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Waiman Long 3573215579 mm/slab_common: Deleting kobject in kmem_cache_destroy() without holding slab_mutex/cpu_hotplug_lock 
[ Upstream commit 0495e337b7 ]

A circular locking problem is reported by lockdep due to the following
circular locking dependency.

  +--> cpu_hotplug_lock --> slab_mutex --> kn->active --+
  |                                                     |
  +-----------------------------------------------------+

The forward cpu_hotplug_lock ==> slab_mutex ==> kn->active dependency
happens in

  kmem_cache_destroy():	cpus_read_lock(); mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
  ==> sysfs_slab_unlink()
      ==> kobject_del()
          ==> kernfs_remove()
	      ==> __kernfs_remove()
	          ==> kernfs_drain(): rwsem_acquire(&kn->dep_map, ...);

The backward kn->active ==> cpu_hotplug_lock dependency happens in

  kernfs_fop_write_iter(): kernfs_get_active();
  ==> slab_attr_store()
      ==> cpu_partial_store()
          ==> flush_all(): cpus_read_lock()

One way to break this circular locking chain is to avoid holding
cpu_hotplug_lock and slab_mutex while deleting the kobject in
sysfs_slab_unlink() which should be equivalent to doing a write_lock
and write_unlock pair of the kn->active virtual lock.

Since the kobject structures are not protected by slab_mutex or the
cpu_hotplug_lock, we can certainly release those locks before doing
the delete operation.

Move sysfs_slab_unlink() and sysfs_slab_release() to the newly
created kmem_cache_release() and call it outside the slab_mutex &
cpu_hotplug_lock critical sections. There will be a slight delay
in the deletion of sysfs files if kmem_cache_release() is called
indirectly from a work function.

Fixes: 5a836bf6b0 ("mm: slub: move flush_cpu_slab() invocations __free_slab() invocations out of IRQ context")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YwOImVd+nRUsSAga@hyeyoo/
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2022-09-08 11:24:00 +02:00
arch arm64: cacheinfo: Fix incorrect assignment of signed error value to unsigned fw_level 2022-09-05 10:31:36 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix io hung due to missing commit_rqs 2022-08-31 17:18:19 +02:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on x509 parser 2022-07-24 12:53:55 -07:00
crypto KEYS: asymmetric: enforce SM2 signature use pkey algo 2022-08-17 15:16:17 +02:00
Documentation rtla: Fix tracer name 2022-09-05 10:31:31 +02:00
drivers soundwire: qcom: fix device status array range 2022-09-08 11:24:00 +02:00
fs cachefiles: make on-demand request distribution fairer 2022-09-08 11:24:00 +02:00
include bpf: Allow helpers to accept pointers with a fixed size 2022-09-08 11:23:58 +02:00
init arm64: fix rodata=full 2022-08-31 17:18:19 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: fix issue with io_write() not always undoing sb_start_write() 2022-08-31 17:18:17 +02:00
ipc ipc: Free mq_sysctls if ipc namespace creation failed 2022-06-22 17:47:41 -05:00
kernel bpf: Do mark_chain_precision for ARG_CONST_ALLOC_SIZE_OR_ZERO 2022-09-08 11:23:58 +02:00
lib crypto: lib - remove unneeded selection of XOR_BLOCKS 2022-09-05 10:31:26 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/slab_common: Deleting kobject in kmem_cache_destroy() without holding slab_mutex/cpu_hotplug_lock 2022-09-08 11:24:00 +02:00
net net/smc: Remove redundant refcount increase 2022-09-08 11:24:00 +02:00
samples sample: bpf: xdp_router_ipv4: Allow the kernel to send arp requests 2022-08-17 15:14:25 +02:00
scripts kbuild: dummy-tools: avoid tmpdir leak in dummy gcc 2022-08-29 11:07:58 +02:00
security apparmor: Fix memleak in aa_simple_write_to_buffer() 2022-08-25 11:45:11 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda: intel-nhlt: Correct the handling of fmt_config flexible array 2022-09-08 11:23:58 +02:00
tools testing: selftests: nft_flowtable.sh: use random netns names 2022-09-05 10:31:35 +02:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Unconditionally get a ref to /dev/kvm module when creating a VM 2022-08-25 11:45:05 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Fix space after for_each macros 2022-05-20 19:27:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes for 5.19, part 4 2022-07-27 09:43:07 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: mark ARM/PALM TREO SUPPORT orphan 2022-07-07 15:17:00 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS io_uring: move to separate directory 2022-08-17 15:14:20 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.19.7 2022-09-05 10:31:36 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.