111 lines
4.8 KiB
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111 lines
4.8 KiB
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Lockdep-RCU was added to the Linux kernel in early 2010
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(http://lwn.net/Articles/371986/). This facility checks for some common
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misuses of the RCU API, most notably using one of the rcu_dereference()
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family to access an RCU-protected pointer without the proper protection.
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When such misuse is detected, an lockdep-RCU splat is emitted.
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The usual cause of a lockdep-RCU slat is someone accessing an
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RCU-protected data structure without either (1) being in the right kind of
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RCU read-side critical section or (2) holding the right update-side lock.
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This problem can therefore be serious: it might result in random memory
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overwriting or worse. There can of course be false positives, this
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being the real world and all that.
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So let's look at an example RCU lockdep splat from 3.0-rc5, one that
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has long since been fixed:
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[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
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-------------------------------
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block/cfq-iosched.c:2776 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
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other info that might help us debug this:
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rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
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3 locks held by scsi_scan_6/1552:
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#0: (&shost->scan_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8145efca>]
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scsi_scan_host_selected+0x5a/0x150
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#1: (&eq->sysfs_lock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff812a5032>]
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elevator_exit+0x22/0x60
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#2: (&(&q->__queue_lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff812b6233>]
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cfq_exit_queue+0x43/0x190
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stack backtrace:
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Pid: 1552, comm: scsi_scan_6 Not tainted 3.0.0-rc5 #17
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Call Trace:
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[<ffffffff810abb9b>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xbb/0xc0
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[<ffffffff812b6139>] __cfq_exit_single_io_context+0xe9/0x120
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[<ffffffff812b626c>] cfq_exit_queue+0x7c/0x190
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[<ffffffff812a5046>] elevator_exit+0x36/0x60
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[<ffffffff812a802a>] blk_cleanup_queue+0x4a/0x60
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[<ffffffff8145cc09>] scsi_free_queue+0x9/0x10
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[<ffffffff81460944>] __scsi_remove_device+0x84/0xd0
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[<ffffffff8145dca3>] scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x353/0xb10
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[<ffffffff817da069>] ? error_exit+0x29/0xb0
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[<ffffffff817d98ed>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3d/0x80
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[<ffffffff8145e722>] __scsi_scan_target+0x112/0x680
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[<ffffffff812c690d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
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[<ffffffff817da069>] ? error_exit+0x29/0xb0
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[<ffffffff812bcc60>] ? kobject_del+0x40/0x40
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[<ffffffff8145ed16>] scsi_scan_channel+0x86/0xb0
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[<ffffffff8145f0b0>] scsi_scan_host_selected+0x140/0x150
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[<ffffffff8145f149>] do_scsi_scan_host+0x89/0x90
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[<ffffffff8145f170>] do_scan_async+0x20/0x160
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[<ffffffff8145f150>] ? do_scsi_scan_host+0x90/0x90
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[<ffffffff810975b6>] kthread+0xa6/0xb0
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[<ffffffff817db154>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
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[<ffffffff81066430>] ? finish_task_switch+0x80/0x110
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[<ffffffff817d9c04>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
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[<ffffffff81097510>] ? __kthread_init_worker+0x70/0x70
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[<ffffffff817db150>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
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Line 2776 of block/cfq-iosched.c in v3.0-rc5 is as follows:
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if (rcu_dereference(ioc->ioc_data) == cic) {
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This form says that it must be in a plain vanilla RCU read-side critical
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section, but the "other info" list above shows that this is not the
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case. Instead, we hold three locks, one of which might be RCU related.
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And maybe that lock really does protect this reference. If so, the fix
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is to inform RCU, perhaps by changing __cfq_exit_single_io_context() to
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take the struct request_queue "q" from cfq_exit_queue() as an argument,
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which would permit us to invoke rcu_dereference_protected as follows:
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if (rcu_dereference_protected(ioc->ioc_data,
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lockdep_is_held(&q->queue_lock)) == cic) {
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With this change, there would be no lockdep-RCU splat emitted if this
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code was invoked either from within an RCU read-side critical section
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or with the ->queue_lock held. In particular, this would have suppressed
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the above lockdep-RCU splat because ->queue_lock is held (see #2 in the
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list above).
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On the other hand, perhaps we really do need an RCU read-side critical
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section. In this case, the critical section must span the use of the
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return value from rcu_dereference(), or at least until there is some
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reference count incremented or some such. One way to handle this is to
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add rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() as follows:
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rcu_read_lock();
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if (rcu_dereference(ioc->ioc_data) == cic) {
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spin_lock(&ioc->lock);
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rcu_assign_pointer(ioc->ioc_data, NULL);
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spin_unlock(&ioc->lock);
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}
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rcu_read_unlock();
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With this change, the rcu_dereference() is always within an RCU
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read-side critical section, which again would have suppressed the
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above lockdep-RCU splat.
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But in this particular case, we don't actually deference the pointer
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returned from rcu_dereference(). Instead, that pointer is just compared
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to the cic pointer, which means that the rcu_dereference() can be replaced
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by rcu_access_pointer() as follows:
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if (rcu_access_pointer(ioc->ioc_data) == cic) {
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Because it is legal to invoke rcu_access_pointer() without protection,
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this change would also suppress the above lockdep-RCU splat.
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