linux-kernel - Re: WARNING: lock held when returning to user space!

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Message-ID: <63121c85-f417-cde8-510d-f275dbe81c4d@kernel.dk>
Date:   Fri, 6 Apr 2018 09:01:46 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+31e8daa8b3fc129e75f2@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>
Subject: Re: WARNING: lock held when returning to user space!

On 4/6/18 8:57 AM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> wrote:
>> On 4/6/18 7:02 AM, syzbot wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> syzbot hit the following crash on upstream commit
>>> 38c23685b273cfb4ccf31a199feccce3bdcb5d83 (Fri Apr 6 04:29:35 2018 +0000)
>>> Merge tag 'armsoc-drivers' of
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
>>> syzbot dashboard link:
>>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=31e8daa8b3fc129e75f2
>>>
>>> So far this crash happened 9 times on upstream.
>>> C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?id=6407930337296384
>>> syzkaller reproducer:
>>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?id=4942413340606464
>>> Raw console output:
>>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?id=4764483918495744
>>> Kernel config:
>>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?id=-5813481738265533882
>>> compiler: gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180301 (experimental)
>>>
>>> IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
>>> Reported-by: syzbot+31e8daa8b3fc129e75f2@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>>> It will help syzbot understand when the bug is fixed. See footer for
>>> details.
>>> If you forward the report, please keep this part and the footer.
>>>
>>>
>>> ================================================
>>> WARNING: lock held when returning to user space!
>>> 4.16.0+ #3 Not tainted
>>> ------------------------------------------------
>>> syzkaller433111/4462 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
>>> 1 lock held by syzkaller433111/4462:
>>>   #0: 0000000003a06fae (&lo->lo_ctl_mutex/1){+.+.}, at: lo_ioctl+0x8d/0x1ec0
>>> drivers/block/loop.c:1363
>>
>> Is this a new regression? Omar did just fiddle with the locking a bit,
>> seems suspicious.
> 
> Looking at:
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=31e8daa8b3fc129e75f2
> It first happened 4 hours ago and 9 times since then, so probably a
> just introduced regression.

After writing that, I saw the discussion in another
thread ("INFO: task hung in lo_ioctl"), so I think we can definitely say
that it's a recently introduced regression in loop due to the killable
lock changes.

-- 
Jens Axboe