Alexei Starovoitov cb5dc5b062 Merge branch 'bpf: safeguard hashtab locking in NMI context'
Song Liu says:

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LOCKDEP NMI warning highlighted potential deadlock of hashtab in NMI
context:

[   74.828971] ================================
[   74.828972] WARNING: inconsistent lock state
[   74.828973] 5.9.0-rc8+ #275 Not tainted
[   74.828974] --------------------------------
[   74.828975] inconsistent {INITIAL USE} -> {IN-NMI} usage.
[   74.828976] taskset/1174 [HC2[2]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] takes:
[...]
[   74.828999]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[   74.828999]
[   74.829000]        CPU0
[   74.829001]        ----
[   74.829001]   lock(&htab->buckets[i].raw_lock);
[   74.829003]   <Interrupt>
[   74.829004]     lock(&htab->buckets[i].raw_lock);

Please refer to patch 1/2 for full trace.

This warning is a false alert, as "INITIAL USE" and "IN-NMI" in the tests
are from different hashtab. On the other hand, in theory, it is possible
to deadlock when a hashtab is access from both non-NMI and NMI context.
Patch 1/2 fixes this false alert by assigning separate lockdep class to
each hashtab. Patch 2/2 introduces map_locked counters, which is similar to
bpf_prog_active counter, to avoid hashtab deadlock in NMI context.
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Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2020-10-30 13:03:36 -07:00
2020-10-15 07:49:48 +02:00
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