[Intel-gfx] Patch "drm/i915: Fix ref->mutex deadlock in i915_active_wait()" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree

gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Apr 10 11:46:53 UTC 2020


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drm/i915: Fix ref->mutex deadlock in i915_active_wait()

to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     drm-i915-fix-ref-mutex-deadlock-in-i915_active_wait.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From sultan at kerneltoast.com  Fri Apr 10 11:07:34 2020
From: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan at kerneltoast.com>
Date: Tue,  7 Apr 2020 00:18:09 -0700
Subject: drm/i915: Fix ref->mutex deadlock in i915_active_wait()
To: Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>, Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>, David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>, intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org, Sultan Alsawaf <sultan at kerneltoast.com>
Message-ID: <20200407071809.3148-1-sultan at kerneltoast.com>

From: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan at kerneltoast.com>

The following deadlock exists in i915_active_wait() due to a double lock
on ref->mutex (call chain listed in order from top to bottom):
 i915_active_wait();
 mutex_lock_interruptible(&ref->mutex); <-- ref->mutex first acquired
 i915_active_request_retire();
 node_retire();
 active_retire();
 mutex_lock_nested(&ref->mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); <-- DEADLOCK

Fix the deadlock by skipping the second ref->mutex lock when
active_retire() is called through i915_active_request_retire().

Note that this bug only affects 5.4 and has since been fixed in 5.5.
Normally, a backport of the fix from 5.5 would be in order, but the
patch set that fixes this deadlock involves massive changes that are
neither feasible nor desirable for backporting [1][2][3]. Therefore,
this small patch was made to address the deadlock specifically for 5.4.

[1] 274cbf20fd10 ("drm/i915: Push the i915_active.retire into a worker")
[2] 093b92287363 ("drm/i915: Split i915_active.mutex into an irq-safe spinlock for the rbtree")
[3] 750bde2fd4ff ("drm/i915: Serialise with remote retirement")

Fixes: 12c255b5dad1 ("drm/i915: Provide an i915_active.acquire callback")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 5.4.x
Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan at kerneltoast.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.c
@@ -120,13 +120,17 @@ static inline void debug_active_assert(s
 
 #endif
 
+#define I915_ACTIVE_RETIRE_NOLOCK BIT(0)
+
 static void
 __active_retire(struct i915_active *ref)
 {
 	struct active_node *it, *n;
 	struct rb_root root;
 	bool retire = false;
+	unsigned long bits;
 
+	ref = ptr_unpack_bits(ref, &bits, 2);
 	lockdep_assert_held(&ref->mutex);
 
 	/* return the unused nodes to our slabcache -- flushing the allocator */
@@ -138,7 +142,8 @@ __active_retire(struct i915_active *ref)
 		retire = true;
 	}
 
-	mutex_unlock(&ref->mutex);
+	if (!(bits & I915_ACTIVE_RETIRE_NOLOCK))
+		mutex_unlock(&ref->mutex);
 	if (!retire)
 		return;
 
@@ -155,13 +160,18 @@ __active_retire(struct i915_active *ref)
 static void
 active_retire(struct i915_active *ref)
 {
+	struct i915_active *ref_packed = ref;
+	unsigned long bits;
+
+	ref = ptr_unpack_bits(ref, &bits, 2);
 	GEM_BUG_ON(!atomic_read(&ref->count));
 	if (atomic_add_unless(&ref->count, -1, 1))
 		return;
 
 	/* One active may be flushed from inside the acquire of another */
-	mutex_lock_nested(&ref->mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
-	__active_retire(ref);
+	if (!(bits & I915_ACTIVE_RETIRE_NOLOCK))
+		mutex_lock_nested(&ref->mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+	__active_retire(ref_packed);
 }
 
 static void
@@ -170,6 +180,14 @@ node_retire(struct i915_active_request *
 	active_retire(node_from_active(base)->ref);
 }
 
+static void
+node_retire_nolock(struct i915_active_request *base, struct i915_request *rq)
+{
+	struct i915_active *ref = node_from_active(base)->ref;
+
+	active_retire(ptr_pack_bits(ref, I915_ACTIVE_RETIRE_NOLOCK, 2));
+}
+
 static struct i915_active_request *
 active_instance(struct i915_active *ref, struct intel_timeline *tl)
 {
@@ -421,7 +439,8 @@ int i915_active_wait(struct i915_active
 			break;
 		}
 
-		err = i915_active_request_retire(&it->base, BKL(ref));
+		err = i915_active_request_retire(&it->base, BKL(ref),
+						 node_retire_nolock);
 		if (err)
 			break;
 	}
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ i915_active_request_isset(const struct i
  */
 static inline int __must_check
 i915_active_request_retire(struct i915_active_request *active,
-			   struct mutex *mutex)
+			   struct mutex *mutex, i915_active_retire_fn retire)
 {
 	struct i915_request *request;
 	long ret;
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ i915_active_request_retire(struct i915_a
 	list_del_init(&active->link);
 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(active->request, NULL);
 
-	active->retire(active, request);
+	retire(active, request);
 
 	return 0;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sultan at kerneltoast.com are

queue-5.4/drm-i915-fix-ref-mutex-deadlock-in-i915_active_wait.patch


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