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Commit 565851c9 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams
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device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock



Usage of device_lock() for dax_region attributes is unnecessary and
deadlock prone. It's unnecessary because the order of registration /
un-registration guarantees that drvdata is always valid. It's deadlock
prone because it sets up this situation:

 ndctl           D    0  2170   2082 0x00000000
 Call Trace:
  __schedule+0x31f/0x980
  schedule+0x3d/0x90
  schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x20
  __mutex_lock+0x402/0x980
  ? __mutex_lock+0x158/0x980
  ? align_show+0x2b/0x80 [dax]
  ? kernfs_seq_start+0x2f/0x90
  mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20
  align_show+0x2b/0x80 [dax]
  dev_attr_show+0x20/0x50

 ndctl           D    0  2186   2079 0x00000000
 Call Trace:
  __schedule+0x31f/0x980
  schedule+0x3d/0x90
  __kernfs_remove+0x1f6/0x340
  ? kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x45/0xa0
  ? remove_wait_queue+0x70/0x70
  kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x45/0xa0
  remove_files.isra.1+0x35/0x70
  sysfs_remove_group+0x44/0x90
  sysfs_remove_groups+0x2e/0x50
  dax_region_unregister+0x25/0x40 [dax]
  devm_action_release+0xf/0x20
  release_nodes+0x16d/0x2b0
  devres_release_all+0x3c/0x60
  device_release_driver_internal+0x17d/0x220
  device_release_driver+0x12/0x20
  unbind_store+0x112/0x160

ndctl/2170 is trying to acquire the device_lock() to read an attribute,
and ndctl/2186 is holding the device_lock() while trying to drain all
active attribute readers.

Thanks to Yi Zhang for the reproduction script.

Fixes: d7fe1a67 ("dax: add region 'id', 'size', and 'align' attributes")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarYi Zhang <yizhan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
parent a3e9af95
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