linux-kernel - Re: mm: uninterruptable tasks hanged on mmap

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Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 2016 22:24:04 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: mm: uninterruptable tasks hanged on mmap_sem

On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:

> Original log from fuzzer contained the following WARNING in
> mm/rmap.c:412. But when I tried to reproduce it, I hit these hanged
> processes instead. I can't reliably detect what program triggered
> what. So it may be related, or maybe a separate issue.
> 
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:412!

Are you by any chance in this test sending signals to the fuzzer?

If so, the bug I just fixed in floppy driver can cause all kinds of memory 
corruptions in case you're running multithreaded accessess to /dev/fd0 and 
sending singals to the threads that are trying to access /dev/fd0 at the 
same time.

Could you please double check that the other floppy fix I've sent you a 
couple days ago doesn't fix this as well? (this test makes sense only if 
signals are involved though).

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs