In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/pci: Fix get_phb_number() locking
The recent change to get_phb_number() causes a DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
warning on some systems:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:580
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
1 lock held by swapper/1:
#0: c157efb0 (hose_spinlock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: pcibios_alloc_controller+0x64/0x220
Preemption disabled at:
[<00000000>] 0x0
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.19.0-yocto-standard+ #1
Call Trace:
[d101dc90] [c073b264] dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x8c (unreliable)
[d101dcb0] [c0093b70] __might_resched+0x258/0x2a8
[d101dcd0] [c0d3e634] __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x6ec
[d101dd50] [c0a84174] of_alias_get_id+0x50/0xf4
[d101dd80] [c002ec78] pcibios_alloc_controller+0x1b8/0x220
[d101ddd0] [c140c9dc] pmac_pci_init+0x198/0x784
[d101de50] [c140852c] discover_phbs+0x30/0x4c
[d101de60] [c0007fd4] do_one_initcall+0x94/0x344
[d101ded0] [c1403b40] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a8/0x22c
[d101df10] [c00086e0] kernel_init+0x34/0x160
[d101df30] [c001b334] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
This is because pcibios_alloc_controller() holds hose_spinlock but
of_alias_get_id() takes of_mutex which can sleep.
The hose_spinlock protects the phb_bitmap, and also the hose_list, but
it doesn't need to be held while get_phb_number() calls the OF routines,
because those are only looking up information in the device tree.
So fix it by having get_phb_number() take the hose_spinlock itself, only
where required, and then dropping the lock before returning.
pcibios_alloc_controller() then needs to take the lock again before the
list_add() but that's safe, the order of the list is not important.
References
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/pci: Fix get_phb_number() locking
The recent change to get_phb_number() causes a DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
warning on some systems:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:580
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
1 lock held by swapper/1:
#0: c157efb0 (hose_spinlock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: pcibios_alloc_controller+0x64/0x220
Preemption disabled at:
[<00000000>] 0x0
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.19.0-yocto-standard+ #1
Call Trace:
[d101dc90] [c073b264] dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x8c (unreliable)
[d101dcb0] [c0093b70] __might_resched+0x258/0x2a8
[d101dcd0] [c0d3e634] __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x6ec
[d101dd50] [c0a84174] of_alias_get_id+0x50/0xf4
[d101dd80] [c002ec78] pcibios_alloc_controller+0x1b8/0x220
[d101ddd0] [c140c9dc] pmac_pci_init+0x198/0x784
[d101de50] [c140852c] discover_phbs+0x30/0x4c
[d101de60] [c0007fd4] do_one_initcall+0x94/0x344
[d101ded0] [c1403b40] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a8/0x22c
[d101df10] [c00086e0] kernel_init+0x34/0x160
[d101df30] [c001b334] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
This is because pcibios_alloc_controller() holds hose_spinlock but
of_alias_get_id() takes of_mutex which can sleep.
The hose_spinlock protects the phb_bitmap, and also the hose_list, but
it doesn't need to be held while get_phb_number() calls the OF routines,
because those are only looking up information in the device tree.
So fix it by having get_phb_number() take the hose_spinlock itself, only
where required, and then dropping the lock before returning.
pcibios_alloc_controller() then needs to take the lock again before the
list_add() but that's safe, the order of the list is not important.
References