linux-kernel - Re: possible deadlock in free_ioctx

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Date:   Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:50:43 +0200
From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+d86c4426a01f60feddc7@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        bcrl <bcrl@...ck.org>, linux-aio <linux-aio@...ck.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: possible deadlock in free_ioctx_users

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:28 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 8:41 PM, syzbot
>> <syzbot+d86c4426a01f60feddc7@...kaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> syzbot found the following crash on:
>>>
>>> HEAD commit:    f8f65382c98a Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org..
>>> git tree:       upstream
>>> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=113260ae400000
>>> kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=8f59875069d721b6
>>> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d86c4426a01f60feddc7
>>> compiler:       gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180413 (experimental)
>>> syz repro:      https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=120baa9e400000
>>> C reproducer:   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=13979cbe400000
>>>
>>> IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
>>> Reported-by: syzbot+d86c4426a01f60feddc7@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>>>
>>> random: sshd: uninitialized urandom read (32 bytes read)
>>> random: sshd: uninitialized urandom read (32 bytes read)
>>> random: sshd: uninitialized urandom read (32 bytes read)
>>>
>>> ========================================================
>>> WARNING: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected
>>> 4.19.0-rc2+ #229 Not tainted
>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>> swapper/0/0 just changed the state of lock:
>>> 00000000c02bddef (&(&ctx->ctx_lock)->rlock){..-.}, at: spin_lock_irq
>>> include/linux/spinlock.h:354 [inline]
>>> 00000000c02bddef (&(&ctx->ctx_lock)->rlock){..-.}, at:
>>> free_ioctx_users+0xbc/0x710 fs/aio.c:603
>>> but this lock took another, SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock in the past:
>>>  (&fiq->waitq){+.+.}
>>>
>>>
>>> and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them.
>>>
>>>
>>> other info that might help us debug this:
>>>  Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario:
>>>
>>>        CPU0                    CPU1
>>>        ----                    ----
>>>   lock(&fiq->waitq);
>>>                                local_irq_disable();
>>>                                lock(&(&ctx->ctx_lock)->rlock);
>>>                                lock(&fiq->waitq);
>>>   <Interrupt>
>>>     lock(&(&ctx->ctx_lock)->rlock);
>>
>> Fuse device doesn't support AIO ops.  So false positive, AFAICS.
>
> Hi Miklos,
>
> We still need to annotate this. How?

Good question.

Isn't lockdep assuming too much here?  It hasn't shown that that
ctx_lock instance was actually called from interrupt context, has it?

Thanks,
Miklos