Re: possible deadlock in open_rio

[Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 06.08.2019, 15:13 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > On Thu, 1 Aug 2019, syzbot wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > syzbot found the following crash on:
> > > 
> > > HEAD commit:    7f7867ff usb-fuzzer: main usb gadget fuzzer driver
> > > git tree:       https://github.com/google/kasan.git usb-fuzzer
> > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=136b6aec600000
> > > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=792eb47789f57810
> > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7bbcbe9c9ff0cd49592a
> > > compiler:       gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental)
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this crash yet.
> > > 
> > > IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+7bbcbe9c9ff0cd49592a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > > 
> > > ======================================================
> > > WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> > > 5.3.0-rc2+ #23 Not tainted
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Andrey:
> > 
> > This should be completely reproducible, since it's a simple ABBA
> > locking violation.  Maybe just introducing a time delay (to avoid races
> > and give the open() call time to run) between the gadget creation and
> > gadget removal would be enough to do it.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> technically yes. However in practical terms the straight revert I sent
> out yesterday should fix it.

I didn't see the revert, and it doesn't appear to have reached the 
mailing list archive.  Can you post it again?

Alan Stern

PS: syzbot reported a similar lock inversion problem (involving two
mutexes rather than just one) in drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c.  
Probably the two drivers need similar fixes.