pstore: change mutex locking to spin_locks

pstore was using mutex locking to protect read/write access to the
backend plug-ins.  This causes problems when pstore is executed in
an NMI context through panic() -> kmsg_dump().

This patch changes the mutex to a spin_lock_irqsave then also checks to
see if we are in an NMI context.  If we are in an NMI and can't get the
lock, just print a message stating that and blow by the locking.

All this is probably a hack around the bigger locking problem but it
solves my current situation of trying to sleep in an NMI context.

Tested by loading the lkdtm module and executing a HARDLOCKUP which
will cause the machine to panic inside the nmi handler.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Don Zickus 2011-08-12 10:54:51 -07:00 committed by Tony Luck
parent 6dda926691
commit abd4d5587b
4 changed files with 24 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ static int __init erst_init(void)
goto err_release_erange;
buf = kmalloc(erst_erange.size, GFP_KERNEL);
mutex_init(&erst_info.buf_mutex);
spin_lock_init(&erst_info.buf_lock);
if (buf) {
erst_info.buf = buf + sizeof(struct cper_pstore_record);
erst_info.bufsize = erst_erange.size -

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@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ int register_efivars(struct efivars *efivars,
if (efivars->efi_pstore_info.buf) {
efivars->efi_pstore_info.bufsize = 1024;
efivars->efi_pstore_info.data = efivars;
mutex_init(&efivars->efi_pstore_info.buf_mutex);
spin_lock_init(&efivars->efi_pstore_info.buf_lock);
pstore_register(&efivars->efi_pstore_info);
}

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@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/timer.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include "internal.h"
@ -88,13 +89,20 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
u64 id;
int hsize;
unsigned int part = 1;
unsigned long flags = 0;
int is_locked = 0;
if (reason < ARRAY_SIZE(reason_str))
why = reason_str[reason];
else
why = "Unknown";
mutex_lock(&psinfo->buf_mutex);
if (in_nmi()) {
is_locked = spin_trylock(&psinfo->buf_lock);
if (!is_locked)
pr_err("pstore dump routine blocked in NMI, may corrupt error record\n");
} else
spin_lock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
oopscount++;
while (total < kmsg_bytes) {
dst = psinfo->buf;
@ -123,7 +131,11 @@ static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
total += l1_cpy + l2_cpy;
part++;
}
mutex_unlock(&psinfo->buf_mutex);
if (in_nmi()) {
if (is_locked)
spin_unlock(&psinfo->buf_lock);
} else
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
}
static struct kmsg_dumper pstore_dumper = {
@ -188,11 +200,12 @@ void pstore_get_records(int quiet)
enum pstore_type_id type;
struct timespec time;
int failed = 0, rc;
unsigned long flags;
if (!psi)
return;
mutex_lock(&psinfo->buf_mutex);
spin_lock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
rc = psi->open(psi);
if (rc)
goto out;
@ -205,7 +218,7 @@ void pstore_get_records(int quiet)
}
psi->close(psi);
out:
mutex_unlock(&psinfo->buf_mutex);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
if (failed)
printk(KERN_WARNING "pstore: failed to load %d record(s) from '%s'\n",
@ -233,7 +246,8 @@ static void pstore_timefunc(unsigned long dummy)
*/
int pstore_write(enum pstore_type_id type, char *buf, size_t size)
{
u64 id;
u64 id;
unsigned long flags;
if (!psinfo)
return -ENODEV;
@ -241,13 +255,13 @@ int pstore_write(enum pstore_type_id type, char *buf, size_t size)
if (size > psinfo->bufsize)
return -EFBIG;
mutex_lock(&psinfo->buf_mutex);
spin_lock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
memcpy(psinfo->buf, buf, size);
id = psinfo->write(type, 0, size, psinfo);
if (pstore_is_mounted())
pstore_mkfile(PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG, psinfo->name, id, psinfo->buf,
size, CURRENT_TIME, psinfo);
mutex_unlock(&psinfo->buf_mutex);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
return 0;
}

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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ enum pstore_type_id {
struct pstore_info {
struct module *owner;
char *name;
struct mutex buf_mutex; /* serialize access to 'buf' */
spinlock_t buf_lock; /* serialize access to 'buf' */
char *buf;
size_t bufsize;
int (*open)(struct pstore_info *psi);