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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: syzbot <syzbot+5b1df0420c523b45a953@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	bcrl <bcrl@kvack.org>, linux-aio <linux-aio@kvack.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: possible deadlock in aio_poll
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:14:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfpeguWqJgU8EfjvOtsBYRbbY2J7Ck2oNUcLNS8my9g2eNZfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180910165317.GA3237@infradead.org>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 12:41:05AM -0700, syzbot wrote:
>> =====================================================
>> WARNING: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected
>> 4.19.0-rc2+ #229 Not tainted
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> syz-executor2/9399 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] is trying to acquire:
>> 00000000126506e0 (&ctx->fd_wqh){+.+.}, at: spin_lock
>> include/linux/spinlock.h:329 [inline]
>> 00000000126506e0 (&ctx->fd_wqh){+.+.}, at: aio_poll+0x760/0x1420
>> fs/aio.c:1747
>>
>> and this task is already holding:
>> 000000002bed6bf6 (&(&ctx->ctx_lock)->rlock){..-.}, at: spin_lock_irq
>> include/linux/spinlock.h:354 [inline]
>> 000000002bed6bf6 (&(&ctx->ctx_lock)->rlock){..-.}, at: aio_poll+0x738/0x1420
>> fs/aio.c:1746
>> which would create a new lock dependency:
>>  (&(&ctx->ctx_lock)->rlock){..-.} -> (&ctx->fd_wqh){+.+.}
>
> ctx->fd_wqh seems to only exist in userfaultfd, which indeed seems
> to do strange open coded waitqueue locking, and seems to fail to disable
> irqs.  Something like this should fix it:

Why do pollable waitqueues need to disable interrupts generally?

I don't see anything fundamental in the poll interface to force this
requirement on users of that interface.

Thanks,
Miklos

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-10 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-10  7:41 possible deadlock in aio_poll syzbot
2018-09-10 16:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-10 18:14   ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2018-09-11  6:33     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-11  7:20       ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-10-17 23:55   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-27  6:16 ` syzbot

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