From patchwork Thu Apr 18 09:16:09 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 237519 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5C62C01E0 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:17:56 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1USkyS-0002kk-7X; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:17:48 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1USkyM-0002cN-H5 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:17:42 +0000 Received: from bl20-140-10.dsl.telepac.pt ([2.81.140.10] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USkyL-0002Au-PU; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:17:41 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 24/72] panic: fix a possible deadlock in panic() Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:16:09 +0100 Message-Id: <1366276617-3553-25-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1366276617-3553-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1366276617-3553-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Cc: Andrew Morton , Vikram Mulukutla , Linus Torvalds , Michael Holzheu X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.5.7.11 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vikram Mulukutla commit 190320c3b6640d4104650f55ff69611e050ea06b upstream. panic_lock is meant to ensure that panic processing takes place only on one cpu; if any of the other cpus encounter a panic, they will spin waiting to be shut down. However, this causes a regression in this scenario: 1. Cpu 0 encounters a panic and acquires the panic_lock and proceeds with the panic processing. 2. There is an interrupt on cpu 0 that also encounters an error condition and invokes panic. 3. This second invocation fails to acquire the panic_lock and enters the infinite while loop in panic_smp_self_stop. Thus all panic processing is stopped, and the cpu is stuck for eternity in the while(1) inside panic_smp_self_stop. To address this, disable local interrupts with local_irq_disable before acquiring the panic_lock. This will prevent interrupt handlers from executing during the panic processing, thus avoiding this particular problem. Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd Cc: Michael Holzheu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- kernel/panic.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index d2a5f4e..e1b2822 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...) int state = 0; /* + * Disable local interrupts. This will prevent panic_smp_self_stop + * from deadlocking the first cpu that invokes the panic, since + * there is nothing to prevent an interrupt handler (that runs + * after the panic_lock is acquired) from invoking panic again. + */ + local_irq_disable(); + + /* * It's possible to come here directly from a panic-assertion and * not have preempt disabled. Some functions called from here want * preempt to be disabled. No point enabling it later though...