linux-kernel - Re: possible deadlock in __do_page

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Message-ID: <c56d4d0b-8ecc-059d-69cb-4f3e91f9410c@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:32:34 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        syzbot+a76129f18c89f3e2ddd4@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...roid.com>,
        Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: possible deadlock in __do_page_fault

On 2019/01/22 19:12, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:02 AM Tetsuo Handa
> <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
>>
>> On 2018/09/22 8:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 19:33:15 -0400 Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 5:12 PM Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> +Joel Fernandes
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:11 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.  Let's cc the ashmem folks.
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This should be fixed by https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10572477/
>>>>
>>>> It has Neil Brown's Reviewed-by but looks like didn't yet appear in
>>>> anyone's tree, could Greg take this patch?
>>>
>>> All is well.  That went into mainline yesterday, with a cc:stable.
>>>
>>
>> This problem was not fixed at all.
> 
> There are at least 2 other open deadlocks involving ashmem:

Yes, they involve ashmem_shrink_scan() => {shmem|vfs}_fallocate() sequence.
This approach tries to eliminate this sequence.

> 
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=148c2885d71194f18d28
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4b8b031b89e6b96c4b2e
> 
> Does this fix any of these too?

I need checks from ashmem folks whether this approach is possible/correct.
But you can ask syzbot to test this patch before ashmem folks respond.