Patch "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

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

device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock

to the 4.11-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:
device-dax-fix-sysfs-attribute-deadlock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 06:57:01 -0700
Subject: device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock

From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

commit 565851c972b50612f3a4542e26879ffb3e906fc2 upstream.

Usage of device_lock() for dax_region attributes is unnecessary and deadlock prone. It's unnecessary because the order of registration / un-registration guarantees that drvdata is always valid. It's deadlock prone because it sets up this situation:

ndctl D 0 2170 2082 0x00000000

 Call Trace:
  __schedule+0x31f/0x980
  schedule+0x3d/0x90
  schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x20
  __mutex_lock+0x402/0x980
  ? __mutex_lock+0x158/0x980
  ? align_show+0x2b/0x80 [dax]
  ? kernfs_seq_start+0x2f/0x90
  mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20
  align_show+0x2b/0x80 [dax]
  dev_attr_show+0x20/0x50

ndctl D 0 2186 2079 0x00000000

 Call Trace:
  __schedule+0x31f/0x980
  schedule+0x3d/0x90
  __kernfs_remove+0x1f6/0x340
  ? kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x45/0xa0
  ? remove_wait_queue+0x70/0x70
  kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x45/0xa0
  remove_files.isra.1+0x35/0x70
  sysfs_remove_group+0x44/0x90
  sysfs_remove_groups+0x2e/0x50
  dax_region_unregister+0x25/0x40 [dax]
  devm_action_release+0xf/0x20
  release_nodes+0x16d/0x2b0
  devres_release_all+0x3c/0x60
  device_release_driver_internal+0x17d/0x220
  device_release_driver+0x12/0x20
  unbind_store+0x112/0x160

ndctl/2170 is trying to acquire the device_lock() to read an attribute, and ndctl/2186 is holding the device_lock() while trying to drain all active attribute readers.

Thanks to Yi Zhang for the reproduction script.

---
 drivers/dax/dax.c |   40 ++++++++++++----------------------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

@@ -77,36 +77,27 @@ struct dax_dev {
 	struct resource res[0];
 };
 
+/*
+ * Rely on the fact that drvdata is set before the attributes are
+ * registered, and that the attributes are unregistered before drvdata
+ * is cleared to assume that drvdata is always valid.
+ */
 static ssize_t id_show(struct device *dev,
 		struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
-	struct dax_region *dax_region;
-	ssize_t rc = -ENXIO;
+	struct dax_region *dax_region = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
 
-	device_lock(dev);
-	dax_region = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	if (dax_region)
-		rc = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", dax_region->id);
-	device_unlock(dev);
-
-	return rc;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", dax_region->id);
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(id);
 
 static ssize_t region_size_show(struct device *dev,
 		struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
-	struct dax_region *dax_region;
-	ssize_t rc = -ENXIO;
-
-	device_lock(dev);
-	dax_region = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	if (dax_region)
-		rc = sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)
-				resource_size(&dax_region->res));
-	device_unlock(dev);
+	struct dax_region *dax_region = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
 
-	return rc;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)
+			resource_size(&dax_region->res));
 }
 static struct device_attribute dev_attr_region_size = __ATTR(size, 0444,
 		region_size_show, NULL);

@@ -114,16 +105,9 @@ static struct device_attribute dev_attr_
 static ssize_t align_show(struct device *dev,
 		struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
-	struct dax_region *dax_region;
-	ssize_t rc = -ENXIO;
-
-	device_lock(dev);
-	dax_region = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	if (dax_region)
-		rc = sprintf(buf, "%u\n", dax_region->align);
-	device_unlock(dev);
+	struct dax_region *dax_region = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
 
-	return rc;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", dax_region->align);
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(align);
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.11/ext4-return-to-starting-transaction-in-ext4_dax_huge_fault.patch queue-4.11/x86-pmem-fix-cache-flushing-for-iovec-write-8-bytes.patch queue-4.11/dax-prevent-invalidation-of-mapped-dax-entries.patch queue-4.11/dax-fix-pmd-data-corruption-when-fault-races-with-write.patch queue-4.11/device-dax-fix-cdev-leak.patch queue-4.11/device-dax-fix-sysfs-attribute-deadlock.patch queue-4.11/mm-fix-data-corruption-due-to-stale-mmap-reads.patch