Commit 21abae56 authored by Guenter Roeck's avatar Guenter Roeck Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

watchdog: core: Fix circular locking dependency

commit e1f30282 upstream.

lockdep reports the following circular locking dependency.

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INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
4.6.0-rc3-00191-gfabf418 #162 Not tainted
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systemd/1 is trying to acquire lock:
((&(&wd_data->work)->work)){+.+...}, at: [<80141650>] flush_work+0x0/0x280

but task is already holding lock:

(&wd_data->lock){+.+...}, at: [<804acfa8>] watchdog_release+0x18/0x190

which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #1 (&wd_data->lock){+.+...}:
	[<80662310>] mutex_lock_nested+0x64/0x4a8
	[<804aca4c>] watchdog_ping_work+0x18/0x4c
	[<80143128>] process_one_work+0x1ac/0x500
	[<801434b4>] worker_thread+0x38/0x554
	[<80149510>] kthread+0xf4/0x108
	[<80107c10>] ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24

-> #0 ((&(&wd_data->work)->work)){+.+...}:
	[<8017c4e8>] lock_acquire+0x70/0x90
	[<8014169c>] flush_work+0x4c/0x280
	[<801440f8>] __cancel_work_timer+0x9c/0x1e0
	[<804acfcc>] watchdog_release+0x3c/0x190
	[<8022c5e8>] __fput+0x80/0x1c8
	[<80147b28>] task_work_run+0x94/0xc8
	[<8010b998>] do_work_pending+0x8c/0xb4
	[<80107ba8>] slow_work_pending+0xc/0x20

other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:

CPU0                    CPU1
----                    ----
lock(&wd_data->lock);
                        lock((&(&wd_data->work)->work));
                        lock(&wd_data->lock);
lock((&(&wd_data->work)->work));
parent cf63f060
......@@ -736,7 +736,6 @@ static int watchdog_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
watchdog_ping(wdd);
}
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&wd_data->work);
watchdog_update_worker(wdd);
/* make sure that /dev/watchdog can be re-opened */
......
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