debugobject: Prevent init race with static objects
Statically initialized objects are usually not initialized via the init() function of the subsystem. They are special cased and the subsystem provides a function to validate whether an object which is not yet tracked by debugobjects is statically initialized. This means the object is started to be tracked on first use, e.g. activation. This works perfectly fine, unless there are two concurrent operations on that object. Schspa decoded the problem: T0 T1 debug_object_assert_init(addr) lock_hash_bucket() obj = lookup_object(addr); if (!obj) { unlock_hash_bucket(); - > preemption lock_subsytem_object(addr); activate_object(addr) lock_hash_bucket(); obj = lookup_object(addr); if (!obj) { unlock_hash_bucket(); if (is_static_object(addr)) init_and_track(addr); lock_hash_bucket(); obj = lookup_object(addr); obj->state = ACTIVATED; unlock_hash_bucket(); subsys function modifies content of addr, so static object detection does not longer work. unlock_subsytem_object(addr); if (is_static_object(addr)) <- Fails debugobject emits a warning and invokes the fixup function which reinitializes the already active object in the worst case. This race exists forever, but was never observed until mod_timer() got a debug_object_assert_init() added which is outside of the timer base lock held section right at the beginning of the function to cover the lockless early exit points too. Rework the code so that the lookup, the static object check and the tracking object association happens atomically under the hash bucket lock. This prevents the issue completely as all callers are serialized on the hash bucket lock and therefore cannot observe inconsistent state. Fixes: 3ac7fe5a ("infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects") Reported-by: syzbot+5093ba19745994288b53@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Debugged-by: Schspa Shi <schspa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=22c8a5938eab640d1c6bcc0e3dc7be519d878462 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230303161906.831686-1-schspa@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87zg7dzgao.ffs@tglx
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