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Commit 52f737c2 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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timer: Provide wrappers safe for use with LOCKDEP



Under LOCKDEP, the timer lock_class_key (set up in __setup_timer) needs
to be tied to the caller's context, so an inline for timer_setup()
won't work. We do, however, want to keep the inline version around for
argument type checking, though, so this provides macro wrappers in the
LOCKDEP case.

This fixes the case of different timers sharing the same LOCKDEP instance,
and producing a false positive warning:

[  580.840858] ======================================================
[  580.842299] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[  580.843684] 4.14.0-rc4+ #17 Not tainted
[  580.844554] ------------------------------------------------------
[  580.845945] swapper/9/0 is trying to acquire lock:
[  580.847024]  (slock-AF_INET){+.-.}, at: [<ffffffff84ea4c34>] tcp_write_timer+0x24/0xd0
[  580.848834]
               but task is already holding lock:
[  580.850107]  ((timer)#2){+.-.}, at: [<ffffffff846df7c0>] call_timer_fn+0x0/0x300
[  580.851663]
               which lock already depends on the new lock.

[  580.853439]
               the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[  580.855311]
               -> #1 ((timer)#2){+.-.}:
[  580.856538]        __lock_acquire+0x114d/0x11a0
[  580.857506]        lock_acquire+0xb0/0x1d0
[  580.858373]        del_timer_sync+0x3c/0xb0
[  580.859260]        inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop+0x7f/0x1b0
...
               -> #0 (slock-AF_INET){+.-.}:
[  580.884980]        check_prev_add+0x666/0x700
[  580.885790]        __lock_acquire+0x114d/0x11a0
[  580.886575]        lock_acquire+0xb0/0x1d0
[  580.887289]        _raw_spin_lock+0x2c/0x40
[  580.888021]        tcp_write_timer+0x24/0xd0
...
[  580.900055]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[  580.901043]        CPU0                    CPU1
[  580.901797]        ----                    ----
[  580.902540]   lock((timer)#2);
[  580.903046]                                lock(slock-AF_INET);
[  580.904006]                                lock((timer)#2);
[  580.904915]   lock(slock-AF_INET);
[  580.905502]

In this report, del_timer_sync() is from:

	inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop()
		reqsk_queue_unlink()
			del_timer_sync(&req->rsk_timer)

but tcp_write_timer()'s timer is attached to icsk_retransmit_timer. Both
had the same lock_class_key, since they were using timer_setup(). Switching
to a macro allows for a separate context, avoiding the false positive.

Fixes: 686fef92 ("timer: Prepare to change timer callback argument type")
Reported-by: default avatarCraig Gallek <cgallek@google.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171019202838.GA43223@beast
parent 1843594c
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