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authorJosh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>2015-09-03 09:56:49 -0400
committerJosh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>2015-09-03 09:56:49 -0400
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diff --git a/security-device_cgroup-fix-RCU-lockdep-splat.patch b/security-device_cgroup-fix-RCU-lockdep-splat.patch
index 2de959ee9..0ecacdfe4 100644
--- a/security-device_cgroup-fix-RCU-lockdep-splat.patch
+++ b/security-device_cgroup-fix-RCU-lockdep-splat.patch
@@ -1,71 +1,71 @@
-From 28e1b4326abcc66839c6e21dd410fe983ee83fb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 08:12:28 -0500
+From 85f4e5ec7bbb5f8d7cc023a12af39d76c05cd204 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 17:14:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] security: device_cgroup: fix RCU lockdep splat
-while booting AM437x device, the following splat
-triggered:
+On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 12:24:50PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
+> cc'ing Paul.
+>
+> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 08:12:28AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
+> > while booting AM437x device, the following splat
+> > triggered:
+> >
+> > [ 12.005238] ===============================
+> > [ 12.009749] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
+> > [ 12.014116] 4.2.0-next-20150831 #1154 Not tainted
+> > [ 12.019050] -------------------------------
+> > [ 12.023408] security/device_cgroup.c:405 device_cgroup:verify_new_ex called without proper synchronization!
+> ...
+> > [ 12.128326] [<c0317a04>] (verify_new_ex) from [<c0317f50>] (devcgroup_access_write+0x374/0x658)
+> > [ 12.137426] [<c0317f50>] (devcgroup_access_write) from [<c00d2800>] (cgroup_file_write+0x28/0x1bc)
+> > [ 12.146796] [<c00d2800>] (cgroup_file_write) from [<c01f1670>] (kernfs_fop_write+0xc0/0x1b8)
+> > [ 12.155620] [<c01f1670>] (kernfs_fop_write) from [<c0177c94>] (__vfs_write+0x1c/0xd8)
+> > [ 12.163783] [<c0177c94>] (__vfs_write) from [<c0178594>] (vfs_write+0x90/0x16c)
+> > [ 12.171426] [<c0178594>] (vfs_write) from [<c0178db4>] (SyS_write+0x44/0x9c)
+> > [ 12.178806] [<c0178db4>] (SyS_write) from [<c000f680>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c)
+>
+> This shouldn't be happening because devcgroup_access_write() always
+> grabs devcgroup_mutex. Looking at the log, the culprit seems to be
+> f78f5b90c4ff ("rcu: Rename rcu_lockdep_assert() to
+> RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN()"). It missed the bang for the second test while
+> inverting it, so adding rcu_read_lock() isn't the right fix here.
+>
+> Paul, can you please fix it?
-[ 12.005238] ===============================
-[ 12.009749] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
-[ 12.014116] 4.2.0-next-20150831 #1154 Not tainted
-[ 12.019050] -------------------------------
-[ 12.023408] security/device_cgroup.c:405 device_cgroup:verify_new_ex called without proper synchronization!
-[ 12.033576] other info that might help us debug this:
+Gah! Please see below.
-[ 12.041942] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
-[ 12.048796] 4 locks held by systemd/1:
-[ 12.052700] #0: (sb_writers#7){.+.+.+}, at: [<c017af84>] __sb_start_write+0x8c/0xb0
-[ 12.060954] #1: (&of->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c01f1600>] kernfs_fop_write+0x50/0x1b8
-[ 12.069085] #2: (s_active#30){++++.+}, at: [<c01f1608>] kernfs_fop_write+0x58/0x1b8
-[ 12.077310] #3: (devcgroup_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<c0317bfc>] devcgroup_access_write+0x20/0x658
-[ 12.086575] stack backtrace:
-[ 12.091124] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.2.0-next-20150831 #1154
-[ 12.098609] Hardware name: Generic AM43 (Flattened Device Tree)
-[ 12.104807] [<c001770c>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0013a58>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
-[ 12.112924] [<c0013a58>] (show_stack) from [<c034f014>] (dump_stack+0x84/0x9c)
-[ 12.120491] [<c034f014>] (dump_stack) from [<c0317a04>] (verify_new_ex+0xc4/0xdc)
-[ 12.128326] [<c0317a04>] (verify_new_ex) from [<c0317f50>] (devcgroup_access_write+0x374/0x658)
-[ 12.137426] [<c0317f50>] (devcgroup_access_write) from [<c00d2800>] (cgroup_file_write+0x28/0x1bc)
-[ 12.146796] [<c00d2800>] (cgroup_file_write) from [<c01f1670>] (kernfs_fop_write+0xc0/0x1b8)
-[ 12.155620] [<c01f1670>] (kernfs_fop_write) from [<c0177c94>] (__vfs_write+0x1c/0xd8)
-[ 12.163783] [<c0177c94>] (__vfs_write) from [<c0178594>] (vfs_write+0x90/0x16c)
-[ 12.171426] [<c0178594>] (vfs_write) from [<c0178db4>] (SyS_write+0x44/0x9c)
-[ 12.178806] [<c0178db4>] (SyS_write) from [<c000f680>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c)
+ Thanx, Paul
-Fix it by making sure rcu_read_lock() is held
-around calls to parent_has_perm().
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
+security/device_cgroup: Fix RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() condition
+
+f78f5b90c4ff ("rcu: Rename rcu_lockdep_assert() to RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN()")
+introduced a bug by incorrectly inverting the condition when moving from
+rcu_lockdep_assert() to RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(). This commit therefore fixes
+the inversion.
+
+Reported-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
+Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
+Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
---
- security/device_cgroup.c | 7 ++++++-
- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+ security/device_cgroup.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c
-index 73455089feef..dd77ed206fa4 100644
+index 73455089feef..03c1652c9a1f 100644
--- a/security/device_cgroup.c
+++ b/security/device_cgroup.c
-@@ -608,6 +608,7 @@ static int devcgroup_update_access(struct dev_cgroup *devcgroup,
- int count, rc = 0;
- struct dev_exception_item ex;
- struct dev_cgroup *parent = css_to_devcgroup(devcgroup->css.parent);
-+ int ret;
+@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ static bool verify_new_ex(struct dev_cgroup *dev_cgroup,
+ bool match = false;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
-@@ -734,7 +735,11 @@ static int devcgroup_update_access(struct dev_cgroup *devcgroup,
- break;
- }
+ RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_read_lock_held() &&
+- lockdep_is_held(&devcgroup_mutex),
++ !lockdep_is_held(&devcgroup_mutex),
+ "device_cgroup:verify_new_ex called without proper synchronization");
-- if (!parent_has_perm(devcgroup, &ex))
-+ rcu_read_lock();
-+ ret = parent_has_perm(devcgroup, &ex);
-+ rcu_read_unlock();
-+
-+ if (!ret)
- return -EPERM;
- rc = dev_exception_add(devcgroup, &ex);
- break;
+ if (dev_cgroup->behavior == DEVCG_DEFAULT_ALLOW) {
--
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