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timekeeping: Fix HRTICK related deadlock from ntp lock changes
authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:50:56 +0000 (16:50 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:40:58 +0000 (09:40 -0700)
commit7ee4ddd24bf7ceee9400de450f69e327f7970f7c
tree2c79886b6ac98f8498b438926c4f19078a0e775d
parentb8a1785c3c1ce85a36d3088e3322f9a2619716bd
timekeeping: Fix HRTICK related deadlock from ntp lock changes

commit 7bd36014460f793c19e7d6c94dab67b0afcfcb7f upstream.

Gerlando Falauto reported that when HRTICK is enabled, it is
possible to trigger system deadlocks. These were hard to
reproduce, as HRTICK has been broken in the past, but seemed
to be connected to the timekeeping_seq lock.

Since seqlock/seqcount's aren't supported w/ lockdep, I added
some extra spinlock based locking and triggered the following
lockdep output:

[   15.849182] ntpd/4062 is trying to acquire lock:
[   15.849765]  (&(&pool->lock)->rlock){..-...}, at: [<ffffffff810aa9b5>] __queue_work+0x145/0x480
[   15.850051]
[   15.850051] but task is already holding lock:
[   15.850051]  (timekeeper_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [<ffffffff810df6df>] do_adjtimex+0x7f/0x100

<snip>

[   15.850051] Chain exists of: &(&pool->lock)->rlock --> &p->pi_lock --> timekeeper_lock
[   15.850051]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[   15.850051]
[   15.850051]        CPU0                    CPU1
[   15.850051]        ----                    ----
[   15.850051]   lock(timekeeper_lock);
[   15.850051]                                lock(&p->pi_lock);
[   15.850051] lock(timekeeper_lock);
[   15.850051] lock(&(&pool->lock)->rlock);
[   15.850051]
[   15.850051]  *** DEADLOCK ***

The deadlock was introduced by 06c017fdd4dc48451a ("timekeeping:
Hold timekeepering locks in do_adjtimex and hardpps") in 3.10

This patch avoids this deadlock, by moving the call to
schedule_delayed_work() outside of the timekeeper lock
critical section.

Reported-by: Gerlando Falauto <gerlando.falauto@keymile.com>
Tested-by: Lin Ming <minggr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378943457-27314-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/timex.h
kernel/time/ntp.c
kernel/time/timekeeping.c