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authorGuilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>2022-08-19 19:17:29 -0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-12-31 13:32:56 +0100
commit16fed31153ceeb7be73dd74370a7c09e77a84dfb (patch)
tree302e90cacccdda202c3bab27c029433093ef9eef /drivers/hv
parent2e356d6de4c71389c493adb444fd52333e72c2dc (diff)
downloadlinux-16fed31153ceeb7be73dd74370a7c09e77a84dfb.tar.gz
video: hyperv_fb: Avoid taking busy spinlock on panic path
[ Upstream commit 1d044ca035dc22df0d3b39e56f2881071d9118bd ]

The Hyper-V framebuffer code registers a panic notifier in order
to try updating its fbdev if the kernel crashed. The notifier
callback is straightforward, but it calls the vmbus_sendpacket()
routine eventually, and such function takes a spinlock for the
ring buffer operations.

Panic path runs in atomic context, with local interrupts and
preemption disabled, and all secondary CPUs shutdown. That said,
taking a spinlock might cause a lockup if a secondary CPU was
disabled with such lock taken. Fix it here by checking if the
ring buffer spinlock is busy on Hyper-V framebuffer panic notifier;
if so, bail-out avoiding the potential lockup scenario.

Cc: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Fabio A M Martins <fabiomirmar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220819221731.480795-10-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hv')
-rw-r--r--drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c b/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
index 59a4aa86d1f3..c6692fd5ab15 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
@@ -280,6 +280,19 @@ void hv_ringbuffer_cleanup(struct hv_ring_buffer_info *ring_info)
 	ring_info->pkt_buffer_size = 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Check if the ring buffer spinlock is available to take or not; used on
+ * atomic contexts, like panic path (see the Hyper-V framebuffer driver).
+ */
+
+bool hv_ringbuffer_spinlock_busy(struct vmbus_channel *channel)
+{
+	struct hv_ring_buffer_info *rinfo = &channel->outbound;
+
+	return spin_is_locked(&rinfo->ring_lock);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hv_ringbuffer_spinlock_busy);
+
 /* Write to the ring buffer. */
 int hv_ringbuffer_write(struct vmbus_channel *channel,
 			const struct kvec *kv_list, u32 kv_count,