epoll can acquire multiple ep->mutex on multiple "struct eventpoll"s
at once in the case where one epoll fd is monitoring another epoll
fd. This is perfectly OK, since we're careful about the lock ordering,
but causes spurious lockdep warnings. Annotate the recursion using
mutex_lock_nested, and add a comment explaining the nesting rules for
good measure.
 
Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>
---
 I've tested this on a synthetic epoll test case, that just adds e1 to
 e2 and then does an epoll_wait(). I verified that it caused lockdep
 problems on 3.0 and that this patch fixed it, but I haven't done more
 extensive testing. Paul, are you able to test systemd against this?
 
 fs/eventpoll.c |   25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index f9cfd16..0cb7bc6 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -76,6 +76,15 @@
  * Events that require holding "epmutex" are very rare, while for
  * normal operations the epoll private "ep->mtx" will guarantee
  * a better scalability.
+ * It is possible to acquire multiple "ep->mtx"es at once in the case
+ * when one epoll fd is added to another. In this case, we always
+ * acquire the locks in the order of nesting (i.e. after epoll_ctl(e1,
+ * EPOLL_CTL_ADD, e2), e1->mtx will always be acquired before
+ * e2->mtx). Since we disallow cycles of epoll file descriptors, this
+ * ensures that the mutexes are well-ordered. In order to communicate
+ * this nesting to lockdep, when walking a tree of epoll file
+ * descriptors, we use the current recursion depth as the lockdep
+ * subkey.
  */
 
 /* Epoll private bits inside the event mask */
@@ -464,13 +473,15 @@ static void ep_unregister_pollwait(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi)
  * @ep: Pointer to the epoll private data structure.
  * @sproc: Pointer to the scan callback.
  * @priv: Private opaque data passed to the @sproc callback.
+ * @depth: The current depth of recursive f_op->poll calls.
  *
  * Returns: The same integer error code returned by the @sproc callback.
  */
 static int ep_scan_ready_list(struct eventpoll *ep,
 			      int (*sproc)(struct eventpoll *,
 					   struct list_head *, void *),
-			      void *priv)
+			      void *priv,
+			      int depth)
 {
 	int error, pwake = 0;
 	unsigned long flags;
@@ -481,7 +492,7 @@ static int ep_scan_ready_list(struct eventpoll *ep,
 	 * We need to lock this because we could be hit by
 	 * eventpoll_release_file() and epoll_ctl().
 	 */
-	mutex_lock(&ep->mtx);
+	mutex_lock_nested(&ep->mtx, depth);
 
 	/*
 	 * Steal the ready list, and re-init the original one to the
@@ -670,7 +681,7 @@ static int ep_read_events_proc(struct eventpoll *ep, struct list_head *head,
 
 static int ep_poll_readyevents_proc(void *priv, void *cookie, int call_nests)
 {
-	return ep_scan_ready_list(priv, ep_read_events_proc, NULL);
+	return ep_scan_ready_list(priv, ep_read_events_proc, NULL, call_nests + 1);
 }
 
 static unsigned int ep_eventpoll_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
@@ -737,7 +748,7 @@ void eventpoll_release_file(struct file *file)
 
 		ep = epi->ep;
 		list_del_init(&epi->fllink);
-		mutex_lock(&ep->mtx);
+		mutex_lock_nested(&ep->mtx, 0);
 		ep_remove(ep, epi);
 		mutex_unlock(&ep->mtx);
 	}
@@ -1134,7 +1145,7 @@ static int ep_send_events(struct eventpoll *ep,
 	esed.maxevents = maxevents;
 	esed.events = events;
 
-	return ep_scan_ready_list(ep, ep_send_events_proc, &esed);
+	return ep_scan_ready_list(ep, ep_send_events_proc, &esed, 0);
 }
 
 static inline struct timespec ep_set_mstimeout(long ms)
@@ -1267,7 +1278,7 @@ static int ep_loop_check_proc(void *priv, void *cookie, int call_nests)
 	struct rb_node *rbp;
 	struct epitem *epi;
 
-	mutex_lock(&ep->mtx);
+	mutex_lock_nested(&ep->mtx, call_nests + 1);
 	for (rbp = rb_first(&ep->rbr); rbp; rbp = rb_next(rbp)) {
 		epi = rb_entry(rbp, struct epitem, rbn);
 		if (unlikely(is_file_epoll(epi->ffd.file))) {
@@ -1409,7 +1420,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(epoll_ctl, int, epfd, int, op, int, fd,
 	}
 
 
-	mutex_lock(&ep->mtx);
+	mutex_lock_nested(&ep->mtx, 0);
 
 	/*
 	 * Try to lookup the file inside our RB tree, Since we grabbed "mtx"
-- 
1.7.4.1
 
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