From: Eric Dumazet Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 23:06:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] dump_stack: avoid potential deadlocks Some servers experienced fatal deadlocks because of a combination of bugs, leading to multiple cpus calling dump_stack(). The checksumming bug was fixed in commit 34ae6a1aa054 ("ipv6: update skb->csum when CE mark is propagated"). The second problem is a faulty locking in dump_stack() CPU1 runs in process context and calls dump_stack(), grabs dump_lock. CPU2 receives a TCP packet under softirq, grabs socket spinlock, and call dump_stack() from netdev_rx_csum_fault(). dump_stack() spins on atomic_cmpxchg(&dump_lock, -1, 2), since dump_lock is owned by CPU1 While dumping its stack, CPU1 is interrupted by a softirq, and happens to process a packet for the TCP socket locked by CPU2. CPU1 spins forever in spin_lock() : deadlock Stack trace on CPU1 looked like : [306295.402231] NMI backtrace for cpu 1 [306295.402238] RIP: 0010:[] [] _raw_spin_lock+0x25/0x30 ... [306295.402255] Stack: [306295.402256] ffff88407f023cb0 ffffffffa99cbdc3 ffff88407f023ca0 ffff88012f496bb0 [306295.402266] ffffffffaa4dc1f0 ffff8820d94f0dc0 000000000000000a ffffffffaa4b4280 [306295.402275] ffff88407f023ce0 ffffffffa98a21d0 ffff88407f023cc0 ffff88407f023ca0 [306295.402284] Call Trace: [306295.402286] [306295.402288] [306295.402291] [] tcp_v6_rcv+0x243/0x620 [306295.402304] [] ip6_input_finish+0x11f/0x330 [306295.402309] [] ip6_input+0x38/0x40 [306295.402313] [] ip6_rcv_finish+0x3c/0x90 [306295.402318] [] ipv6_rcv+0x2a9/0x500 [306295.402323] [] process_backlog+0x461/0xaa0 [306295.402332] [] net_rx_action+0x147/0x430 [306295.402337] [] __do_softirq+0x167/0x2d0 [306295.402341] [] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 [306295.402345] [] do_softirq+0x3f/0x80 [306295.402350] [] irq_exit+0x6e/0xc0 [306295.402355] [] smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x35/0x40 [306295.402360] [] call_function_single_interrupt+0x6a/0x70 [306295.402361] [306295.402364] [306295.402376] [] printk+0x4d/0x4f [306295.402390] [] printk_address+0x31/0x33 [306295.402395] [] print_trace_address+0x33/0x3c [306295.402408] [] print_context_stack+0x7f/0x119 [306295.402412] [] dump_trace+0x26b/0x28e [306295.402417] [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x4f/0x5c [306295.402421] [] show_stack_log_lvl+0x104/0x113 [306295.402425] [] show_stack+0x42/0x44 [306295.402429] [] dump_stack+0x46/0x58 [306295.402434] [] netdev_rx_csum_fault+0x38/0x3c [306295.402439] [] __skb_checksum_complete_head+0x6e/0x80 [306295.402444] [] __skb_checksum_complete+0x11/0x20 [306295.402449] [] tcp_rcv_established+0x2bd5/0x2fd0 [306295.402468] [] tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x13c/0x620 [306295.402477] [] sk_backlog_rcv+0x15/0x30 [306295.402482] [] release_sock+0xd2/0x150 [306295.402486] [] tcp_recvmsg+0x1c1/0xfc0 [306295.402491] [] inet_recvmsg+0x7d/0x90 [306295.402495] [] sock_recvmsg+0xaf/0xe0 [306295.402505] [] ___sys_recvmsg+0x111/0x3b0 [306295.402528] [] SyS_recvmsg+0x5c/0xb0 [306295.402532] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Fixes: b58d977432c8 ("dump_stack: serialize the output from dump_stack()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Alex Thorlton --- --- a/lib/dump_stack.c +++ b/lib/dump_stack.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ static atomic_t dump_lock = ATOMIC_INIT( asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void) { + unsigned long flags; int was_locked; int old; int cpu; @@ -33,9 +34,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(voi * Permit this cpu to perform nested stack dumps while serialising * against other CPUs */ - preempt_disable(); - retry: + local_irq_save(flags); cpu = smp_processor_id(); old = atomic_cmpxchg(&dump_lock, -1, cpu); if (old == -1) { @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ retry: } else if (old == cpu) { was_locked = 1; } else { + local_irq_restore(flags); cpu_relax(); goto retry; } @@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ retry: if (!was_locked) atomic_set(&dump_lock, -1); - preempt_enable(); + local_irq_restore(flags); } #else asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)