linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial read/write

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:12:36 +0100
From:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nok.org>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial read/write

On 01/30/2013 03:41 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Now zram allocates new page with GFP_KERNEL in zram I/O path
> if IO is partial. Unfortunately, It may cause deadlock with
> reclaim path like below.
> 
> write_page from fs
> fs_lock
> allocation(GFP_KERNEL)
> reclaim
> pageout
> 				write_page from fs
> 				fs_lock <-- deadlock
> 
> This patch fixes it by using GFP_NOIO.  In read path, we
> reorganize code flow so that kmap_atomic is called after the
> GFP_NOIO allocation.

For the all series:
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchand@...hat.com>

> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
> [ penberg@...nel.org: don't use GFP_ATOMIC ]
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c |    9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> index 77a3f0d..5ff8749 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -217,11 +217,12 @@ static int zram_bvec_read(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec,
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> -	user_mem = kmap_atomic(page);
>  	if (is_partial_io(bvec))
>  		/* Use  a temporary buffer to decompress the page */
> -		uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	else
> +		uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_NOIO);
> +
> +	user_mem = kmap_atomic(page);
> +	if (!is_partial_io(bvec))
>  		uncmem = user_mem;
>  
>  	if (!uncmem) {
> @@ -268,7 +269,7 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
>  		 * This is a partial IO. We need to read the full page
>  		 * before to write the changes.
>  		 */
> -		uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_NOIO);
>  		if (!uncmem) {
>  			pr_info("Error allocating temp memory!\n");
>  			ret = -ENOMEM;
> 

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/