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From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: syzbot <syzbot+06fa1063cca8163ea541@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-serial <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: check for atomic context in con_write()
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:34:44 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65e403d5-552c-4c29-93ab-cb9913003be5@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240121034817.2280-1-hdanton@sina.com>

On 2024/01/21 12:48, Hillf Danton wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 19:34:02 +0900 Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
>> syzbot is reporting sleep in atomic context, for gsmld_write() is calling
>> con_write() with spinlock held and IRQs disabled.
> 
> ...
> 
>> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
>> @@ -2856,7 +2856,7 @@ static int do_con_write(struct tty_struct *tty, const u8 *buf, int count)
>>  	struct vt_notifier_param param;
>>  	bool rescan;
>>  
>> -	if (in_interrupt())
>> +	if (in_interrupt() || irqs_disabled())
>>  		return count;
>>  
>>  	console_lock();
> 
> Given console_lock(), no sense could be made by calling do_con_write()
> with spin lock held at the first place, regardless irq.

The question was how to detect it. Since in_atomic() is not a reliable method for
detecting that a spin lock is held, this patch instead chose irqs_disabled(), for
gsmld_write() is using spin_lock_irqsave(&gsm->tx_lock, flags).


  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-21 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-18  9:51 [syzbot] [dri?] BUG: scheduling while atomic in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done syzbot
2024-01-18 14:18 ` Tetsuo Handa
2024-01-20 10:34   ` [PATCH] tty: vt: check for atomic context in con_write() Tetsuo Handa
2024-01-21  3:48     ` Hillf Danton
2024-01-21 11:34       ` Tetsuo Handa [this message]
2024-01-22  6:48     ` Jiri Slaby
2024-01-22 14:08       ` Tetsuo Handa
2024-01-24 10:06         ` [PATCH] tty: n_gsm: restrict tty devices to attach Tetsuo Handa
2024-01-24 13:14           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-02-03 13:45             ` Tetsuo Handa
2024-02-06 14:28               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-20 11:17 ` [syzbot] [dri?] BUG: scheduling while atomic in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done Tetsuo Handa

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