? Can you bisect?
> 
> > stack backtrace:
> > CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 61926 Comm: kexec Not tainted 6.11.0-test2-10547-g684a64bf32b6-dirty #79
> > Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX POWER10 (architected) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NH1060_012) hv:phyp pSeries
> > Call Trace:
> > [c0000000bb577400] [c000000001239704] dump_stack_lvl+0xc8/0x130 (unreliable)
> > [c0000000bb577440] [c000000000248398] __lock_acquire+0xb68/0xf00
> > [c0000000bb577550] [c000000000248820] lock_acquire.part.0+0xf0/0x2a0
> > [c0000000bb577670] [c00000000127faa0] down_write+0x70/0x1e0
> > [c0000000bb5776b0] [c0000000001acea4] blocking_notifier_chain_unregister+0x44/0xa0
> > [c0000000bb5776e0] [c000000000e2312c] of_reconfig_notifier_unregister+0x2c/0x40
> > [c0000000bb577700] [c000000000ded24c] nx842_remove+0x148/0x1bc
> > [c0000000bb577790] [c00000000011a114] vio_bus_remove+0x54/0xc0
> > [c0000000bb5777c0] [c000000000c1a44c] device_shutdown+0x20c/0x310
> > [c0000000bb577850] [c0000000001b0ab4] kernel_restart_prepare+0x54/0x70
> > [c0000000bb577870] [c000000000308718] kernel_kexec+0xa8/0x110
> > [c0000000bb5778e0] [c0000000001b1144] __do_sys_reboot+0x214/0x2e0
> > [c0000000bb577a40] [c000000000032f98] system_call_exception+0x148/0x310
> > [c0000000bb577e50] [c00000000000cedc] system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
> 
> I don't see why of_reconfig_notifier_unregister() needs to be called
> with the devdata_mutext held, but I haven't looked that closely at it.
> 
> So the change below might work.
> 
> cheers
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c
> index 35f2d0d8507e..a2050c5fb11d 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c
> @@ -1122,10 +1122,11 @@ static void nx842_remove(struct vio_dev *viodev)
>  
>  	crypto_unregister_alg(&nx842_pseries_alg);
>  
> +	of_reconfig_notifier_unregister(&nx842_of_nb);
> +
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&devdata_mutex, flags);
>  	old_devdata = rcu_dereference_check(devdata,
>  			lockdep_is_held(&devdata_mutex));
> -	of_reconfig_notifier_unregister(&nx842_of_nb);
>  	RCU_INIT_POINTER(devdata, NULL);
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&devdata_mutex, flags);
>  	synchronize_rcu();
>