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authorLizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@windriver.com>2024-09-27 17:36:42 +0300
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2024-10-02 16:14:29 +0300
commitcad3f4a22cfa4081cc2d465d1118cf31708fd82b (patch)
tree9364a917c442e7a240cf00f783e581eb55ce780f /include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
parent35ceae44742e1101f9d20adadbbbd92c05d7d659 (diff)
downloadlinux-cad3f4a22cfa4081cc2d465d1118cf31708fd82b.tar.xz
inotify: Fix possible deadlock in fsnotify_destroy_mark
[Syzbot reported] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 6.11.0-rc4-syzkaller-00019-gb311c1b497e5 #0 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ kswapd0/78 is trying to acquire lock: ffff88801b8d8930 (&group->mark_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: fsnotify_group_lock include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h:270 [inline] ffff88801b8d8930 (&group->mark_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: fsnotify_destroy_mark+0x38/0x3c0 fs/notify/mark.c:578 but task is already holding lock: ffffffff8ea2fd60 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:6841 [inline] ffffffff8ea2fd60 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: kswapd+0xbb4/0x35a0 mm/vmscan.c:7223 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}: ... kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x3d/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4044 inotify_new_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:599 [inline] inotify_update_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:647 [inline] __do_sys_inotify_add_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:786 [inline] __se_sys_inotify_add_watch+0x72e/0x1070 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:729 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f -> #0 (&group->mark_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}: ... __mutex_lock+0x136/0xd70 kernel/locking/mutex.c:752 fsnotify_group_lock include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h:270 [inline] fsnotify_destroy_mark+0x38/0x3c0 fs/notify/mark.c:578 fsnotify_destroy_marks+0x14a/0x660 fs/notify/mark.c:934 fsnotify_inoderemove include/linux/fsnotify.h:264 [inline] dentry_unlink_inode+0x2e0/0x430 fs/dcache.c:403 __dentry_kill+0x20d/0x630 fs/dcache.c:610 shrink_kill+0xa9/0x2c0 fs/dcache.c:1055 shrink_dentry_list+0x2c0/0x5b0 fs/dcache.c:1082 prune_dcache_sb+0x10f/0x180 fs/dcache.c:1163 super_cache_scan+0x34f/0x4b0 fs/super.c:221 do_shrink_slab+0x701/0x1160 mm/shrinker.c:435 shrink_slab+0x1093/0x14d0 mm/shrinker.c:662 shrink_one+0x43b/0x850 mm/vmscan.c:4815 shrink_many mm/vmscan.c:4876 [inline] lru_gen_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:4954 [inline] shrink_node+0x3799/0x3de0 mm/vmscan.c:5934 kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:6762 [inline] balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:6954 [inline] kswapd+0x1bcd/0x35a0 mm/vmscan.c:7223 [Analysis] The problem is that inotify_new_watch() is using GFP_KERNEL to allocate new watches under group->mark_mutex, however if dentry reclaim races with unlinking of an inode, it can end up dropping the last dentry reference for an unlinked inode resulting in removal of fsnotify mark from reclaim context which wants to acquire group->mark_mutex as well. This scenario shows that all notification groups are in principle prone to this kind of a deadlock (previously, we considered only fanotify and dnotify to be problematic for other reasons) so make sure all allocations under group->mark_mutex happen with GFP_NOFS. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+c679f13773f295d2da53@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c679f13773f295d2da53 Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240927143642.2369508-1-lizhi.xu@windriver.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h10
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index 8be029bc50b1..3ecf7768e577 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -217,7 +217,6 @@ struct fsnotify_group {
#define FSNOTIFY_GROUP_USER 0x01 /* user allocated group */
#define FSNOTIFY_GROUP_DUPS 0x02 /* allow multiple marks per object */
-#define FSNOTIFY_GROUP_NOFS 0x04 /* group lock is not direct reclaim safe */
int flags;
unsigned int owner_flags; /* stored flags of mark_mutex owner */
@@ -268,22 +267,19 @@ struct fsnotify_group {
static inline void fsnotify_group_lock(struct fsnotify_group *group)
{
mutex_lock(&group->mark_mutex);
- if (group->flags & FSNOTIFY_GROUP_NOFS)
- group->owner_flags = memalloc_nofs_save();
+ group->owner_flags = memalloc_nofs_save();
}
static inline void fsnotify_group_unlock(struct fsnotify_group *group)
{
- if (group->flags & FSNOTIFY_GROUP_NOFS)
- memalloc_nofs_restore(group->owner_flags);
+ memalloc_nofs_restore(group->owner_flags);
mutex_unlock(&group->mark_mutex);
}
static inline void fsnotify_group_assert_locked(struct fsnotify_group *group)
{
WARN_ON_ONCE(!mutex_is_locked(&group->mark_mutex));
- if (group->flags & FSNOTIFY_GROUP_NOFS)
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS));
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS));
}
/* When calling fsnotify tell it if the data is a path or inode */