linux-kernel - Re: tty: possible deadlock in tty_buffer

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Message-ID: <1496796130.2692.26.camel@sandisk.com>
Date:   Wed, 7 Jun 2017 00:42:12 +0000
From:   Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@...disk.com>
To:     "jslaby@...e.com" <jslaby@...e.com>,
        "andreyknvl@...gle.com" <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "syzkaller@...glegroups.com" <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        "kcc@...gle.com" <kcc@...gle.com>,
        "dvyukov@...gle.com" <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: tty: possible deadlock in tty_buffer_flush

On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 17:19 +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> I've got the following error report while fuzzing the kernel with syzkaller.
> 
> On commit 5ed02dbb497422bf225783f46e6eadd237d23d6b (4.12-rc3).
> 
> ======================================================
> WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> 4.12.0-rc3+ #369 Not tainted
> ------------------------------------------------------
> kworker/u9:1/31 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (&buf->lock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff823dd42b>]
> tty_buffer_flush+0xbb/0x3b0 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:221
> 
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (&o_tty->termios_rwsem/1){++++..}, at: [<ffffffff823cd5d1>]
> isig+0xa1/0x4d0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1100
> 
> which lock already depends on the new lock.

Hello Andrey,

I also see this warning but during regular boot (without running syzkaller).
Do you perhaps have the time to bisect this?

Thanks,

Bart.