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Message-ID: <20241002132351.soglueukw7ttgxhf@quack3>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 15:23:51 +0200
From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@...driver.com>
Cc: amir73il@...il.com, jack@...e.cz, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, phillip@...ashfs.org.uk,
	squashfs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	syzbot+c679f13773f295d2da53@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
	syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] inotify: Fix possible deadlock in
 fsnotify_destroy_mark

On Fri 27-09-24 22:36:42, Lizhi Xu wrote:
> [Syzbot reported]
> WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> 6.11.0-rc4-syzkaller-00019-gb311c1b497e5 #0 Not tainted
> ------------------------------------------------------
> kswapd0/78 is trying to acquire lock:
> ffff88801b8d8930 (&group->mark_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: fsnotify_group_lock include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h:270 [inline]
> ffff88801b8d8930 (&group->mark_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: fsnotify_destroy_mark+0x38/0x3c0 fs/notify/mark.c:578
> 
> but task is already holding lock:
> ffffffff8ea2fd60 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:6841 [inline]
> ffffffff8ea2fd60 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: kswapd+0xbb4/0x35a0 mm/vmscan.c:7223
> 
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
> 
> 
> the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
> 
> -> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}:
>        lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5759
>        __fs_reclaim_acquire mm/page_alloc.c:3818 [inline]
>        fs_reclaim_acquire+0x88/0x140 mm/page_alloc.c:3832
>        might_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:334 [inline]
>        slab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:3939 [inline]
>        slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4017 [inline]
>        kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x3d/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4044
>        inotify_new_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:599 [inline]
>        inotify_update_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:647 [inline]
>        __do_sys_inotify_add_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:786 [inline]
>        __se_sys_inotify_add_watch+0x72e/0x1070 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:729
>        do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
>        do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
>        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
> 
> -> #0 (&group->mark_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:
>        check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3133 [inline]
>        check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3252 [inline]
>        validate_chain+0x18e0/0x5900 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3868
>        __lock_acquire+0x137a/0x2040 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5142
>        lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5759
>        __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:608 [inline]
>        __mutex_lock+0x136/0xd70 kernel/locking/mutex.c:752
>        fsnotify_group_lock include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h:270 [inline]
>        fsnotify_destroy_mark+0x38/0x3c0 fs/notify/mark.c:578
>        fsnotify_destroy_marks+0x14a/0x660 fs/notify/mark.c:934
>        fsnotify_inoderemove include/linux/fsnotify.h:264 [inline]
>        dentry_unlink_inode+0x2e0/0x430 fs/dcache.c:403
>        __dentry_kill+0x20d/0x630 fs/dcache.c:610
>        shrink_kill+0xa9/0x2c0 fs/dcache.c:1055
>        shrink_dentry_list+0x2c0/0x5b0 fs/dcache.c:1082
>        prune_dcache_sb+0x10f/0x180 fs/dcache.c:1163
>        super_cache_scan+0x34f/0x4b0 fs/super.c:221
>        do_shrink_slab+0x701/0x1160 mm/shrinker.c:435
>        shrink_slab+0x1093/0x14d0 mm/shrinker.c:662
>        shrink_one+0x43b/0x850 mm/vmscan.c:4815
>        shrink_many mm/vmscan.c:4876 [inline]
>        lru_gen_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:4954 [inline]
>        shrink_node+0x3799/0x3de0 mm/vmscan.c:5934
>        kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:6762 [inline]
>        balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:6954 [inline]
>        kswapd+0x1bcd/0x35a0 mm/vmscan.c:7223
>        kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
>        ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
>        ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
> 
> other info that might help us debug this:
> 
>  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
> 
>        CPU0                    CPU1
>        ----                    ----
>   lock(fs_reclaim);
>                                lock(&group->mark_mutex);
>                                lock(fs_reclaim);
>   lock(&group->mark_mutex);
> 
>  *** DEADLOCK ***
> 
> [Analysis]
> The inotify_new_watch() call passes through GFP_KERNEL, use memalloc_nofs_save/
> memalloc_nofs_restore to make sure we don't end up with the fs reclaim dependency.
> 
> That any notification group needs to use NOFS allocations to be safe
> against this race so we can just remove FSNOTIFY_GROUP_NOFS and
> unconditionally do memalloc_nofs_save() in fsnotify_group_lock().
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+c679f13773f295d2da53@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c679f13773f295d2da53
> Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@...driver.com>

Thanks. I've added the patch to my tree.

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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