linux-kernel - Re: possible deadlock in __do_page

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:54:28 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
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>,
        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 Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:52 PM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:32 AM Tetsuo Handa
> <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Right. Let's do this.
>
> As with any kernel changes only you really know how to apply it, git
> tree/base commit info is missing, so let's do guessing and
> finger-crossing as usual:
>
> #syz fix: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> master

This of course should be:

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
master