mtd: blkdevs: fix potential deadlock + lockdep warnings
Commit 073db4a5 ("mtd: fix: avoid race condition when accessing mtd->usecount") fixed a race condition but due to poor ordering of the mutex acquisition, introduced a potential deadlock. The deadlock can occur, for example, when rmmod'ing the m25p80 module, which will delete one or more MTDs, along with any corresponding mtdblock devices. This could potentially race with an acquisition of the block device as follows. -> blktrans_open() -> mutex_lock(&dev->lock); -> mutex_lock(&mtd_table_mutex); -> del_mtd_device() -> mutex_lock(&mtd_table_mutex); -> blktrans_notify_remove() -> del_mtd_blktrans_dev() -> mutex_lock(&dev->lock); This is a classic (potential) ABBA deadlock, which can be fixed by making the A->B ordering consistent everywhere. There was no real purpose to the ordering in the original patch, AFAIR, so this shouldn't be a problem. This ordering was actually already present in del_mtd_blktrans_dev(), for one, where the function tried to ensure that its caller already held mtd_table_mutex before it acquired &dev->lock: if (mutex_trylock(&mtd_table_mutex)) { mutex_unlock(&mtd_table_mutex); BUG(); } So, reverse the ordering of acquisition of &dev->lock and &mtd_table_mutex so we always acquire mtd_table_mutex first. Snippets of the lockdep output follow: # modprobe -r m25p80 [ 53.419251] [ 53.420838] ====================================================== [ 53.427300] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] [ 53.433865] 4.3.0-rc6 #96 Not tainted [ 53.437686] ------------------------------------------------------- [ 53.444220] modprobe/372 is trying to acquire lock: [ 53.449320] (&new->lock){+.+...}, at: [<c043fe4c>] del_mtd_blktrans_dev+0x80/0xdc [ 53.457271] [ 53.457271] but task is already holding lock: [ 53.463372] (mtd_table_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0439994>] del_mtd_device+0x18/0x100 [ 53.471321] [ 53.471321] which lock already depends on the new lock. [ 53.471321] [ 53.479856] [ 53.479856] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: [ 53.487660] -> #1 (mtd_table_mutex){+.+.+.}: [ 53.492331] [<c043fc5c>] blktrans_open+0x34/0x1a4 [ 53.497879] [<c01afce0>] __blkdev_get+0xc4/0x3b0 [ 53.503364] [<c01b0bb8>] blkdev_get+0x108/0x320 [ 53.508743] [<c01713c0>] do_dentry_open+0x218/0x314 [ 53.514496] [<c0180454>] path_openat+0x4c0/0xf9c [ 53.519959] [<c0182044>] do_filp_open+0x5c/0xc0 [ 53.525336] [<c0172758>] do_sys_open+0xfc/0x1cc [ 53.530716] [<c000f740>] ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c [ 53.536375] -> #0 (&new->lock){+.+...}: [ 53.540587] [<c063f124>] mutex_lock_nested+0x38/0x3cc [ 53.546504] [<c043fe4c>] del_mtd_blktrans_dev+0x80/0xdc [ 53.552606] [<c043f164>] blktrans_notify_remove+0x7c/0x84 [ 53.558891] [<c04399f0>] del_mtd_device+0x74/0x100 [ 53.564544] [<c043c670>] del_mtd_partitions+0x80/0xc8 [ 53.570451] [<c0439aa0>] mtd_device_unregister+0x24/0x48 [ 53.576637] [<c046ce6c>] spi_drv_remove+0x1c/0x34 [ 53.582207] [<c03de0f0>] __device_release_driver+0x88/0x114 [ 53.588663] [<c03de19c>] device_release_driver+0x20/0x2c [ 53.594843] [<c03dd9e8>] bus_remove_device+0xd8/0x108 [ 53.600748] [<c03dacc0>] device_del+0x10c/0x210 [ 53.606127] [<c03dadd0>] device_unregister+0xc/0x20 [ 53.611849] [<c046d878>] __unregister+0x10/0x20 [ 53.617211] [<c03da868>] device_for_each_child+0x50/0x7c [ 53.623387] [<c046eae8>] spi_unregister_master+0x58/0x8c [ 53.629578] [<c03e12f0>] release_nodes+0x15c/0x1c8 [ 53.635223] [<c03de0f8>] __device_release_driver+0x90/0x114 [ 53.641689] [<c03de900>] driver_detach+0xb4/0xb8 [ 53.647147] [<c03ddc78>] bus_remove_driver+0x4c/0xa0 [ 53.652970] [<c00cab50>] SyS_delete_module+0x11c/0x1e4 [ 53.658976] [<c000f740>] ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c [ 53.664621] [ 53.664621] other info that might help us debug this: [ 53.664621] [ 53.672979] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 53.672979] [ 53.679169] CPU0 CPU1 [ 53.683900] ---- ---- [ 53.688633] lock(mtd_table_mutex); [ 53.692383] lock(&new->lock); [ 53.698306] lock(mtd_table_mutex); [ 53.704658] lock(&new->lock); [ 53.707946] [ 53.707946] *** DEADLOCK *** Fixes: 073db4a5 ("mtd: fix: avoid race condition when accessing mtd->usecount") Reported-by:Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Tested-by:
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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