- constify compression structures; Bhumika Goyal
- restore powerpc dumping; Ankit Kumar
- fix more bugs in the rarely exercises module unloading logic
- reorganize filesystem locking to fix problems noticed by lockdep
- refactor internal pstore APIs to make development and review easier:
- improve error reporting
- add kernel-doc structure and function comments
- avoid insane argument passing by using a common record structure
pstore: Solve lockdep warning by moving inode locks
Lockdep complains about a possible deadlock between mount and unlink
(which is technically impossible), but fixing this improves possible
future multiple-backend support, and keeps locking in the right order.
The lockdep warning could be triggered by unlinking a file in the
pstore filesystem:
-> #1 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#14){++++++}:
lock_acquire+0xc9/0x220
down_write+0x3f/0x70
pstore_mkfile+0x1f4/0x460
pstore_get_records+0x17a/0x320
pstore_fill_super+0xa4/0xc0
mount_single+0x89/0xb0
pstore_mount+0x13/0x20
mount_fs+0xf/0x90
vfs_kern_mount+0x66/0x170
do_mount+0x190/0xd50
SyS_mount+0x90/0xd0
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1c/0xb1
-> #0 (&psinfo->read_mutex){+.+.+.}:
__lock_acquire+0x1ac0/0x1bb0
lock_acquire+0xc9/0x220
__mutex_lock+0x6e/0x990
mutex_lock_nested+0x16/0x20
pstore_unlink+0x3f/0xa0
vfs_unlink+0xb5/0x190
do_unlinkat+0x24c/0x2a0
SyS_unlinkat+0x16/0x30
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1c/0xb1
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#14);
lock(&psinfo->read_mutex);
lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#14);
lock(&psinfo->read_mutex);
Reported-by: Marta Lofstedt <marta.lofstedt@intel.com>
Reported-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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