[PATCH] bcachefs: no console_lock in bch2_print_string_as_lines

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Wed Jul 10 13:03:35 UTC 2024


console_lock is the outermost subsystem lock for a lot of subsystems,
which means get/put_user must nest within. Which means it cannot be
acquired somewhere deeply nested in other locks, and most definitely
not while holding fs locks potentially needed to resolve faults.

console_trylock is the best we can do here. But John pointed out on a
previous version that this is futile:

"Using the console lock here at all is wrong. The console lock does not
prevent other CPUs from calling printk() and inserting lines in between.

"There is no way to guarantee a contiguous ringbuffer block using
multiple printk() calls.

"The console_lock usage should be removed."

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87frsh33xp.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de/

Do that.

Reported-by: syzbot+6cebc1af246fe020a2f0 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
References: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/00000000000026c1ff061cd0de12@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Fixes: a8f354284304 ("bcachefs: bch2_print_string_as_lines()")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v6.7+
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet at linux.dev>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster at redhat.com>
Cc: linux-bcachefs at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness at linutronix.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
--
v2: Dont trylock, drop console_lock entirely
---
 fs/bcachefs/util.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/bcachefs/util.c b/fs/bcachefs/util.c
index de331dec2a99..dc891563d502 100644
--- a/fs/bcachefs/util.c
+++ b/fs/bcachefs/util.c
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 
 #include <linux/bio.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
-#include <linux/console.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 #include <linux/freezer.h>
@@ -261,7 +260,6 @@ void bch2_print_string_as_lines(const char *prefix, const char *lines)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	console_lock();
 	while (1) {
 		p = strchrnul(lines, '\n');
 		printk("%s%.*s\n", prefix, (int) (p - lines), lines);
@@ -269,7 +267,6 @@ void bch2_print_string_as_lines(const char *prefix, const char *lines)
 			break;
 		lines = p + 1;
 	}
-	console_unlock();
 }
 
 int bch2_save_backtrace(bch_stacktrace *stack, struct task_struct *task, unsigned skipnr,
-- 
2.45.2



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