linux-kernel - Re: possible deadlock in blkdev_reread

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Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 19:30:33 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:     dvyukov@...gle.com
Cc:     ebiggers3@...il.com,
        syzbot+4684a000d5abdade83fac55b1e7d1f935ef1936e@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        axboe@...nel.dk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: possible deadlock in blkdev_reread_part

Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > syzbot is reporting various bugs which involve /dev/loopX.
> > Two of them
> >
> >   INFO: rcu detected stall in lo_ioctl
> >   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=7b49fb610af9cca78c24e9f796f2e8b0d5573997
> >
> >   general protection fault in lo_ioctl (2)
> >   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=f3cfe26e785d85f9ee259f385515291d21bd80a3
> 
> /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
> 
> Now there is a repro for this one. I've pushed it to kernel mailing lists:
> 
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/c8KUcTAzTvA/3o_7g6-tAwAJ

OK, thanks. But among loop related reports, this will be a dup of
"INFO: rcu detected stall in blkdev_ioctl" which already has C reproducer.
Should we merge them?

  INFO: rcu detected stall in blkdev_ioctl
  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=1f7b710f4110f225aed1f4263ec2b98b8dbd472e

  general protection fault in lo_ioctl (2)
  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=f3cfe26e785d85f9ee259f385515291d21bd80a3
  #syz dup: INFO: rcu detected stall in blkdev_ioctl

  INFO: rcu detected stall in lo_compat_ioctl
  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=6299555c4e252b53f7a2ae2b8216cc9456c56ac0
  #syz dup: INFO: rcu detected stall in blkdev_ioctl

  INFO: rcu detected stall in lo_ioctl
  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=7b49fb610af9cca78c24e9f796f2e8b0d5573997
  #syz dup: INFO: rcu detected stall in blkdev_ioctl

  INFO: task hung in lo_ioctl
  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=608144371e7fc2cb6285b9ed871fb1eb817a61ce

  INFO: task hung in lo_open (2)
  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=1f93b57f496d969efb9fb24167f6f9de5ee068fd

  possible deadlock in blkdev_reread_part
  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=bf154052f0eea4bc7712499e4569505907d15889

  INFO: task hung in loop_control_ioctl
  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=61fe32c77ea00412c5149bd34649a65b7f672b5e

  WARNING in sysfs_remove_group
  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=3f86c0edf75c86d2633aeb9dd69eccc70bc7e90b

> 
> > suggest that loop module is not thread safe. The former suggests that
> > l->lo_backing_file is forming circular loop and the latter suggests that
> > l->lo_backing_file became NULL.