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timer: Provide wrappers safe for use with LOCKDEP
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Under LOCKDEP, the timer lock_class_key (set up in __setup_timer) needs
to be tied to the caller's context, so an inline for timer_setup()
won't work. We do, however, want to keep the inline version around for
argument type checking, though, so this provides macro wrappers in the
LOCKDEP case.

This fixes the case of different timers sharing the same LOCKDEP instance,
and producing a false positive warning:

[  580.840858] ======================================================
[  580.842299] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[  580.843684] 4.14.0-rc4+ #17 Not tainted
[  580.844554] ------------------------------------------------------
[  580.845945] swapper/9/0 is trying to acquire lock:
[  580.847024]  (slock-AF_INET){+.-.}, at: [<ffffffff84ea4c34>] tcp_write_timer+0x24/0xd0
[  580.848834]
               but task is already holding lock:
[  580.850107]  ((timer)#2){+.-.}, at: [<ffffffff846df7c0>] call_timer_fn+0x0/0x300
[  580.851663]
               which lock already depends on the new lock.

[  580.853439]
               the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[  580.855311]
               -> #1 ((timer)#2){+.-.}:
[  580.856538]        __lock_acquire+0x114d/0x11a0
[  580.857506]        lock_acquire+0xb0/0x1d0
[  580.858373]        del_timer_sync+0x3c/0xb0
[  580.859260]        inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop+0x7f/0x1b0
...
               -> #0 (slock-AF_INET){+.-.}:
[  580.884980]        check_prev_add+0x666/0x700
[  580.885790]        __lock_acquire+0x114d/0x11a0
[  580.886575]        lock_acquire+0xb0/0x1d0
[  580.887289]        _raw_spin_lock+0x2c/0x40
[  580.888021]        tcp_write_timer+0x24/0xd0
...
[  580.900055]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[  580.901043]        CPU0                    CPU1
[  580.901797]        ----                    ----
[  580.902540]   lock((timer)#2);
[  580.903046]                                lock(slock-AF_INET);
[  580.904006]                                lock((timer)#2);
[  580.904915]   lock(slock-AF_INET);
[  580.905502]

In this report, del_timer_sync() is from:

	inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop()
		reqsk_queue_unlink()
			del_timer_sync(&req->rsk_timer)

but tcp_write_timer()'s timer is attached to icsk_retransmit_timer. Both
had the same lock_class_key, since they were using timer_setup(). Switching
to a macro allows for a separate context, avoiding the false positive.

Fixes: 686fef9 ("timer: Prepare to change timer callback argument type")
Reported-by: Craig Gallek <cgallek@google.com>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171019202838.GA43223@beast
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kees authored and KAGA-KOKO committed Oct 20, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ static inline void init_timer_on_stack_key(struct timer_list *timer,
#define TIMER_DATA_TYPE unsigned long
#define TIMER_FUNC_TYPE void (*)(TIMER_DATA_TYPE)

#ifndef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
static inline void timer_setup(struct timer_list *timer,
void (*callback)(struct timer_list *),
unsigned int flags)
Expand All @@ -165,6 +166,19 @@ static inline void timer_setup_on_stack(struct timer_list *timer,
__setup_timer_on_stack(timer, (TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)callback,
(TIMER_DATA_TYPE)timer, flags);
}
#else
/*
* Under LOCKDEP, the timer lock_class_key (set up in __init_timer) needs
* to be tied to the caller's context, so an inline (above) won't work. We
* do want to keep the inline for argument type checking, though.
*/
# define timer_setup(timer, callback, flags) \
__setup_timer(timer, (TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)callback, \
(TIMER_DATA_TYPE)timer, flags)
# define timer_setup_on_stack(timer, callback, flags) \
__setup_timer_on_stack(timer, (TIMER_FUNC_TYPE)callback,\
(TIMER_DATA_TYPE)timer, flags)
#endif

#define from_timer(var, callback_timer, timer_fieldname) \
container_of(callback_timer, typeof(*var), timer_fieldname)
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