Subject: cgroup: use irqsave in cgroup_rstat_flush_locked()
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue Jul  3 18:19:48 2018 +0200

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

All callers of cgroup_rstat_flush_locked() acquire cgroup_rstat_lock
either with spin_lock_irq() or spin_lock_irqsave().
cgroup_rstat_flush_locked() itself acquires cgroup_rstat_cpu_lock which
is a raw_spin_lock. This lock is also acquired in cgroup_rstat_updated()
in IRQ context and therefore requires _irqsave() locking suffix in
cgroup_rstat_flush_locked().
Since there is no difference between spin_lock_t and raw_spin_lock_t
on !RT lockdep does not complain here. On RT lockdep complains because
the interrupts were not disabled here and a deadlock is possible.

Acquire the raw_spin_lock_t with disabled interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg23051.html


---
 kernel/cgroup/rstat.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
@ kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:159 @ static void cgroup_rstat_flush_locked(st
 		raw_spinlock_t *cpu_lock = per_cpu_ptr(&cgroup_rstat_cpu_lock,
 						       cpu);
 		struct cgroup *pos = NULL;
+		unsigned long flags;
 
-		raw_spin_lock(cpu_lock);
+		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(cpu_lock, flags);
 		while ((pos = cgroup_rstat_cpu_pop_updated(pos, cgrp, cpu))) {
 			struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
 
@ kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:173 @ static void cgroup_rstat_flush_locked(st
 				css->ss->css_rstat_flush(css, cpu);
 			rcu_read_unlock();
 		}
-		raw_spin_unlock(cpu_lock);
+		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(cpu_lock, flags);
 
 		/* if @may_sleep, play nice and yield if necessary */
 		if (may_sleep && (need_resched() ||