linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fuse: fix possible deadlock if rings are never initialized

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Message-ID: <20250319-geregelt-hohen-c59e1649473a@brauner>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:00:25 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Luis Henriques <luis@...lia.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-dev@...lia.com,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	Bernd Schubert <bernd@...ernd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fuse: fix possible deadlock if rings are never initialized

On Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:12:18 +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> When mounting a user-space filesystem using io_uring, the initialization
> of the rings is done separately in the server side.  If for some reason
> (e.g. a server bug) this step is not performed it will be impossible to
> unmount the filesystem if there are already requests waiting.
> 
> This issue is easily reproduced with the libfuse passthrough_ll example,
> if the queue depth is set to '0' and a request is queued before trying to
> unmount the filesystem.  When trying to force the unmount, fuse_abort_conn()
> will try to wake up all tasks waiting in fc->blocked_waitq, but because the
> rings were never initialized, fuse_uring_ready() will never return 'true'.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] fuse: fix possible deadlock if rings are never initialized
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/d55011469b41