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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2012-05-15 08:06:19 -0700
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2012-05-15 08:08:31 -0700
commit4d82a1debbffec129cc387aafa8f40b7bbab3297 (patch)
tree64e7bc03962b99fa9b8c4cdb603d1784185a2a20 /kernel/timer.c
parent544ecf310f0e7f51fa057ac2a295fc1b3b35a9d3 (diff)
downloadlinux-4d82a1debbffec129cc387aafa8f40b7bbab3297.tar.bz2
lockdep: fix oops in processing workqueue
Under memory load, on x86_64, with lockdep enabled, the workqueue's process_one_work() has been seen to oops in __lock_acquire(), barfing on a 0xffffffff00000000 pointer in the lockdep_map's class_cache[]. Because it's permissible to free a work_struct from its callout function, the map used is an onstack copy of the map given in the work_struct: and that copy is made without any locking. Surprisingly, gcc (4.5.1 in Hugh's case) uses "rep movsl" rather than "rep movsq" for that structure copy: which might race with a workqueue user's wait_on_work() doing lock_map_acquire() on the source of the copy, putting a pointer into the class_cache[], but only in time for the top half of that pointer to be copied to the destination map. Boom when process_one_work() subsequently does lock_map_acquire() on its onstack copy of the lockdep_map. Fix this, and a similar instance in call_timer_fn(), with a lockdep_copy_map() function which additionally NULLs the class_cache[]. Note: this oops was actually seen on 3.4-next, where flush_work() newly does the racing lock_map_acquire(); but Tejun points out that 3.4 and earlier are already vulnerable to the same through wait_on_work(). * Patch orginally from Peter. Hugh modified it a bit and wrote the description. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1205070951170.1544@eggly.anvils> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/timer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/timer.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index a297ffcf888e..b12385244bb5 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1102,7 +1102,9 @@ static void call_timer_fn(struct timer_list *timer, void (*fn)(unsigned long),
* warnings as well as problems when looking into
* timer->lockdep_map, make a copy and use that here.
*/
- struct lockdep_map lockdep_map = timer->lockdep_map;
+ struct lockdep_map lockdep_map;
+
+ lockdep_copy_map(&lockdep_map, &timer->lockdep_map);
#endif
/*
* Couple the lock chain with the lock chain at