[PATCH] locking/lockdep: Use sched_clock() for random numbers.

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Tue May 17 2022 - 05:17:01 EST


Since the rewrote of prandom_u32(), in the commit mentioned below, the
function uses sleeping locks which extracing random numbers and filling
the batch.
This breaks lockdep on PREEMPT_RT because lock_pin_lock() disables
interrupts while calling __lock_pin_lock(). This can't be moved earlier
because the main user of the function (rq_pin_lock()) invokes that
function after disabling interrupts in order to acquire the lock.

The cookie does not require random numbers as its goal is to provide a
random value in order to notice unexpected "unlock + lock" sites.

Use sched_clock() to provide random numbers.

Fixes: a0103f4d86f88 ("random32: use real rng for non-deterministic randomness")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

So if the architecture does not provide sched_clock() and does not
enabled GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK then we use jiffies here. Most of them do
one or the other except for alpha, csky, hexagon, ... but I don't worry
here since arm*, power*, x86* do provide it.

kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 81e87280513ea..f06b91ca6482d 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -5432,7 +5432,7 @@ static struct pin_cookie __lock_pin_lock(struct lockdep_map *lock)
* be guessable and still allows some pin nesting in
* our u32 pin_count.
*/
- cookie.val = 1 + (prandom_u32() >> 16);
+ cookie.val = 1 + (sched_clock() & 0xffff);
hlock->pin_count += cookie.val;
return cookie;
}
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2.36.1