The standard printk() tries to flush the message to the console immediately. It tries to take the console lock. If the lock is already taken then the current owner is responsible for flushing even the new message.
There is a small race window between checking whether a new message is available and releasing the console lock. It is solved by re-checking the state after releasing the console lock. If the check is positive then console_unlock() tries to take the lock again and process the new message as well.
The commit 996e966640ddea7b535c ("printk: remove logbuf_lock") causes that console_seq is not longer read atomically. As a result, the re-check might be done with an inconsistent 64-bit index.
Solve it by using the last sequence number that has been checked under the console lock. In the worst case, it will take the lock again only to realized that the new message has already been proceed. But it was possible even before.
The variable next_seq is marked as __maybe_unused to call down compiler warning when CONFIG_PRINTK is not defined.
Fixes: commit 996e966640ddea7b535c ("printk: remove logbuf_lock") Reported-by: kernel test robot lkp@intel.com # unused next_seq warning Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.13 Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek pmladek@suse.com Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky senozhatsky@chromium.org --- Changes in v2:
- fixed warning about unused next_seq variable reported by kernel test robot
kernel/printk/printk.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index 142a58d124d9..6dad7da8f383 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -2545,6 +2545,7 @@ void console_unlock(void) bool do_cond_resched, retry; struct printk_info info; struct printk_record r; + u64 __maybe_unused next_seq;
if (console_suspended) { up_console_sem(); @@ -2654,8 +2655,10 @@ void console_unlock(void) cond_resched(); }
- console_locked = 0; + /* Get consistent value of the next-to-be-used sequence number. */ + next_seq = console_seq;
+ console_locked = 0; up_console_sem();
/* @@ -2664,7 +2667,7 @@ void console_unlock(void) * there's a new owner and the console_unlock() from them will do the * flush, no worries. */ - retry = prb_read_valid(prb, console_seq, NULL); + retry = prb_read_valid(prb, next_seq, NULL); printk_safe_exit_irqrestore(flags);
if (retry && console_trylock())