From 13fb0f74d7029df3b8137f11ef955e578a4a4a60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Brennan Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 09:18:20 -0800 Subject: printk: Avoid livelock with heavy printk during panic During panic(), if another CPU is writing heavily the kernel log (e.g. via /dev/kmsg), then the panic CPU may livelock writing out its messages to the console. Note when too many messages are dropped during panic and suppress further printk, except from the panic CPU. This could result in some important messages being dropped. However, messages are already being dropped, so this approach at least prevents a livelock. Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220202171821.179394-4-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com --- kernel/printk/printk.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/printk') diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index e83c12770104..2ec6b547cda6 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(console_drivers); */ int __read_mostly suppress_printk; +/* + * During panic, heavy printk by other CPUs can delay the + * panic and risk deadlock on console resources. + */ +int __read_mostly suppress_panic_printk; + #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP static struct lockdep_map console_lock_dep_map = { .name = "console_lock" @@ -2232,6 +2238,10 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level, if (unlikely(suppress_printk)) return 0; + if (unlikely(suppress_panic_printk) && + atomic_read(&panic_cpu) != raw_smp_processor_id()) + return 0; + if (level == LOGLEVEL_SCHED) { level = LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT; in_sched = true; @@ -2617,6 +2627,7 @@ void console_unlock(void) { static char ext_text[CONSOLE_EXT_LOG_MAX]; static char text[CONSOLE_LOG_MAX]; + static int panic_console_dropped; unsigned long flags; bool do_cond_resched, retry; struct printk_info info; @@ -2671,6 +2682,10 @@ skip: if (console_seq != r.info->seq) { console_dropped += r.info->seq - console_seq; console_seq = r.info->seq; + if (panic_in_progress() && panic_console_dropped++ > 10) { + suppress_panic_printk = 1; + pr_warn_once("Too many dropped messages. Suppress messages on non-panic CPUs to prevent livelock.\n"); + } } if (suppress_message_printing(r.info->level)) { -- cgit v1.2.3