[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
Sat Apr 11 11:39:46 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  Sat Apr 11 13:39:11 2020
From: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan at kerneltoast.com>
Date: Tue,  7 Apr 2020 13:32:22 -0700
Subject: drm/i915: Fix ref->mutex deadlock in i915_active_wait()
To: stable at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>, 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: <20200407203222.2493-1-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 |   29 +++++++++++++++++++----------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.c
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static inline void debug_active_assert(s
 #endif
 
 static void
-__active_retire(struct i915_active *ref)
+__active_retire(struct i915_active *ref, bool lock)
 {
 	struct active_node *it, *n;
 	struct rb_root root;
@@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ __active_retire(struct i915_active *ref)
 		retire = true;
 	}
 
-	mutex_unlock(&ref->mutex);
+	if (likely(lock))
+		mutex_unlock(&ref->mutex);
 	if (!retire)
 		return;
 
@@ -153,21 +154,28 @@ __active_retire(struct i915_active *ref)
 }
 
 static void
-active_retire(struct i915_active *ref)
+active_retire(struct i915_active *ref, bool lock)
 {
 	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 (likely(lock))
+		mutex_lock_nested(&ref->mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+	__active_retire(ref, lock);
 }
 
 static void
 node_retire(struct i915_active_request *base, struct i915_request *rq)
 {
-	active_retire(node_from_active(base)->ref);
+	active_retire(node_from_active(base)->ref, true);
+}
+
+static void
+node_retire_nolock(struct i915_active_request *base, struct i915_request *rq)
+{
+	active_retire(node_from_active(base)->ref, false);
 }
 
 static struct i915_active_request *
@@ -364,7 +372,7 @@ int i915_active_acquire(struct i915_acti
 void i915_active_release(struct i915_active *ref)
 {
 	debug_active_assert(ref);
-	active_retire(ref);
+	active_retire(ref, true);
 }
 
 static void __active_ungrab(struct i915_active *ref)
@@ -391,7 +399,7 @@ void i915_active_ungrab(struct i915_acti
 {
 	GEM_BUG_ON(!test_bit(I915_ACTIVE_GRAB_BIT, &ref->flags));
 
-	active_retire(ref);
+	active_retire(ref, true);
 	__active_ungrab(ref);
 }
 
@@ -421,12 +429,13 @@ 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;
 	}
 
-	__active_retire(ref);
+	__active_retire(ref, true);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
--- 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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