linux-kernel - Re: Linus GIT - INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected

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Date:	Sat, 5 Nov 2011 13:31:46 +0400
From:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To:	Luis Henriques <henrix@...andro.org>
Cc:	Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Linus GIT - INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected

(cc'ed Andrew and Alexey)

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 20:49 +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 11:57:20AM -0400, Miles Lane wrote:
> ...
> 
> I'm hitting the exact same problem, using a minimal .config file (can send
> it if required), by just running "find /".
> 
> I have bisected the problem and found that commit
> aa6afca5bcaba8101f3ea09d5c3e4100b2b9f0e5 seems to be the cause of it.

procfs holds sig->cred_guard_mutex to ensure the target's credentials are
not changed.  It is held for a little timeslice.  From the stack trace I
don't understand how sys_execve() can happen with ->cred_guard_mutex
held:

static struct dentry *proc_lookupfd_common(struct inode *dir,
					   struct dentry *dentry,
					   instantiate_t instantiate)
{
    ...
	if (lock_trace(task))
		goto out;

	result = instantiate(dir, dentry, task, &fd);
	unlock_trace(task);
    ...
}


static int lock_trace(struct task_struct *task)
{
	int err = mutex_lock_killable(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
	if (err)
		return err;
	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH)) {
		mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
		return -EPERM;
	}
	return 0;
}

proc_lookupfd_common() always exits without ->cred_guard_mutex held.


Thanks,

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Vasiliy Kulikov
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