[PATCH 3/3] drm/drm_exec: Work around a WW mutex lockdep oddity

Tue Sep 5 14:29:59 UTC 2023

Hi, Christian

On 9/5/23 15:14, Christian König wrote:
> Am 05.09.23 um 10:58 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
>> If *any* object of a certain WW mutex class is locked, lockdep will
>> consider *all* mutexes of that class as locked. Also the lock allocation
>> tracking code will apparently register only the address of the first
>> mutex locked in a sequence.
>> This has the odd consequence that if that first mutex is unlocked and
>> its memory then freed, the lock alloc tracking code will assume that 
>> memory
>> is freed with a held lock in there.
>>
>> For now, work around that for drm_exec by releasing the first grabbed
>> object lock last.
>>
>> Related lock alloc tracking warning:
>> [  322.660067] =========================
>> [  322.660070] WARNING: held lock freed!
>> [  322.660074] 6.5.0-rc7+ #155 Tainted: G     U           N
>> [  322.660078] -------------------------
>> [  322.660081] kunit_try_catch/4981 is freeing memory 
>> ffff888112adc000-ffff888112adc3ff, with a lock still held there!
>> [  322.660089] ffff888112adc1a0 
>> (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: 
>> drm_exec_lock_obj+0x11a/0x600 [drm_exec]
>> [  322.660104] 2 locks held by kunit_try_catch/4981:
>> [  322.660108]  #0: ffffc9000343fe18 
>> (reservation_ww_class_acquire){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: 
>> test_early_put+0x22f/0x490 [drm_exec_test]
>> [  322.660123]  #1: ffff888112adc1a0 
>> (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: 
>> drm_exec_lock_obj+0x11a/0x600 [drm_exec]
>> [  322.660135]
>>                 stack backtrace:
>> [  322.660139] CPU: 7 PID: 4981 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G     
>> U           N 6.5.0-rc7+ #155
>> [  322.660146] Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/PRIME B560M-A 
>> AC, BIOS 0403 01/26/2021
>> [  322.660152] Call Trace:
>> [  322.660155]  <TASK>
>> [  322.660158]  dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x90
>> [  322.660164]  debug_check_no_locks_freed+0x20b/0x2b0
>> [  322.660172]  slab_free_freelist_hook+0xa1/0x160
>> [  322.660179]  ? drm_exec_unlock_all+0x168/0x2a0 [drm_exec]
>> [  322.660186]  __kmem_cache_free+0xb2/0x290
>> [  322.660192]  drm_exec_unlock_all+0x168/0x2a0 [drm_exec]
>> [  322.660200]  drm_exec_fini+0xf/0x1c0 [drm_exec]
>> [  322.660206]  test_early_put+0x289/0x490 [drm_exec_test]
>> [  322.660215]  ? __pfx_test_early_put+0x10/0x10 [drm_exec_test]
>> [  322.660222]  ? __kasan_check_byte+0xf/0x40
>> [  322.660227]  ? __ksize+0x63/0x140
>> [  322.660233]  ? drmm_add_final_kfree+0x3e/0xa0 [drm]
>> [  322.660289]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x30/0x60
>> [  322.660294]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x7d/0x100
>> [  322.660301]  ? __pfx_kunit_try_run_case+0x10/0x10 [kunit]
>> [  322.660310]  ? __pfx_kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x10/0x10 
>> [kunit]
>> [  322.660319]  kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90 [kunit]
>> [  322.660328]  kthread+0x2e7/0x3c0
>> [  322.660334]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
>> [  322.660339]  ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
>> [  322.660345]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
>> [  322.660349]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
>> [  322.660358]  </TASK>
>> [  322.660818]     ok 8 test_early_put
>>
>> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
>> Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at collabora.com>
>> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr at redhat.com>
>> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c |  2 +-
>>   include/drm/drm_exec.h     | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>   2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c
>> index ff69cf0fb42a..5d2809de4517 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c
>> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static void drm_exec_unlock_all(struct drm_exec *exec)
>>       struct drm_gem_object *obj;
>>       unsigned long index;
>>   -    drm_exec_for_each_locked_object(exec, index, obj) {
>> +    drm_exec_for_each_locked_object_reverse(exec, index, obj) {
>
> Well that's a really good catch, just one more additional thought below.
>
>>           dma_resv_unlock(obj->resv);
>>           drm_gem_object_put(obj);
>>       }
>> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_exec.h b/include/drm/drm_exec.h
>> index e0462361adf9..55764cf7c374 100644
>> --- a/include/drm/drm_exec.h
>> +++ b/include/drm/drm_exec.h
>> @@ -51,6 +51,20 @@ struct drm_exec {
>>       struct drm_gem_object *prelocked;
>>   };
>>   +/**
>> + * drm_exec_obj() - Return the object for a give drm_exec index
>> + * @exec: Pointer to the drm_exec context
>> + * @index: The index.
>> + *
>> + * Return: Pointer to the locked object corresponding to @index if
>> + * index is within the number of locked objects. NULL otherwise.
>> + */
>> +static inline struct drm_gem_object *
>> +drm_exec_obj(struct drm_exec *exec, unsigned long index)
>> +{
>> +    return index < exec->num_objects ? exec->objects[index] : NULL;
>> +}
>> +
>>   /**
>>    * drm_exec_for_each_locked_object - iterate over all the locked 
>> objects
>>    * @exec: drm_exec object
>> @@ -59,10 +73,23 @@ struct drm_exec {
>>    *
>>    * Iterate over all the locked GEM objects inside the drm_exec object.
>>    */
>> -#define drm_exec_for_each_locked_object(exec, index, obj)    \
>> -    for (index = 0, obj = (exec)->objects[0];        \
>> -         index < (exec)->num_objects;            \
>> -         ++index, obj = (exec)->objects[index])
>> +#define drm_exec_for_each_locked_object(exec, index, obj)        \
>> +    for ((index) = 0; ((obj) = drm_exec_obj(exec, index)); ++(index))
>
> Mhm, that makes it possible to modify the number of objects while 
> inside the loop, doesn't it?

Sorry, you lost me a bit there. Isn't that possible with the previous 
code as well?

/Thanks,

Thomas

>
> I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not.
>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * drm_exec_for_each_locked_object_reverse - iterate over all the 
>> locked
>> + * objects in reverse locking order
>> + * @exec: drm_exec object
>> + * @index: unsigned long index for the iteration
>> + * @obj: the current GEM object
>> + *
>> + * Iterate over all the locked GEM objects inside the drm_exec 
>> object in
>> + * reverse locking order. Note that @index may go below zero and wrap,
>> + * but that will be caught by drm_exec_object(), returning a NULL 
>> object.
>> + */
>> +#define drm_exec_for_each_locked_object_reverse(exec, index, obj)    \
>> +    for ((index) = (exec)->num_objects - 1;                \
>> +         ((obj) = drm_exec_obj(exec, index)); --(index))
>>     /**
>>    * drm_exec_until_all_locked - loop until all GEM objects are locked
>