[PATCH kernel v2] powerpc/iommu: Annotate nested lock for lockdep

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Mon Mar 1 17:36:53 AEDT 2021


The IOMMU table is divided into pools for concurrent mappings and each
pool has a separate spinlock. When taking the ownership of an IOMMU group
to pass through a device to a VM, we lock these spinlocks which triggers
a false negative warning in lockdep (below).

This fixes it by annotating the large pool's spinlock as a nest lock
which makes lockdep not complaining when locking nested locks if
the nest lock is locked already.

===
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
5.11.0-le_syzkaller_a+fstn1 #100 Not tainted
--------------------------------------------
qemu-system-ppc/4129 is trying to acquire lock:
c0000000119bddb0 (&(p->lock)/1){....}-{2:2}, at: iommu_take_ownership+0xac/0x1e0

but task is already holding lock:
c0000000119bdd30 (&(p->lock)/1){....}-{2:2}, at: iommu_take_ownership+0xac/0x1e0

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0
       ----
  lock(&(p->lock)/1);
  lock(&(p->lock)/1);
===

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
---
Changes:
v2:
* fixed iommu_release_ownership() as well

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
index c1a5c366a664..d0df3e5ff5e0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ int iommu_take_ownership(struct iommu_table *tbl)
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&tbl->large_pool.lock, flags);
 	for (i = 0; i < tbl->nr_pools; i++)
-		spin_lock(&tbl->pools[i].lock);
+		spin_lock_nest_lock(&tbl->pools[i].lock, &tbl->large_pool.lock);
 
 	iommu_table_release_pages(tbl);
 
@@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ void iommu_release_ownership(struct iommu_table *tbl)
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&tbl->large_pool.lock, flags);
 	for (i = 0; i < tbl->nr_pools; i++)
-		spin_lock(&tbl->pools[i].lock);
+		spin_lock_nest_lock(&tbl->pools[i].lock, &tbl->large_pool.lock);
 
 	memset(tbl->it_map, 0, sz);
 
-- 
2.17.1



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