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authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>2017-09-20 13:12:20 -0600
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2017-09-25 08:56:05 -0600
commit5acb3cc2c2e9d3020a4fee43763c6463767f1572 (patch)
tree0d650e446e8e7ef738e3d2237b6778fb6ef447a4 /kernel
parent1dae69bedeeca0b57e441eae491fbd38049c0b47 (diff)
downloadlinux-5acb3cc2c2e9d3020a4fee43763c6463767f1572.tar.bz2
blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete & sysfs ops
The lockdep code had reported the following unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(s_active#228); lock(&bdev->bd_mutex/1); lock(s_active#228); lock(&bdev->bd_mutex); *** DEADLOCK *** The deadlock may happen when one task (CPU1) is trying to delete a partition in a block device and another task (CPU0) is accessing tracing sysfs file (e.g. /sys/block/dm-1/trace/act_mask) in that partition. The s_active isn't an actual lock. It is a reference count (kn->count) on the sysfs (kernfs) file. Removal of a sysfs file, however, require a wait until all the references are gone. The reference count is treated like a rwsem using lockdep instrumentation code. The fact that a thread is in the sysfs callback method or in the ioctl call means there is a reference to the opended sysfs or device file. That should prevent the underlying block structure from being removed. Instead of using bd_mutex in the block_device structure, a new blk_trace_mutex is now added to the request_queue structure to protect access to the blk_trace structure. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Fix typo in patch subject line, and prune a comment detailing how the code used to work. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/blktrace.c18
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 2a685b45b73b..45a3928544ce 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -648,6 +648,12 @@ int blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_trace_startstop);
+/*
+ * When reading or writing the blktrace sysfs files, the references to the
+ * opened sysfs or device files should prevent the underlying block device
+ * from being removed. So no further delete protection is really needed.
+ */
+
/**
* blk_trace_ioctl: - handle the ioctls associated with tracing
* @bdev: the block device
@@ -665,7 +671,7 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
if (!q)
return -ENXIO;
- mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
switch (cmd) {
case BLKTRACESETUP:
@@ -691,7 +697,7 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
break;
}
- mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
return ret;
}
@@ -1727,7 +1733,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_show(struct device *dev,
if (q == NULL)
goto out_bdput;
- mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
if (attr == &dev_attr_enable) {
ret = sprintf(buf, "%u\n", !!q->blk_trace);
@@ -1746,7 +1752,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_show(struct device *dev,
ret = sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", q->blk_trace->end_lba);
out_unlock_bdev:
- mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
out_bdput:
bdput(bdev);
out:
@@ -1788,7 +1794,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store(struct device *dev,
if (q == NULL)
goto out_bdput;
- mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
if (attr == &dev_attr_enable) {
if (value)
@@ -1814,7 +1820,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store(struct device *dev,
}
out_unlock_bdev:
- mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
out_bdput:
bdput(bdev);
out: