[ofa-general] Re: lockdep question (was Re: IPoIB caused a kernel: BUG: softlockup detected on CPU#0!)
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at mellanox.co.il
Sun Mar 11 09:12:31 PDT 2007
Quoting Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl>:
Subject: Re: lockdep question (was Re: IPoIB caused a kernel: BUG: softlockup detected on CPU#0!)
> On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 15:50 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Quoting Roland Dreier <roland.list at gmail.com>:
> > > Subject: Re: IPoIB caused a kernel: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
> > >
> > > >Feb 27 17:47:52 sw169 kernel: [<ffffffff8053aaf1>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x15/0x24
> > > >Feb 27 17:47:52 sw169 kernel: [<ffffffff88067a23>] :ib_ipoib:ipoib_neigh_destructor+0xc2/0x139
> > >
> > > It looks like this is deadlocking trying to take priv->lock in ipoib_neigh_destructor().
> > > One idea I just had would be to build a kernel with CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
> > > turned on, and then rerun this test. There's a good chance that this would
> > > diagnose the deadlock. (I don't have good access to my test machines right now, or
> > > else I would do it myself)
> >
> > OK, I did that. But I get
> > [13440.761857] INFO: trying to register non-static key.
> > [13440.766903] the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
> > [13440.772455] turning off the locking correctness validator.
> > and I am not sure what triggers this, or how to fix it to have the
> > validator actually do its job.
>
> It usually indicates a spinlock is not properly initialized. Like
> __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED() used in a non-static context, use
> spin_lock_init() in these cases.
>
> However looking at the code, ipoib_neight_destructor only uses
> &priv->lock, and that seems to get properly initialized in ipoib_setup()
> using spin_lock_init().
>
> So either there are other sites that instanciate those objects and
> forget about the lock init, or the object is corrupted (use after free?)
OK, thanks for the hint. So I added this:
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
index f9dbc6f..2eea467 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
@@ -821,8 +821,15 @@ static void ipoib_neigh_destructor(struct neighbour *n)
unsigned long flags;
struct ipoib_ah *ah = NULL;
+ if (n->dev->type != ARPHRD_INFINIBAND) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "ipoib_neigh_destructor lock %p wrong type %d !!!!!!!!!!\n",
+ &priv->lock, n->dev->type);
+ BUG_ON(n->dev->type != ARPHRD_INFINIBAND);
+ return;
+ }
+
ipoib_dbg(priv,
"neigh_destructor for %06x " IPOIB_GID_FMT "\n",
IPOIB_QPN(n->ha),
IPOIB_GID_RAW_ARG(n->ha + 4));
And sure enough it triggers:
[ 858.503010] ipoib_neigh_destructor lock c0687880 wrong type 772 !!!!!!!!!!
[ 858.510036] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 858.514723] kernel BUG at drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c:827!
[ 858.521486] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
[ 858.525212] SMP
[ 858.527173] Modules linked in: rdma_cm iw_cm ib_addr ib_ipoib ib_cm ib_sa ib_uverbs ibv
[ 858.538736] CPU: 0
[ 858.538737] EIP: 0060:[<f899bfa5>] Not tainted VLI
[ 858.538738] EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.21-rc3-i686-dbg #4)
[ 858.551755] EIP is at ipoib_neigh_destructor+0x40/0x178 [ib_ipoib]
[ 858.557996] eax: c0687300 ebx: f240e880 ecx: c0223114 edx: c064f280
[ 858.564851] esi: f240e880 edi: f240e880 ebp: c0687880 esp: c06c7e9c
[ 858.571702] ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068
[ 858.577602] Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c06c6000 task=c064f280 task.ti=c06c6000)
[ 858.584883] Stack: f89a37be c0687880 00000304 c022af6e c064f280 00000000 00000000 0000
[ 858.593573] 00000000 c06a2554 00000000 c064f280 00000001 00000000 c064f280 0000
[ 858.602259] c0860be0 c2a1fba0 00000246 c06a2554 f240e880 00000000 f240e880 c04a
[ 858.610946] Call Trace:
[ 858.613723] [<c022af6e>] run_timer_softirq+0x37/0x16b
[ 858.618959] [<c04a1c0f>] dst_run_gc+0x0/0x118
[ 858.623498] [<c04a3eab>] neigh_destroy+0xbe/0x104
[ 858.628382] [<c04a1bb1>] dst_destroy+0x4d/0xab
[ 858.632998] [<c04a1c64>] dst_run_gc+0x55/0x118
[ 858.637620] [<c022b03f>] run_timer_softirq+0x108/0x16b
[ 858.642934] [<c0227634>] __do_softirq+0x5a/0xd5
[ 858.647648] [<c023b435>] trace_hardirqs_on+0x106/0x141
[ 858.652970] [<c0227643>] __do_softirq+0x69/0xd5
[ 858.657677] [<c02276e6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d
[ 858.662210] [<c02167b0>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x77
[ 858.667965] [<c02029ef>] default_idle+0x3b/0x54
[ 858.672681] [<c02029ef>] default_idle+0x3b/0x54
[ 858.677391] [<c0204c33>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38
[ 858.682796] [<c02029ef>] default_idle+0x3b/0x54
[ 858.687505] [<c02029f1>] default_idle+0x3d/0x54
[ 858.692211] [<c0202aaa>] cpu_idle+0xa2/0xbb
[ 858.696569] [<c06cd7c3>] start_kernel+0x40b/0x413
[ 858.701453] [<c06cd1b3>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x205
[ 858.706678] =======================
[ 858.710321] Code: 66 83 f8 20 74 29 0f b7 c0 89 44 24 08 89 6c 24 04 c7 04 24 be 37 9a
[ 858.730997] EIP: [<f899bfa5>] ipoib_neigh_destructor+0x40/0x178 [ib_ipoib] SS:ESP 0068c
[ 858.740271] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Either something is corrupting neighbour dev pointer, or somehow a neighbour
not related to infiniband is assigned ipoib_neigh_destructor.
--
MST
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