Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov , Jan Kara , Al Viro Subject: [PATCH 3.10 33/80] vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:45:27 -0800 Message-Id: <20160301234350.714905606@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160301234349.667990420@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160301234349.667990420@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jan Kara commit c2489e07c0a71a56fb2c84bc0ee66cddfca7d068 upstream. The following test program from Dmitry can cause softlockups or RCU stalls as it copies 1GB from tmpfs into eventfd and we don't have any scheduling point at that path in sendfile(2) implementation: int r1 = eventfd(0, 0); int r2 = memfd_create("", 0); unsigned long n = 1<<30; fallocate(r2, 0, 0, n); sendfile(r1, r2, 0, n); Add cond_resched() into __splice_from_pipe() to fix the problem. CC: Dmitry Vyukov Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/splice.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -949,6 +949,7 @@ ssize_t __splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_i splice_from_pipe_begin(sd); do { + cond_resched(); ret = splice_from_pipe_next(pipe, sd); if (ret > 0) ret = splice_from_pipe_feed(pipe, sd, actor);