printk: fix deadlock when kernel panic
printk_safe_flush_on_panic() caused the following deadlock on our server: CPU0: CPU1: panic rcu_dump_cpu_stacks kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace register_nmi_handler(crash_nmi_callback) printk_safe_flush __printk_safe_flush raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock) // send NMI to other processors apic_send_IPI_allbutself(NMI_VECTOR) // NMI interrupt, dead loop crash_nmi_callback printk_safe_flush_on_panic printk_safe_flush __printk_safe_flush // deadlock raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&read_lock) DEADLOCK: read_lock is taken on CPU1 and will never get released. It happens when panic() stops a CPU by NMI while it has been in the middle of printk_safe_flush(). Handle the lock the same way as logbuf_lock. The printk_safe buffers are flushed only when both locks can be safely taken. It can avoid the deadlock _in this particular case_ at expense of losing contents of printk_safe buffers. Note: It would actually be safe to re-init the locks when all CPUs were stopped by NMI. But it would require passing this information from arch-specific code. It is not worth the complexity. Especially because logbuf_lock and printk_safe buffers have been obsoleted by the lockless ring buffer. Fixes: cf9b1106 ("printk/nmi: flush NMI messages on the system panic") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210210034823.64867-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
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