From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
syzbot <syzbot+bfdded10ab7dcd7507ae@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: possible deadlock in start_this_handle (2)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:12:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCZ+2ZStwTbApo5E@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b90c488-a6b9-2565-bd3a-e4f8bf8404e9@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
On Fri 12-02-21 21:58:15, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2021/02/12 21:30, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Fri 12-02-21 12:22:07, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 08:18:11PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> >>> On 2021/02/12 1:41, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>>> But I suspect we have drifted away from the original issue. I thought
> >>>> that a simple check would help us narrow down this particular case and
> >>>> somebody messing up from the IRQ context didn't sound like a completely
> >>>> off.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> From my experience at https://lkml.kernel.org/r/201409192053.IHJ35462.JLOMOSOFFVtQFH@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp ,
> >>> I think we can replace direct PF_* manipulation with macros which do not receive "struct task_struct *" argument.
> >>> Since TASK_PFA_TEST()/TASK_PFA_SET()/TASK_PFA_CLEAR() are for manipulating PFA_* flags on a remote thread, we can
> >>> define similar ones for manipulating PF_* flags on current thread. Then, auditing dangerous users becomes easier.
> >>
> >> No, nobody is manipulating another task's GFP flags.
> >
> > Agreed. And nobody should be manipulating PF flags on remote tasks
> > either.
> >
>
> No. You are misunderstanding. The bug report above is an example of manipulating PF flags on remote tasks.
Could you be more specific? I do not remember there was any theory that
somebody is manipulating flags on a remote task. A very vague theory was
that an interrupt context might be doing that on the _current_ context
but even that is not based on any real evidence. It is a pure
speculation.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-12 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2021-02-11 10:49 ` possible deadlock in start_this_handle (2) Jan Kara
2021-02-11 10:55 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-11 11:22 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2021-02-11 11:28 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2021-02-11 12:10 ` Jan Kara
2021-02-11 12:34 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-11 12:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-11 13:07 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-11 13:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-11 14:20 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-11 14:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-11 16:41 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-12 11:18 ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-02-12 12:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-12 12:30 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-12 12:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-02-12 13:12 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2021-02-12 13:34 ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-02-12 15:43 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-13 10:58 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2021-02-11 13:18 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2021-02-11 11:46 ` Jan Kara
2021-02-13 14:26 ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-02-15 12:45 ` Jan Kara
2021-02-15 14:06 ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-02-15 14:29 ` Jan Kara
2021-02-19 10:15 ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-02-19 17:22 ` harshad shirwadkar
2021-03-20 10:02 ` Tetsuo Handa
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