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Commit d5d8d3d0 authored by Petr Mladek's avatar Petr Mladek Committed by Linus Torvalds
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kdb: properly synchronize vkdb_printf() calls with other CPUs



kdb_printf_lock does not prevent other CPUs from entering the critical
section because it is ignored when KDB_STATE_PRINTF_LOCK is set.

The problematic situation might look like:

CPU0					CPU1

vkdb_printf()
  if (!KDB_STATE(PRINTF_LOCK))
    KDB_STATE_SET(PRINTF_LOCK);
    spin_lock_irqsave(&kdb_printf_lock, flags);

					vkdb_printf()
					  if (!KDB_STATE(PRINTF_LOCK))

BANG: The PRINTF_LOCK state is set and CPU1 is entering the critical
section without spinning on the lock.

The problem is that the code tries to implement locking using two state
variables that are not handled atomically.  Well, we need a custom
locking because we want to allow reentering the critical section on the
very same CPU.

Let's use solution from Petr Zijlstra that was proposed for a similar
scenario, see
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161018171513.734367391@infradead.org

This patch uses the same trick with cmpxchg().  The only difference is
that we want to handle only recursion from the same context and
therefore we disable interrupts.

In addition, KDB_STATE_PRINTF_LOCK is removed.  In fact, we are not able
to set it a non-racy way.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480412276-16690-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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