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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2010-02-02 15:32:09 +0800
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2010-02-02 10:20:18 -0500
commit4f48f8b7fd18c44f8478174f9925cc3c059c6ce4 (patch)
tree94eb6ad3dcf1d381d7b2bc81b3883d6cde98f3ba /kernel
parentab658321f32770b903a4426e2a6fae0392757755 (diff)
downloadlinux-4f48f8b7fd18c44f8478174f9925cc3c059c6ce4.tar.bz2
tracing: Fix circular dead lock in stack trace
When we cat <debugfs>/tracing/stack_trace, we may cause circular lock: sys_read() t_start() arch_spin_lock(&max_stack_lock); t_show() seq_printf(), vsnprintf() .... /* they are all trace-able, when they are traced, max_stack_lock may be required again. */ The following script can trigger this circular dead lock very easy: #!/bin/bash echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled mount -t debugfs xxx /mnt > /dev/null 2>&1 ( # make check_stack() zealous to require max_stack_lock for ((; ;)) { echo 1 > /mnt/tracing/stack_max_size } ) & for ((; ;)) { cat /mnt/tracing/stack_trace > /dev/null } To fix this bug, we increase the percpu trace_active before require the lock. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B67D4F9.9080905@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_stack.c24
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
index 678a5120ee30..f4bc9b27de5f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ stack_max_size_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
unsigned long val, flags;
char buf[64];
int ret;
+ int cpu;
if (count >= sizeof(buf))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -171,9 +172,20 @@ stack_max_size_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
return ret;
local_irq_save(flags);
+
+ /*
+ * In case we trace inside arch_spin_lock() or after (NMI),
+ * we will cause circular lock, so we also need to increase
+ * the percpu trace_active here.
+ */
+ cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)++;
+
arch_spin_lock(&max_stack_lock);
*ptr = val;
arch_spin_unlock(&max_stack_lock);
+
+ per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)--;
local_irq_restore(flags);
return count;
@@ -206,7 +218,13 @@ t_next(struct seq_file *m, void *v, loff_t *pos)
static void *t_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
{
+ int cpu;
+
local_irq_disable();
+
+ cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)++;
+
arch_spin_lock(&max_stack_lock);
if (*pos == 0)
@@ -217,7 +235,13 @@ static void *t_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
static void t_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
{
+ int cpu;
+
arch_spin_unlock(&max_stack_lock);
+
+ cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)--;
+
local_irq_enable();
}