Revision 90c1cba2b3b3851c151229f61801919b2904d437 authored by Bart Van Assche on 03 April 2019, 23:35:52 UTC, committed by Ingo Molnar on 10 April 2019, 11:45:59 UTC
The following commit:

  a0b0fd53e1e6 ("locking/lockdep: Free lock classes that are no longer in use")

changed the behavior of lockdep_free_key_range() from
unconditionally zapping lock classes into only zapping lock classes if
debug_lock == true. Not zapping lock classes if debug_lock == false leaves
dangling pointers in several lockdep datastructures, e.g. lock_class::name
in the all_lock_classes list.

The shell command "cat /proc/lockdep" causes the kernel to iterate the
all_lock_classes list. Hence the "unable to handle kernel paging request" cash
that Shenghui encountered by running cat /proc/lockdep.

Since the new behavior can cause cat /proc/lockdep to crash, restore the
pre-v5.1 behavior.

This patch avoids that cat /proc/lockdep triggers the following crash
with debug_lock == false:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffbfff40ca448
  RIP: 0010:__asan_load1+0x28/0x50
  Call Trace:
   string+0xac/0x180
   vsnprintf+0x23e/0x820
   seq_vprintf+0x82/0xc0
   seq_printf+0x92/0xb0
   print_name+0x34/0xb0
   l_show+0x184/0x200
   seq_read+0x59e/0x6c0
   proc_reg_read+0x11f/0x170
   __vfs_read+0x4d/0x90
   vfs_read+0xc5/0x1f0
   ksys_read+0xab/0x130
   __x64_sys_read+0x43/0x50
   do_syscall_64+0x71/0x210
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Reported-by: shenghui <shhuiw@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fixes: a0b0fd53e1e6 ("locking/lockdep: Free lock classes that are no longer in use") # v5.1-rc1.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190403233552.124673-1-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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