tree 7c40a3bd87e880763f3ee512953a173721701e3d
parent acf128d048c76aeaa99646bce3488d73be215f70
author Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> 1454715376 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1454724640 -0800

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 :

    NMI backtrace for cpu 1
    RIP: _raw_spin_lock+0x25/0x30
    ...
    Call Trace:
      <IRQ>
      tcp_v6_rcv+0x243/0x620
      ip6_input_finish+0x11f/0x330
      ip6_input+0x38/0x40
      ip6_rcv_finish+0x3c/0x90
      ipv6_rcv+0x2a9/0x500
      process_backlog+0x461/0xaa0
      net_rx_action+0x147/0x430
      __do_softirq+0x167/0x2d0
      call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
      do_softirq+0x3f/0x80
      irq_exit+0x6e/0xc0
      smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x35/0x40
      call_function_single_interrupt+0x6a/0x70
      <EOI>
      printk+0x4d/0x4f
      printk_address+0x31/0x33
      print_trace_address+0x33/0x3c
      print_context_stack+0x7f/0x119
      dump_trace+0x26b/0x28e
      show_trace_log_lvl+0x4f/0x5c
      show_stack_log_lvl+0x104/0x113
      show_stack+0x42/0x44
      dump_stack+0x46/0x58
      netdev_rx_csum_fault+0x38/0x3c
      __skb_checksum_complete_head+0x6e/0x80
      __skb_checksum_complete+0x11/0x20
      tcp_rcv_established+0x2bd5/0x2fd0
      tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x13c/0x620
      sk_backlog_rcv+0x15/0x30
      release_sock+0xd2/0x150
      tcp_recvmsg+0x1c1/0xfc0
      inet_recvmsg+0x7d/0x90
      sock_recvmsg+0xaf/0xe0
      ___sys_recvmsg+0x111/0x3b0
      SyS_recvmsg+0x5c/0xb0
      system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Fixes: b58d977432c8 ("dump_stack: serialize the output from dump_stack()")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>