From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7677DC4CECE for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565DC20854 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2406062AbfJQGKG (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Oct 2019 02:10:06 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:60340 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2404944AbfJQGKG (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Oct 2019 02:10:06 -0400 Received: from [213.220.153.21] (helo=wittgenstein) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iKyyi-0000zS-Pv; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:09:40 +0000 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:09:39 +0200 From: Christian Brauner To: Michael Ellerman Cc: cyphar@cyphar.com, mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, jolsa@redhat.com, namhyung@kernel.org, christian@brauner.io, keescook@chromium.org, linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] usercopy: Avoid soft lockups in test_check_nonzero_user() Message-ID: <20191017060938.p4tmr5ruv6frgse4@wittgenstein> References: <20191011022447.24249-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au> <20191016122732.13467-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au> <20191016130319.vcc2mqac3ta5jjat@wittgenstein> <871rvctkof.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871rvctkof.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 09:00:48AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Christian Brauner writes: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:27:32PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > >> On a machine with a 64K PAGE_SIZE, the nested for loops in > >> test_check_nonzero_user() can lead to soft lockups, eg: > >> > >> watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 22s! [modprobe:611] > >> Modules linked in: test_user_copy(+) vmx_crypto gf128mul crc32c_vpmsum virtio_balloon ip_tables x_tables autofs4 > >> CPU: 4 PID: 611 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G L 5.4.0-rc1-gcc-8.2.0-00001-gf5a1a536fa14-dirty #1151 > >> ... > >> NIP __might_sleep+0x20/0xc0 > >> LR __might_fault+0x40/0x60 > >> Call Trace: > >> check_zeroed_user+0x12c/0x200 > >> test_user_copy_init+0x67c/0x1210 [test_user_copy] > >> do_one_initcall+0x60/0x340 > >> do_init_module+0x7c/0x2f0 > >> load_module+0x2d94/0x30e0 > >> __do_sys_finit_module+0xc8/0x150 > >> system_call+0x5c/0x68 > >> > >> Even with a 4K PAGE_SIZE the test takes multiple seconds. Instead > >> tweak it to only scan a 1024 byte region, but make it cross the > >> page boundary. > >> > >> Fixes: f5a1a536fa14 ("lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper") > >> Suggested-by: Aleksa Sarai > >> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman > > > > With Aleksa's Reviewed-by I've picked this up: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux.git/log/?h=copy_struct_from_user > > Thanks. Are you planning to send that to Linus for v5.4 or v5.5 ? This looks like a pretty straight bugfix to me since it's clearly causing an issue for you on power so v5.4-rc4 is what I'd aim for. I just want it to be in linux-next until tomorrow. Christian