Re: [syzbot] [mm?] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in mas_walk (2)

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 09:20:33PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> One kinda straightforward option would be to pass the vmf (or NULL if
> it's not in fault context) to anon_vma_prepare(), teach it to bail if
> it runs under the mm lock, and propagate a VM_FAULT_RETRY all the way
> up? It can already fail due to OOM, so the bailout paths exist, though
> you'd have to work a bit to plumb the right error code up.
> 
> And if you're feeling adventurous, you could try to build a way to
> opportunistically upgrade from vma lock to mmap lock, to avoid having
> to bail out all the way back up and then dive back in when that
> happens. Something that does mmap_read_trylock(); on failure, bail out
> with VM_FAULT_RETRY; on success, drop the VMA lock and change
> vmf->flags to note the changed locking context.

I think that's all a little more adventurous than I'd be comfortable
with right now ;-)  I just sent the fix patch that syzbot tested to
Andrew for integration.