panic: fix a possible deadlock in panic()

panic_lock is meant to ensure that panic processing takes place only on one cpu; if any of the other cpus encounter a panic, they will spin waiting to be shut down. However, this causes a regression in this scenario: 1. Cpu 0 encounters a panic and acquires the panic_lock and proceeds with the panic processing. 2. There is an interrupt on cpu 0 that also encounters an error condition and invokes panic. 3. This second invocation fails to acquire the panic_lock and enters the infinite while loop in panic_smp_self_stop. Thus all panic processing is stopped, and the cpu is stuck for eternity in the while(1) inside panic_smp_self_stop. To address this, disable local interrupts with local_irq_disable before acquiring the panic_lock. This will prevent interrupt handlers from executing during the panic processing, thus avoiding this particular problem. Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

panic: fix a possible deadlock in panic()
panic_lock is meant to ensure that panic processing takes place only on one cpu; if any of the other cpus encounter a panic, they will spin waiting to be shut down. However, this causes a regression in this scenario: 1. Cpu 0 encounters a panic and acquires the panic_lock and proceeds with the panic processing. 2. There is an interrupt on cpu 0 that also encounters an error condition and invokes panic. 3. This second invocation fails to acquire the panic_lock and enters the infinite while loop in panic_smp_self_stop. Thus all panic processing is stopped, and the cpu is stuck for eternity in the while(1) inside panic_smp_self_stop. To address this, disable local interrupts with local_irq_disable before acquiring the panic_lock. This will prevent interrupt handlers from executing during the panic processing, thus avoiding this particular problem. Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vikram Mulukutla · Linus Torvalds · Eric Lee · Eric Lee
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kernel/panic.c
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@
 	int state = 0;
  
 	/*
+	 * Disable local interrupts. This will prevent panic_smp_self_stop
+	 * from deadlocking the first cpu that invokes the panic, since
+	 * there is nothing to prevent an interrupt handler (that runs
+	 * after the panic_lock is acquired) from invoking panic again.
+	 */
+	local_irq_disable();
+
+	/*
 	 * It's possible to come here directly from a panic-assertion and
 	 * not have preempt disabled. Some functions called from here want
 	 * preempt to be disabled. No point enabling it later though...
...	...	@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@
75	75	int state = 0;
76	76
77	77	/*
	78	+ * Disable local interrupts. This will prevent panic_smp_self_stop
	79	+ * from deadlocking the first cpu that invokes the panic, since
	80	+ * there is nothing to prevent an interrupt handler (that runs
	81	+ * after the panic_lock is acquired) from invoking panic again.
	82	+ */
	83	+ local_irq_disable();
	84	+
	85	+ /*
78	86	* It's possible to come here directly from a panic-assertion and
79	87	* not have preempt disabled. Some functions called from here want
80	88	* preempt to be disabled. No point enabling it later though...