linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] [mm?] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in mas

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Message-ID: <ZMLOz7rkW6hY5aW/@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 27 Jul 2023 21:08:47 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc:     Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        syzbot <syzbot+8645fe63c4d22c8d27b8@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [mm?] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in mas_walk (2)

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 09:20:33PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> One kinda straightforward option would be to pass the vmf (or NULL if
> it's not in fault context) to anon_vma_prepare(), teach it to bail if
> it runs under the mm lock, and propagate a VM_FAULT_RETRY all the way
> up? It can already fail due to OOM, so the bailout paths exist, though
> you'd have to work a bit to plumb the right error code up.
> 
> And if you're feeling adventurous, you could try to build a way to
> opportunistically upgrade from vma lock to mmap lock, to avoid having
> to bail out all the way back up and then dive back in when that
> happens. Something that does mmap_read_trylock(); on failure, bail out
> with VM_FAULT_RETRY; on success, drop the VMA lock and change
> vmf->flags to note the changed locking context.

I think that's all a little more adventurous than I'd be comfortable
with right now ;-)  I just sent the fix patch that syzbot tested to
Andrew for integration.