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Commit f1c6ece2 authored by Andrea Righi's avatar Andrea Righi Committed by Ingo Molnar
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kprobes: Fix potential deadlock in kprobe_optimizer()

lockdep reports the following deadlock scenario:

 WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected

 kworker/1:1/48 is trying to acquire lock:
 000000008d7a62b2 (text_mutex){+.+.}, at: kprobe_optimizer+0x163/0x290

 but task is already holding lock:
 00000000850b5e2d (module_mutex){+.+.}, at: kprobe_optimizer+0x31/0x290

 which lock already depends on the new lock.

 the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

 -> #1 (module_mutex){+.+.}:
        __mutex_lock+0xac/0x9f0
        mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20
        set_all_modules_text_rw+0x22/0x90
        ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare+0x1c/0x20
        ftrace_run_update_code+0xe/0x30
        ftrace_startup_enable+0x2e/0x50
        ftrace_startup+0xa7/0x100
        register_ftrace_function+0x27/0x70
        arm_kprobe+0xb3/0x130
        enable_kprobe+0x83/0xa0
        enable_trace_kprobe.part.0+0x2e/0x80
        kprobe_register+0x6f/0xc0
        perf_trace_event_init+0x16b/0x270
        perf_kprobe_init+0xa7/0xe0
        perf_kprobe_event_init+0x3e/0x70
        perf_try_init_event+0x4a/0x140
        perf_event_alloc+0x93a/0xde0
        __do_sys_perf_event_open+0x19f/0xf30
        __x64_sys_perf_event_open+0x20/0x30
        do_syscall_64+0x65/0x1d0
        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

 -> #0 (text_mutex){+.+.}:
        __lock_acquire+0xfcb/0x1b60
        lock_acquire+0xca/0x1d0
        __mutex_lock+0xac/0x9f0
        mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20
        kprobe_optimizer+0x163/0x290
        process_one_work+0x22b/0x560
        worker_thread+0x50/0x3c0
        kthread+0x112/0x150
        ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50

 other info that might help us debug this:

  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
   lock(module_mutex);
                                lock(text_mutex);
                                lock(module_mutex);
   lock(text_mutex);

  *** DEADLOCK ***

As a reproducer I've been using bcc's funccount.py
(https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/funccount.py

),
for example:

 # ./funccount.py '*interrupt*'

That immediately triggers the lockdep splat.

Fix by acquiring text_mutex before module_mutex in kprobe_optimizer().

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: d5b844a2 ("ftrace/x86: Remove possible deadlock between register_kprobe() and ftrace_run_update_code()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190812184302.GA7010@xps-13


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 77d76032
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