[PATCH v2 1/5] powerpc/watchdog: Fix missed watchdog reset due to memory ordering race

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 22:46:07 AEDT 2021


Excerpts from Laurent Dufour's message of November 5, 2021 7:20 pm:
> Le 04/11/2021 à 17:10, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :
>> It is possible for all CPUs to miss the pending cpumask becoming clear,
>> and then nobody resetting it, which will cause the lockup detector to
>> stop working. It will eventually expire, but watchdog_smp_panic will
>> avoid doing anything if the pending mask is clear and it will never be
>> reset.
>> 
>> Order the cpumask clear vs the subsequent test to close this race.
>> 
>> Add an extra check for an empty pending mask when the watchdog fires and
>> finds its bit still clear, to try to catch any other possible races or
>> bugs here and keep the watchdog working. The extra test in
>> arch_touch_nmi_watchdog is required to prevent the new warning from
>> firing off.
>> 
>> Debugged-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
>> index f9ea0e5357f9..be80071336a4 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
>> @@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ static void set_cpumask_stuck(const struct cpumask *cpumask, u64 tb)
>>   {
>>   	cpumask_or(&wd_smp_cpus_stuck, &wd_smp_cpus_stuck, cpumask);
>>   	cpumask_andnot(&wd_smp_cpus_pending, &wd_smp_cpus_pending, cpumask);
>> +	/*
>> +	 * See wd_smp_clear_cpu_pending()
>> +	 */
>> +	smp_mb();
>>   	if (cpumask_empty(&wd_smp_cpus_pending)) {
>>   		wd_smp_last_reset_tb = tb;
>>   		cpumask_andnot(&wd_smp_cpus_pending,
>> @@ -215,13 +219,39 @@ static void wd_smp_clear_cpu_pending(int cpu, u64 tb)
>>   
>>   			cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &wd_smp_cpus_stuck);
>>   			wd_smp_unlock(&flags);
>> +		} else {
>> +			/*
>> +			 * The last CPU to clear pending should have reset the
>> +			 * watchdog, yet we find it empty here. This should not
>> +			 * happen but we can try to recover and avoid a false
>> +			 * positive if it does.
>> +			 */
>> +			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(cpumask_empty(&wd_smp_cpus_pending)))
>> +				goto none_pending;
> 
> I run a stress on my victim node on top of this patch and hit that warning:
> 
> [  C475] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [  C475] WARNING: CPU: 475 PID: 0 at 
> /home/laurent/src/linux-ppc/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c:260 
> wd_smp_clear_cpu_pending+0x320/0x4b0
> [  C475] Modules linked in: rpadlpar_io rpaphp xt_tcpudp iptable_filter 
> ip_tables x_tables xfs pseries_rng rng_core vmx_crypto gf128mul be2net fuse 
> btrfs blake2b_generic libcrc32c xor zstd_compress lzo_compress raid6_pq 
> dm_service_time crc32c_vpmsum lpfc crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic crct10dif_common 
> dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_alua autofs4
> [  C475] CPU: 475 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/475 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 
> 5.15.0-rc2-ppc-bz192129+ #72
> [  C475] NIP:  c00000000003d710 LR: c00000000003d478 CTR: c00000000003e2e0
> [  C475] REGS: c00006b16026f420 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (5.15.0-rc2-ppc-bz192129+)
> [  C475] MSR:  8000000000029033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 22000222  XER: 20000000
> [  C475] CFAR: c00000000003d480 IRQMASK: 3
> [  C475] GPR00: c00000000003e3bc c00006b16026f6c0 c000000001b28700 0000000000000800
> [  C475] GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000800 0000000000000800 0000000000000000
> [  C475] GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000000000f8 00013f06986272e7
> [  C475] GPR12: c00000000003e2e0 c000000007d3df00 0000000000000000 000000001f043b60
> [  C475] GPR16: c00006b1601b7b00 0000000000000000 c00000000003e2e0 0000000000000001
> [  C475] GPR20: 0000347411d4cf28 c00007adbdb0a898 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
> [  C475] GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000003 c000000001b6d7d0 00013f0698627d84
> [  C475] GPR28: c000000001bd05c8 c000000001bd05b8 c000000001bd06c8 00000000000001db
> [  C475] NIP [c00000000003d710] wd_smp_clear_cpu_pending+0x320/0x4b0
> [  C475] LR [c00000000003d478] wd_smp_clear_cpu_pending+0x88/0x4b0
> [  C475] Call Trace:
> [  C475] [c00006b16026f6c0] [0000000000000001] 0x1 (unreliable)
> [  C475] [c00006b16026f770] [c00000000003e3bc] watchdog_timer_fn+0xdc/0x5a0
> [  C475] [c00006b16026f840] [c000000000245a4c] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x49c/0x700
> [  C475] [c00006b16026f8f0] [c000000000246c20] hrtimer_interrupt+0x110/0x310
> [  C475] [c00006b16026f9a0] [c0000000000292f8] timer_interrupt+0x1e8/0x5a0
> [  C475] [c00006b16026fa00] [c000000000009a00] decrementer_common_virt+0x210/0x220
> [  C475] --- interrupt: 900 at plpar_hcall_norets_notrace+0x18/0x2c
> [  C475] NIP:  c0000000000e5dd0 LR: c000000000c18f04 CTR: 0000000000000000
> [  C475] REGS: c00006b16026fa70 TRAP: 0900   Not tainted  (5.15.0-rc2-ppc-bz192129+)
> [  C475] MSR:  8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 22000824  XER: 20000000
> [  C475] CFAR: 0000000000000c00 IRQMASK: 0
> [  C475] GPR00: 0000000000000000 c00006b16026fd10 c000000001b28700 0000000000000000
> [  C475] GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> [  C475] GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
> [  C475] GPR12: 000000000000ffff c000000007d3df00 0000000000000000 000000001f043b60
> [  C475] GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> [  C475] GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000000001a46cd0
> [  C475] GPR24: c000000001b68e38 000034738d859946 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
> [  C475] GPR28: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 c000000001472360 c000000001472368
> [  C475] NIP [c0000000000e5dd0] plpar_hcall_norets_notrace+0x18/0x2c
> [  C475] LR [c000000000c18f04] check_and_cede_processor.part.2+0x24/0x70
> [  C475] --- interrupt: 900
> [  C475] [c00006b16026fd10] [c00007adbdb0a880] 0xc00007adbdb0a880 (unreliable)
> [  C475] [c00006b16026fd70] [c000000000c194f4] dedicated_cede_loop+0x174/0x200
> [  C475] [c00006b16026fdb0] [c000000000c15b2c] cpuidle_enter_state+0x3ac/0x6d0
> [  C475] [c00006b16026fe20] [c000000000c15ef0] cpuidle_enter+0x50/0x70
> [  C475] [c00006b16026fe60] [c0000000001a7f9c] call_cpuidle+0x4c/0x90
> [  C475] [c00006b16026fe80] [c0000000001a84f0] do_idle+0x310/0x3c0
> [  C475] [c00006b16026ff00] [c0000000001a8948] cpu_startup_entry+0x38/0x50
> [  C475] [c00006b16026ff30] [c00000000005fb5c] start_secondary+0x2bc/0x2f0
> [  C475] [c00006b16026ff90] [c00000000000d254] start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14
> [  C475] Instruction dump:
> [  C475] 48eb7049 60000000 e8610068 4bfffee4 392d0918 7c20492a 482c54f1 60000000
> [  C475] 4bfffe4c 60000000 60000000 60000000 <0fe00000> fb210078 fb410080 fb610088
> [  C475] irq event stamp: 0
> [  C475] hardirqs last  enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
> [  C475] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<c00000000014342c>] 
> copy_process+0x76c/0x1e00
> [  C475] softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<c00000000014342c>] 
> copy_process+0x76c/0x1e00
> [  C475] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
> [  C475] ---[ end trace 6e8311d1692d057b ]---
> 
> I guess there is a possible race here between watchdog_timer_interrupt() and 
> another CPU watchdog_smp_panic().

Hmm, yeah of course there would be. May have to just remove that warn.

Thanks,
Nick



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