Currently, when mounting pstore file system, a read callback of
efi_pstore driver runs mutiple times as below.
- In the first read callback, scan efivar_sysfs_list from head and pass
a kmsg buffer of a entry to an upper pstore layer.
- In the second read callback, rescan efivar_sysfs_list from the entry
and pass another kmsg buffer to it.
- Repeat the scan and pass until the end of efivar_sysfs_list.
In this process, an entry is read across the multiple read function
calls. To avoid race between the read and erasion, the whole process
above is protected by a spinlock, holding in open() and releasing in
close().
At the same time, kmemdup() is called to pass the buffer to pstore
filesystem during it. And then, it causes a following lockdep warning.
To make the dynamic memory allocation runnable without taking spinlock,
holding off a deletion of sysfs entry if it happens while scanning it
via efi_pstore, and deleting it after the scan is completed.
To implement it, this patch introduces two flags, scanning and deleting,
to efivar_entry.
On the code basis, it seems that all the scanning and deleting logic is
not needed because __efivars->lock are not dropped when reading from the
EFI variable store.
But, the scanning and deleting logic is still needed because an
efi-pstore and a pstore filesystem works as follows.
In case an entry(A) is found, the pointer is saved to psi->data. And
efi_pstore_read() passes the entry(A) to a pstore filesystem by
releasing __efivars->lock.
And then, the pstore filesystem calls efi_pstore_read() again and the
same entry(A), which is saved to psi->data, is used for resuming to scan
a sysfs-list.
So, to protect the entry(A), the logic is needed.
[ 1.143710] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 1.144058] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at kernel/lockdep.c:2740 lockdep_trace_alloc+0x104/0x110()
[ 1.144058] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(irqs_disabled_flags(flags))
[ 1.144058] Modules linked in:
[ 1.144058] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 3.11.0-rc5 #2
[ 1.144058] 0000000000000009 ffff8800797e9ae0 ffffffff816614a5 ffff8800797e9b28
[ 1.144058] ffff8800797e9b18 ffffffff8105510d 0000000000000080 0000000000000046
[ 1.144058] 00000000000000d0 00000000000003af ffffffff81ccd0c0 ffff8800797e9b78
[ 1.144058] Call Trace:
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff816614a5>] dump_stack+0x54/0x74
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff8105510d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff8105517c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff8131290f>] ? vsscanf+0x57f/0x7b0
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff810bbd74>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0x104/0x110
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff81192da0>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x50/0x280
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff815147bb>] ? efi_pstore_read_func.part.1+0x12b/0x170
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff8115b260>] kmemdup+0x20/0x50
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff815147bb>] efi_pstore_read_func.part.1+0x12b/0x170
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff81514800>] ? efi_pstore_read_func.part.1+0x170/0x170
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff815148b4>] efi_pstore_read_func+0xb4/0xe0
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff81512b7b>] __efivar_entry_iter+0xfb/0x120
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff8151428f>] efi_pstore_read+0x3f/0x50
[ 1.144058] [<ffffffff8128d7ba>] pstore_get_records+0x9a/0x150
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff812af25c>] ? selinux_d_instantiate+0x1c/0x20
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff8128ce30>] ? parse_options+0x80/0x80
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff8128ced5>] pstore_fill_super+0xa5/0xc0
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff811ae7d2>] mount_single+0xa2/0xd0
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff8128ccf8>] pstore_mount+0x18/0x20
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff811ae8b9>] mount_fs+0x39/0x1b0
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff81160550>] ? __alloc_percpu+0x10/0x20
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff811c9493>] vfs_kern_mount+0x63/0xf0
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff811cbb0e>] do_mount+0x23e/0xa20
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff8115b51b>] ? strndup_user+0x4b/0xf0
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff811cc373>] SyS_mount+0x83/0xc0
[ 1.158207] [<ffffffff81673cc2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 1.158207] ---[ end trace 61981bc62de9f6f4 ]---
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Tested-by: Madper Xie <cxie@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
The intent is that if we aren't allowed to block because we're in an
NMI or an emergency then we only take the lock if it is uncontended.
Part of the problem is the test is reversed so we return -EBUSY if we
acquire the lock.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Seiji reported getting empty dmesg-* files, because the data was never
actually read in efi_pstore_read_func(), and so the memcpy() was copying
garbage data.
This patch necessitated adding __efivar_entry_get() which is callable
between efivar_entry_iter_{begin,end}(). We can also delete
__efivar_entry_size() because efi_pstore_read_func() was the only
caller.
Reported-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Tested-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
This registers /sys/firmware/efi/{,systab,efivars/} whenever EFI is enabled
and the system is booted with EFI.
This allows
*) userspace to check for the existence of /sys/firmware/efi as a way
to determine whether or it is running on an EFI system.
*) 'mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars' without manually
loading any modules.
[ Also, move the efivar API into vars.c and unconditionally compile it.
This allows us to move efivars.c, which now only contains the sysfs
variable code, into the firmware/efi directory. Note that the efivars.c
filename is kept to maintain backwards compatability with the old
efivars.ko module. With this patch it is now possible for efivarfs
to be built without CONFIG_EFI_VARS - Matt ]
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Chun-Yi Lee <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Seiji Aguchi