Revision a9ce385344f916cd1c36a33905e564f5581beae9 authored by Jens Axboe on 15 September 2023, 19:14:23 UTC, committed by Mike Snitzer on 15 September 2023, 19:39:59 UTC
dm looks up the table for IO based on the request type, with an
assumption that if the request is marked REQ_NOWAIT, it's fine to
attempt to submit that IO while under RCU read lock protection. This
is not OK, as REQ_NOWAIT just means that we should not be sleeping
waiting on other IO, it does not mean that we can't potentially
schedule.

A simple test case demonstrates this quite nicely:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        struct iovec iov;
        int fd;

        fd = open("/dev/dm-0", O_RDONLY | O_DIRECT);
        posix_memalign(&iov.iov_base, 4096, 4096);
        iov.iov_len = 4096;
        preadv2(fd, &iov, 1, 0, RWF_NOWAIT);
        return 0;
}

which will instantly spew:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:306
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 5580, name: dm-nowait
preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
CPU: 7 PID: 5580 Comm: dm-nowait Not tainted 6.6.0-rc1-g39956d2dcd81 #132
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x11d/0x1b0
 __might_resched+0x3c3/0x5e0
 ? preempt_count_sub+0x150/0x150
 mempool_alloc+0x1e2/0x390
 ? mempool_resize+0x7d0/0x7d0
 ? lock_sync+0x190/0x190
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 ? internal_get_user_pages_fast+0x868/0x2d40
 bio_alloc_bioset+0x417/0x8c0
 ? bvec_alloc+0x200/0x200
 ? internal_get_user_pages_fast+0xb8c/0x2d40
 bio_alloc_clone+0x53/0x100
 dm_submit_bio+0x27f/0x1a20
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 ? blk_try_enter_queue+0x1a0/0x4d0
 ? dm_dax_direct_access+0x260/0x260
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xb0
 ? blk_try_enter_queue+0x1cc/0x4d0
 __submit_bio+0x239/0x310
 ? __bio_queue_enter+0x700/0x700
 ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x40/0x60
 ? ktime_get+0x285/0x470
 submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x4d9/0xb80
 ? should_fail_request+0x80/0x80
 ? preempt_count_sub+0x150/0x150
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 ? __bio_add_page+0x143/0x2d0
 ? iov_iter_revert+0x27/0x360
 submit_bio_noacct+0x53e/0x1b30
 submit_bio_wait+0x10a/0x230
 ? submit_bio_wait_endio+0x40/0x40
 __blkdev_direct_IO_simple+0x4f8/0x780
 ? blkdev_bio_end_io+0x4c0/0x4c0
 ? stack_trace_save+0x90/0xc0
 ? __bio_clone+0x3c0/0x3c0
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 ? lock_sync+0x190/0x190
 ? atime_needs_update+0x3bf/0x7e0
 ? timestamp_truncate+0x21b/0x2d0
 ? inode_owner_or_capable+0x240/0x240
 blkdev_direct_IO.part.0+0x84a/0x1810
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xb0
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 ? blkdev_read_iter+0x40d/0x530
 ? reacquire_held_locks+0x4e0/0x4e0
 ? __blkdev_direct_IO_simple+0x780/0x780
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xb0
 ? __mark_inode_dirty+0x297/0xd50
 ? preempt_count_add+0x72/0x140
 blkdev_read_iter+0x2a4/0x530
 do_iter_readv_writev+0x2f2/0x3c0
 ? generic_copy_file_range+0x1d0/0x1d0
 ? fsnotify_perm.part.0+0x25d/0x630
 ? security_file_permission+0xd8/0x100
 do_iter_read+0x31b/0x880
 ? import_iovec+0x10b/0x140
 vfs_readv+0x12d/0x1a0
 ? vfs_iter_read+0xb0/0xb0
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xb0
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xb0
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 do_preadv+0x1b3/0x260
 ? do_readv+0x370/0x370
 __x64_sys_preadv2+0xef/0x150
 do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7f5af41ad806
Code: 41 54 41 89 fc 55 44 89 c5 53 48 89 cb 48 83 ec 18 80 3d e4 dd 0d 00 00 74 7a 45 89 c1 49 89 ca 45 31 c0 b8 47 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 be 00 00 00 48 85 c0 79 4a 48 8b 0d da 55
RSP: 002b:00007ffd3145c7f0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000147
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f5af41ad806
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00007ffd3145c850 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000008
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 00007ffd3145c850 R14: 000055f5f0431dd8 R15: 0000000000000001
 </TASK>

where in fact it is dm itself that attempts to allocate a bio clone with
GFP_NOIO under the rcu read lock, regardless of the request type.

Fix this by getting rid of the special casing for REQ_NOWAIT, and just
use the normal SRCU protected table lookup. Get rid of the bio based
table locking helpers at the same time, as they are now unused.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 563a225c9fd2 ("dm: introduce dm_{get,put}_live_table_bio called from dm_submit_bio")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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rt-mutex.rst
==================================
RT-mutex subsystem with PI support
==================================

RT-mutexes with priority inheritance are used to support PI-futexes,
which enable pthread_mutex_t priority inheritance attributes
(PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT). [See Documentation/locking/pi-futex.rst for more details
about PI-futexes.]

This technology was developed in the -rt tree and streamlined for
pthread_mutex support.

Basic principles:
-----------------

RT-mutexes extend the semantics of simple mutexes by the priority
inheritance protocol.

A low priority owner of a rt-mutex inherits the priority of a higher
priority waiter until the rt-mutex is released. If the temporarily
boosted owner blocks on a rt-mutex itself it propagates the priority
boosting to the owner of the other rt_mutex it gets blocked on. The
priority boosting is immediately removed once the rt_mutex has been
unlocked.

This approach allows us to shorten the block of high-prio tasks on
mutexes which protect shared resources. Priority inheritance is not a
magic bullet for poorly designed applications, but it allows
well-designed applications to use userspace locks in critical parts of
an high priority thread, without losing determinism.

The enqueueing of the waiters into the rtmutex waiter tree is done in
priority order. For same priorities FIFO order is chosen. For each
rtmutex, only the top priority waiter is enqueued into the owner's
priority waiters tree. This tree too queues in priority order. Whenever
the top priority waiter of a task changes (for example it timed out or
got a signal), the priority of the owner task is readjusted. The
priority enqueueing is handled by "pi_waiters".

RT-mutexes are optimized for fastpath operations and have no internal
locking overhead when locking an uncontended mutex or unlocking a mutex
without waiters. The optimized fastpath operations require cmpxchg
support. [If that is not available then the rt-mutex internal spinlock
is used]

The state of the rt-mutex is tracked via the owner field of the rt-mutex
structure:

lock->owner holds the task_struct pointer of the owner. Bit 0 is used to
keep track of the "lock has waiters" state:

 ============ ======= ================================================
 owner        bit0    Notes
 ============ ======= ================================================
 NULL         0       lock is free (fast acquire possible)
 NULL         1       lock is free and has waiters and the top waiter
		      is going to take the lock [1]_
 taskpointer  0       lock is held (fast release possible)
 taskpointer  1       lock is held and has waiters [2]_
 ============ ======= ================================================

The fast atomic compare exchange based acquire and release is only
possible when bit 0 of lock->owner is 0.

.. [1] It also can be a transitional state when grabbing the lock
       with ->wait_lock is held. To prevent any fast path cmpxchg to the lock,
       we need to set the bit0 before looking at the lock, and the owner may
       be NULL in this small time, hence this can be a transitional state.

.. [2] There is a small time when bit 0 is set but there are no
       waiters. This can happen when grabbing the lock in the slow path.
       To prevent a cmpxchg of the owner releasing the lock, we need to
       set this bit before looking at the lock.

BTW, there is still technically a "Pending Owner", it's just not called
that anymore. The pending owner happens to be the top_waiter of a lock
that has no owner and has been woken up to grab the lock.
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