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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-04-14 19:51:06 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-04-14 23:05:52 +0200
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x86/speculation: Prevent deadlock on ssb_state::lock
Mikhail reported a lockdep splat related to the AMD specific ssb_state lock: CPU0 CPU1 lock(&st->lock); local_irq_disable(); lock(&(&sighand->siglock)->rlock); lock(&st->lock); <Interrupt> lock(&(&sighand->siglock)->rlock); *** DEADLOCK *** The connection between sighand->siglock and st->lock comes through seccomp, which takes st->lock while holding sighand->siglock. Make sure interrupts are disabled when __speculation_ctrl_update() is invoked via prctl() -> speculation_ctrl_update(). Add a lockdep assert to catch future offenders. Fixes: 1f50ddb4f418 ("x86/speculation: Handle HT correctly on AMD") Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904141948200.4917@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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