Re: possible deadlock in __do_page_fault

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:52 PM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:32 AM Tetsuo Handa
> <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 2019/01/22 19:12, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:02 AM Tetsuo Handa
> > > <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 2018/09/22 8:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >>> On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 19:33:15 -0400 Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 5:12 PM Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> +Joel Fernandes
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:11 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Thanks.  Let's cc the ashmem folks.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> This should be fixed by https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10572477/
> > >>>>
> > >>>> It has Neil Brown's Reviewed-by but looks like didn't yet appear in
> > >>>> anyone's tree, could Greg take this patch?
> > >>>
> > >>> All is well.  That went into mainline yesterday, with a cc:stable.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> This problem was not fixed at all.
> > >
> > > There are at least 2 other open deadlocks involving ashmem:
> >
> > Yes, they involve ashmem_shrink_scan() => {shmem|vfs}_fallocate() sequence.
> > This approach tries to eliminate this sequence.
> >
> > >
> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=148c2885d71194f18d28
> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4b8b031b89e6b96c4b2e
> > >
> > > Does this fix any of these too?
> >
> > I need checks from ashmem folks whether this approach is possible/correct.
> > But you can ask syzbot to test this patch before ashmem folks respond.
>
> Right. Let's do this.
>
> As with any kernel changes only you really know how to apply it, git
> tree/base commit info is missing, so let's do guessing and
> finger-crossing as usual:
>
> #syz fix: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> master

This of course should be:

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
master