Re: rcu warnings cause stack overflow

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 09:18:56AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 04:14:48PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:06:52AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > Hi Frederic,
> > > 
> > > your patch 00f49e5729 "rcu: Warn when rcu_read_lock() is used in extended
> > > quiescent state" adds a WARN_ON_ONCE to rcu_lock_acquire().
> > > Actually this found a bug on s390 (thanks!) but it probably didn't work
> > > as expected.
> > > On architectures which implement WARN_ON_ONCE with an exception this
> > > additional warning will lead to a stack overflow (if it triggers):
> > > 
> > > [   55.746956] Kernel stack overflow.
> > > [   55.746966] Modules linked in: qeth_l3 binfmt_misc dm_multipath scsi_dh dm_mod qeth vmur ccwgroup [last unloaded: scsi_wait_
> > > scan]
> > > [   55.746999] CPU: 0 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc1-00167-gf8275f9 #90
> > > [   55.747005] Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, task: 0000000000911100, ksp: 0000000000907d50)
> > > [   55.747013] Krnl PSW : 0404000180000000 00000000005d5728 (illegal_op+0x1c/0x134)
> > > [   55.747034]            R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:0 PM:0 EA:3
> > > [   55.747043] Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 00000000005d570c 00000000009040e8 0000000000000002
> > > [   55.747054]            00000000005d83dc ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 0400000000907cc8
> > > [   55.747064]            0404100180000000 00000000005d8478 0000000000000008 00000000009040e8
> > > [   55.747074]            0000000000904000 00000000005dc550 0000000000904048 0000000000904048
> > > [   55.747096] Krnl Code: 00000000005d571c: b90400ef            lgr     %r14,%r15
> > > [   55.747118]            00000000005d5720: b90400b2            lgr     %r11,%r2
> > > [   55.747194]           #00000000005d5724: a7840001            brc     8,5d5726
> > > [   55.747205]           >00000000005d5728: a7fbff18            aghi    %r15,-232
> > > [   55.747216]            00000000005d572c: e3e0f0980024        stg     %r14,152(%r15)
> > > [   55.747228]            00000000005d5732: e31020100004        lg      %r1,16(%r2)
> > > [   55.747242]            00000000005d5738: 58c020a0            l       %r12,160(%r2)
> > > [   55.747257]            00000000005d573c: 91012009            tm      9(%r2),1
> > > [   55.747276] Call Trace:
> > > [   55.747282] ([<00000000005d60b4>] pgm_check_handler+0x154/0x158)
> > > [   55.747296]  [<00000000005d8478>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd8/0xfc
> > > [   55.747309] ([<00000000005d83dc>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x3c/0xfc)
> > > [   55.747322]  [<00000000005d84c6>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x2a/0x3c
> > > [   55.747335]  [<00000000005d852a>] notify_die+0x52/0x60
> > > [   55.747349]  [<00000000005d57da>] illegal_op+0xce/0x134
> > > [   55.747364]  [<00000000005d60b4>] pgm_check_handler+0x154/0x158
> > > 
> > > [...lots more of the same...] 
> > > 
> > > [   55.747379]  [<00000000005d8478>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd8/0xfc
> > > [   55.747425] ([<00000000005d83dc>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x3c/0xfc)
> > > [   55.747432]  [<00000000005d84c6>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x2a/0x3c
> > > [   55.747440]  [<00000000005d852a>] notify_die+0x52/0x60
> > > [   55.747448]  [<00000000005d57da>] illegal_op+0xce/0x134
> > > [   55.747457]  [<00000000005d60b4>] pgm_check_handler+0x154/0x158
> > > [   55.747797]  [<00000000005d8478>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd8/0xfc
> > > [   55.747806] ([<00000000005d83dc>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x3c/0xfc)
> > > [   55.747816]  [<00000000005d84c6>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x2a/0x3c
> > > [   55.747826]  [<00000000005d852a>] notify_die+0x52/0x60
> > > [   55.748456]  [<00000000005d57da>] illegal_op+0xce/0x134
> > > [   55.748463]  [<00000000005d60b4>] pgm_check_handler+0x154/0x158
> > > [   55.748472]  [<000000000017afa0>] select_task_rq_fair+0x1478/0x14b4
> > > [   55.748483] ([<0000000000179bb8>] select_task_rq_fair+0x90/0x14b4)
> > > [   55.748493]  [<0000000000170702>] try_to_wake_up+0x136/0x47c
> > > [   55.748506]  [<000000000015b446>] autoremove_wake_function+0x26/0x58
> > > [   55.748518]  [<000000000016693a>] __wake_up_common+0x76/0xb4
> > > [   55.748530]  [<000000000016aed0>] __wake_up+0x4c/0x60
> > > [   55.748541]  [<0000000000109ee0>] s390_handle_mcck+0x194/0x1f8
> > > [   55.748557]  [<000000000010486a>] cpu_idle+0x192/0x1c0
> > > [   55.748570]  [<0000000000977916>] start_kernel+0x402/0x410
> > > [   55.748588]  [<0000000000100020>] _stext+0x20/0x80
> > > [   55.748603] 2 locks held by swapper/0/0:
> > > [   55.748612]  #0:  (crw_handler_wait_q.lock){......}, at: [<000000000016aeb6>] __wake_up+0x32/0x60
> > > [   55.748648]  #1:  (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [<000000000017060c>] try_to_wake_up+0x40/0x47c
> > > [   55.748663] Last Breaking-Event-Address:
> > > [   55.748667]  [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
> > > 
> > > This simply happens because WARN_ON_ONCE causes an exception, the excpetion
> > > handler wants to call a notifier call chain (notify_die), which again uses
> > > rcu_read_lock(), which again causes an exception and so on...
> > > Unfortunately WARN_ON_ONCE first causes an exception and only afterwards sets
> > > the flag that the warning already happened. Seems to be quite some effort to
> > > change this behaviour.
> > > 
> > > Removing the WARN_ON_ONCE will fix this and, if lockdep is turned on, still
> > > will find illegal uses. But it won't work for lockdep off configs...
> > > So we probably want something better than the patch below.
> > 
> > Ah ok. Hmm, but why are you using an exception to implement WARN_ON()
> > in s390? Is it to have a whole new stack for the warning path in order
> > to avoid stack overflow from the place that called the WARN_ON() ?
> > 
> > Anyway perhaps we need a recursion protection on WARN_ON_ONCE(), such
> > as:
> 
> This makes sense to me, but I am also taking Heiko's patch
> removing the WARN_ON()s in favor of the lockdep checks now in
> rcu_read_lock_held().  After all, the rcu_lock_acquire() WARN_ON_ONCE()
> only appears if PROVE_LOCKING=y, so the added requirement is not a
> big deal.  Also, CONFIG_PROVE_RCU is in the testing requirements in
> Documentation/SubmitChecklist.
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul

I think if we do this, we lose the debugging coverage on places that
make use of rcu_read_lock{_sched,_bh}() without using rcu_dereference{_sched,_bh}().

It seems walking the task list with list_for_each_entry_rcu() under rcu_read_lock() is
one such example because rcu lists are using rcu_dereference_raw().

Also I realize a problem with my below patch. The exception will call rcu_read_lock()
from another callsite so we are still going to recurse. Only of one level but we will
recurse. This could mess up the warning output, although it prevents from the
stack overflow. If we still go that direction, we probably need a more global, or per
cpu, recursion protection of these RCU warnings.

> 
> > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bug.h b/include/asm-generic/bug.h
> > index 84458b0..f76635f 100644
> > --- a/include/asm-generic/bug.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-generic/bug.h
> > @@ -137,9 +137,13 @@ extern void warn_slowpath_null(const char *file, const int line);
> >  	static bool __warned;					\
> >  	int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition);			\
> >  								\
> > -	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once))				\
> > -		if (WARN_ON(!__warned)) 			\
> > +	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once)) {			\
> > +		if (!__warned) {				\
> >  			__warned = true;			\
> > +			barrier();				\
> > +			WARN_ON(1);				\
> > +		}						\
> > +	}							\
> >  	unlikely(__ret_warn_once);				\
> >  })
> > 
> > 
> 
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