pstore_dump() is *always* invoked in atomic context (nowadays in an RCU read-side critical section, before that under a spinlock). It doesn't make sense to try to use semaphores here.

This is mostly a revert of commit ea84b580b955 ("pstore: Convert buf_lock to semaphore"), except that two parts aren't restored back exactly as they were:

- keep the lock initialization in pstore_register - in efi_pstore_write(), always set the "block" flag to false - omit "is_locked", that was unnecessary since commit 959217c84c27 ("pstore: Actually give up during locking failure") - fix the bailout message

The actual problem that the buggy commit was trying to address may have been that the use of preemptible() in efi_pstore_write() was wrong - it only looks at preempt_count() and the state of IRQs, but __rcu_read_lock() doesn't touch either of those under CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. (Sidenote: CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU means that the scheduler can preempt tasks in RCU read-side critical sections, but you're not allowed to actively block/reschedule.)

Lockdep probably never caught the problem because it's very rare that you actually hit the contended case, and lockdep can't check a

Fixes: ea84b580b955 ("pstore: Convert buf_lock to semaphore") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jann Horn jannh@google.com --- Testing on 5.15.24 (latest stable), with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, when I trigger a BUG() via LKDTM ("echo BUG > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT"), I first get the expected BUG splat, followed by this RCU warning:

Voluntary context switch within RCU read-side critical section! WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1478 at kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:316 rcu_note_context_switch+0x525/0x580 Modules linked in: CPU: 2 PID: 1478 Comm: bash Tainted: G D 5.15.24jann #90 [...] RIP: 0010:rcu_note_context_switch+0x525/0x580 Code: 08 4d 89 be 38 03 00 00 49 89 b6 40 03 00 00 48 89 3e e9 42 fd ff ff 48 c7 c7 20 a4 06 92 c6 05 ce f7 a2 01 01 e8 03 fc bc 00 <0f> 0b e9 2b fb ff ff 48 8b 73 20 c6 43 15 00 ba 01 00 00 00 48 8b RSP: 0018:ffffb27f01f8f910 EFLAGS: 00010082 RAX: 000000000000003f RBX: ffff9f5e8f6abd80 RCX: ffff9f5e8f69b608 RDX: 00000000ffffffd8 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff9f5e8f69b600 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff924d5fe8 R09: 0000000000000003 R10: ffffffff92466000 R11: 3fffffffffffffff R12: ffff9f5e8f6ab0c0 R13: ffff9f5be87b3a00 R14: 0000000000000007 R15: 0000000000000400 FS: 00007f998ba3d740(0000) GS:ffff9f5e8f680000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000055fa242279b8 CR3: 00000001602f6004 CR4: 00000000001706e0 Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x74/0x6e0 schedule+0x59/0xc0 schedule_timeout+0xf7/0x140 ? __prepare_to_swait+0x4b/0x70 wait_for_completion+0x79/0xc0 virt_efi_query_variable_info+0x141/0x150 efi_query_variable_store+0x41/0x180 efivar_entry_set_safe+0xa5/0x1f0 efi_pstore_write+0xe6/0x130 pstore_dump+0x177/0x290 ? lkdtm_BUG+0x5/0x10 kmsg_dump+0x46/0x60 oops_end+0x47/0x90 do_trap+0xcc/0x120 do_error_trap+0x65/0x80 ? lkdtm_BUG+0x5/0x10 exc_invalid_op+0x4e/0x70 ? lkdtm_BUG+0x5/0x10 asm_exc_invalid_op+0xf/0x20 RIP: 0010:lkdtm_BUG+0x5/0x10 Code: ef e8 af a3 aa ff 8b 44 24 18 5a 59 48 83 c4 10 5d c3 b8 f4 ff ff ff eb f3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 44 00 00 <0f> 0b 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 83 05 38 6b bb 01 RSP: 0018:ffffb27f01f8fe60 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: ffffffff91240710 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff9f5e8f6a7400 RSI: ffff9f5e8f69b600 RDI: ffffffff91d13550 RBP: ffffffff9218acab R08: ffffffff924d5fe8 R09: 0000000000000003 R10: 00000000fffff000 R11: 3fffffffffffffff R12: ffff9f5be87be000 R13: 0000000000000004 R14: ffffb27f01f8ff10 R15: 0000000000000004 ? lkdtm_check_bool_cmdline+0x80/0x80 direct_entry.cold+0x2c/0x37 full_proxy_write+0x53/0x80 vfs_write+0xc0/0x280 ksys_write+0x4f/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

This patch makes the RCU context warning go away.

drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c | 2 +- fs/pstore/platform.c | 36 ++++++++++++++----------------- include/linux/pstore.h | 7 +++--- 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c index 0ef086e43090..7e771c56c13c 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ static int efi_pstore_write(struct pstore_record *record) efi_name[i] = name[i];

ret = efivar_entry_set_safe(efi_name, vendor, PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES, - preemptible(), record->size, record->psi->buf); + false, record->size, record->psi->buf);

if (record->reason == KMSG_DUMP_OOPS && try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) if (!schedule_work(&efivar_work)) diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c index f243cb5e6a4f..5eafb655106d 100644 --- a/fs/pstore/platform.c +++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c @@ -143,27 +143,26 @@ static void pstore_timer_kick(void) mod_timer(&pstore_timer, jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(pstore_update_ms)); }

-/* - * Should pstore_dump() wait for a concurrent pstore_dump()? If - * not, the current pstore_dump() will report a failure to dump - * and return. - */ -static bool pstore_cannot_wait(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason) +bool pstore_cannot_block_path(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason) { - /* In NMI path, pstore shouldn't block regardless of reason. */ + /* + * In case of NMI path, pstore shouldn't be blocked + * regardless of reason. + */ if (in_nmi()) return true;

switch (reason) { /* In panic case, other cpus are stopped by smp_send_stop(). */ case KMSG_DUMP_PANIC: - /* Emergency restart shouldn't be blocked. */ + /* Emergency restart shouldn't be blocked by spin lock. */ case KMSG_DUMP_EMERG: return true; default: return false; } } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pstore_cannot_block_path);

#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PSTORE_DEFLATE_COMPRESS) static int zbufsize_deflate(size_t size) @@ -389,21 +388,19 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper, unsigned long total = 0; const char *why; unsigned int part = 1; + unsigned long flags = 0; int ret;

why = kmsg_dump_reason_str(reason);

- if (down_trylock(&psinfo->buf_lock)) { - /* Failed to acquire lock: give up if we cannot wait. */ - if (pstore_cannot_wait(reason)) { - pr_err("dump skipped in %s path: may corrupt error record\n", - in_nmi() ? "NMI" : why); - return; - } - if (down_interruptible(&psinfo->buf_lock)) { - pr_err("could not grab semaphore?!\n"); + if (pstore_cannot_block_path(reason)) { + if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags)) { + pr_err("dump skipped in %s path because of concurrent dump\n" + , in_nmi() ? "NMI" : why); return; } + } else { + spin_lock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags); }

kmsg_dump_rewind(&iter); @@ -467,8 +464,7 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper, total += record.size; part++; } - - up(&psinfo->buf_lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags); }

static struct kmsg_dumper pstore_dumper = { @@ -594,7 +590,7 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi) psi->write_user = pstore_write_user_compat; psinfo = psi; mutex_init(&psinfo->read_mutex); - sema_init(&psinfo->buf_lock, 1); + spin_lock_init(&psinfo->buf_lock);

if (psi->flags & PSTORE_FLAGS_DMESG) allocate_buf_for_compression(); diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h index eb93a54cff31..e6bd205ddc63 100644 --- a/include/linux/pstore.h +++ b/include/linux/pstore.h @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ #include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/kmsg_dump.h> #include <linux/mutex.h> -#include <linux/semaphore.h> +#include <linux/spinlock.h> #include <linux/time.h> #include <linux/types.h>

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ struct pstore_record { * @owner: module which is responsible for this backend driver * @name: name of the backend driver * - * @buf_lock: semaphore to serialize access to @buf + * @buf_lock: spinlock to serialize access to @buf * @buf: preallocated crash dump buffer * @bufsize: size of @buf available for crash dump bytes (must match * smallest number of bytes available for writing to a @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ struct pstore_info { struct module *owner; const char *name;

- struct semaphore buf_lock; + spinlock_t buf_lock; char *buf; size_t bufsize;

@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ struct pstore_info {

extern int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *); extern void pstore_unregister(struct pstore_info *); +extern bool pstore_cannot_block_path(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason);

struct pstore_ftrace_record { unsigned long ip;

base-commit: 83e396641110663d3c7bb25b9bc0c6a750359ecf