From 4d82a1debbffec129cc387aafa8f40b7bbab3297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 08:06:19 -0700 Subject: lockdep: fix oops in processing workqueue Under memory load, on x86_64, with lockdep enabled, the workqueue's process_one_work() has been seen to oops in __lock_acquire(), barfing on a 0xffffffff00000000 pointer in the lockdep_map's class_cache[]. Because it's permissible to free a work_struct from its callout function, the map used is an onstack copy of the map given in the work_struct: and that copy is made without any locking. Surprisingly, gcc (4.5.1 in Hugh's case) uses "rep movsl" rather than "rep movsq" for that structure copy: which might race with a workqueue user's wait_on_work() doing lock_map_acquire() on the source of the copy, putting a pointer into the class_cache[], but only in time for the top half of that pointer to be copied to the destination map. Boom when process_one_work() subsequently does lock_map_acquire() on its onstack copy of the lockdep_map. Fix this, and a similar instance in call_timer_fn(), with a lockdep_copy_map() function which additionally NULLs the class_cache[]. Note: this oops was actually seen on 3.4-next, where flush_work() newly does the racing lock_map_acquire(); but Tejun points out that 3.4 and earlier are already vulnerable to the same through wait_on_work(). * Patch orginally from Peter. Hugh modified it a bit and wrote the description. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Reported-by: Hugh Dickins LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- kernel/timer.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/timer.c') diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index a297ffc..b123852 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -1102,7 +1102,9 @@ static void call_timer_fn(struct timer_list *timer, void (*fn)(unsigned long), * warnings as well as problems when looking into * timer->lockdep_map, make a copy and use that here. */ - struct lockdep_map lockdep_map = timer->lockdep_map; + struct lockdep_map lockdep_map; + + lockdep_copy_map(&lockdep_map, &timer->lockdep_map); #endif /* * Couple the lock chain with the lock chain at -- cgit v1.1