CVE-2023-53730: kernel: blk-iocost: use spin_lock_irqsave in adjust_inuse_and_calc_cost
Component: kernel
Severity: Low
CWE: CWE-833 (Deadlock)
CVSS v3: 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Public date: 2025-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

blk-iocost: use spin_lock_irqsave in adjust_inuse_and_calc_cost

adjust_inuse_and_calc_cost() use spin_lock_irq() and IRQ will be enabled
when unlock. DEADLOCK might happen if we have held other locks and disabled
IRQ before invoking it.

Fix it by using spin_lock_irqsave() instead, which can keep IRQ state
consistent with before when unlock.

  ================================
  WARNING: inconsistent lock state
  5.10.0-02758-g8e5f91fd772f #26 Not tainted
  --------------------------------
  inconsistent {IN-HARDIRQ-W} -> {HARDIRQ-ON-W} usage.
  kworker/2:3/388 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] takes:
  ffff888118c00c28 (&bfqd->lock){?.-.}-{2:2}, at: spin_lock_irq
  ffff888118c00c28 (&bfqd->lock){?.-.}-{2:2}, at: bfq_bio_merge+0x141/0x390
  {IN-HARDIRQ-W} state was registered at:
    __lock_acquire+0x3d7/0x1070
    lock_acquire+0x197/0x4a0
    __raw_spin_lock_irqsave
    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3b/0x60
    bfq_idle_slice_timer_body
    bfq_idle_slice_timer+0x53/0x1d0
    __run_hrtimer+0x477/0xa70
    __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1c6/0x2d0
    hrtimer_interrupt+0x302/0x9e0
    local_apic_timer_interrupt
    __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xfd/0x420
    run_sysvec_on_irqstack_cond
    sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x46/0xa0
    asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
  irq event stamp: 837522
  hardirqs last  enabled at (837521): [<ffffffff84b9419d>] __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
  hardirqs last  enabled at (837521): [<ffffffff84b9419d>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3d/0x40
  hardirqs last disabled at (837522): [<ffffffff84b93fa3>] __raw_spin_lock_irq
  hardirqs last disabled at (837522): [<ffffffff84b93fa3>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x43/0x50
  softirqs last  enabled at (835852): [<ffffffff84e00558>] __do_softirq+0x558/0x8ec
  softirqs last disabled at (835845): [<ffffffff84c010ff>] asm_call_irq_on_stack+0xf/0x20

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

         CPU0
         ----
    lock(&bfqd->lock);
    <Interrupt>
      lock(&bfqd->lock);

   *** DEADLOCK ***

  3 locks held by kworker/2:3/388:
   #0: ffff888107af0f38 ((wq_completion)kthrotld){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x742/0x13f0
   #1: ffff8881176bfdd8 ((work_completion)(&td->dispatch_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x777/0x13f0
   #2: ffff888118c00c28 (&bfqd->lock){?.-.}-{2:2}, at: spin_lock_irq
   #2: ffff888118c00c28 (&bfqd->lock){?.-.}-{2:2}, at: bfq_bio_merge+0x141/0x390

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 2 PID: 388 Comm: kworker/2:3 Not tainted 5.10.0-02758-g8e5f91fd772f #26
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  Workqueue: kthrotld blk_throtl_dispatch_work_fn
  Call Trace:
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
   dump_stack+0x107/0x167
   print_usage_bug
   valid_state
   mark_lock_irq.cold+0x32/0x3a
   mark_lock+0x693/0xbc0
   mark_held_locks+0x9e/0xe0
   __trace_hardirqs_on_caller
   lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare.part.0+0x151/0x360
   trace_hardirqs_on+0x5b/0x180
   __raw_spin_unlock_irq
   _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x40
   spin_unlock_irq
   adjust_inuse_and_calc_cost+0x4fb/0x970
   ioc_rqos_merge+0x277/0x740
   __rq_qos_merge+0x62/0xb0
   rq_qos_merge
   bio_attempt_back_merge+0x12c/0x4a0
   blk_mq_sched_try_merge+0x1b6/0x4d0
   bfq_bio_merge+0x24a/0x390
   __blk_mq_sched_bio_merge+0xa6/0x460
   blk_mq_sched_bio_merge
   blk_mq_submit_bio+0x2e7/0x1ee0
   __submit_bio_noacct_mq+0x175/0x3b0
   submit_bio_noacct+0x1fb/0x270
   blk_throtl_dispatch_work_fn+0x1ef/0x2b0
   process_one_work+0x83e/0x13f0
   process_scheduled_works
   worker_thread+0x7e3/0xd80
   kthread+0x353/0x470
   ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30


Affected upstream versions: 5.10
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 5.10.188, 5.15.121, 6.1.39, 6.3.13, 6.4.4, 6.5
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: 8563b58a4360e648ce18f0e98a75a4be51667431