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possible deadlock in shmem_fallocate (3)

DISCUSSION Hillf Danton 1 participant 1 message Sep 10, 2019 Memory management

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syzbot found the following crash on Mon, 09 Sep 2019 20:38:05 -0700

HEAD commit:    6d028043 Add linux-next specific files for 20190830
git tree:       linux-next
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=12359ec6600000
kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=82a6bec43ab0cb69
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5d04068d02b9da8a0947
compiler:       gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental)

Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this crash yet.

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Reported-by [email protected]

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WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 5.3.0-rc6-next-20190830 #75 Not tainted
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kswapd0/1770 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff8880a0b9b780 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:789 [inline]
ffff8880a0b9b780 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.}, at:
shmem_fallocate+0x15a/0xc60 mm/shmem.c:2728

but task is already holding lock:
ffffffff89042f80 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x0/0x30 mm/page_alloc.c:4889

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}:

        __fs_reclaim_acquire mm/page_alloc.c:4075 [inline]
        fs_reclaim_acquire.part.0+0x24/0x30 mm/page_alloc.c:4086
        fs_reclaim_acquire mm/page_alloc.c:4662 [inline]
        prepare_alloc_pages mm/page_alloc.c:4659 [inline]
        __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x52f/0x900 mm/page_alloc.c:4711
        alloc_pages_vma+0x1bc/0x3f0 mm/mempolicy.c:2114
        shmem_alloc_page+0xbd/0x180 mm/shmem.c:1496
        shmem_alloc_and_acct_page+0x165/0x990 mm/shmem.c:1521
        shmem_getpage_gfp+0x598/0x2680 mm/shmem.c:1835
        shmem_getpage mm/shmem.c:152 [inline]
        shmem_write_begin+0x105/0x1e0 mm/shmem.c:2480
        generic_perform_write+0x23b/0x540 mm/filemap.c:3304
        __generic_file_write_iter+0x25e/0x630 mm/filemap.c:3433
        generic_file_write_iter+0x420/0x690 mm/filemap.c:3465
        call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1890 [inline]
        new_sync_write+0x4d3/0x770 fs/read_write.c:483
        __vfs_write+0xe1/0x110 fs/read_write.c:496
        vfs_write+0x268/0x5d0 fs/read_write.c:558
        ksys_write+0x14f/0x290 fs/read_write.c:611
        __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:623 [inline]
        __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:620 [inline]
        __x64_sys_write+0x73/0xb0 fs/read_write.c:620
        do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x760 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

-> #0 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.}:

        check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2476 [inline]
        check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2581 [inline]
        validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2971 [inline]
        __lock_acquire+0x2596/0x4a00 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3955
        lock_acquire+0x190/0x410 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4487
        down_write+0x93/0x150 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1534
        inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:789 [inline]
        shmem_fallocate+0x15a/0xc60 mm/shmem.c:2728
        ashmem_shrink_scan drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c:462 [inline]
        ashmem_shrink_scan+0x370/0x510 drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c:437
        do_shrink_slab+0x40f/0xa30 mm/vmscan.c:560
        shrink_slab mm/vmscan.c:721 [inline]
        shrink_slab+0x19a/0x680 mm/vmscan.c:694
        shrink_node+0x223/0x12e0 mm/vmscan.c:2807
        kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:3549 [inline]
        balance_pgdat+0x57c/0xea0 mm/vmscan.c:3707
        kswapd+0x5c3/0xf30 mm/vmscan.c:3958
        kthread+0x361/0x430 kernel/kthread.c:255
        ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352

other info that might help us debug this:

  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
   lock(fs_reclaim);
                                lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13);
                                lock(fs_reclaim);

lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13);

*** DEADLOCK ***

2 locks held by kswapd0/1770:
#0: ffffffff89042f80 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x0/0x30
mm/page_alloc.c:4889
#1: ffffffff8901ffe8 (shrinker_rwsem){++++}, at: shrink_slab
mm/vmscan.c:711 [inline]
#1: ffffffff8901ffe8 (shrinker_rwsem){++++}, at: shrink_slab+0xe6/0x680
mm/vmscan.c:694

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 1770 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 5.3.0-rc6-next-20190830 #75
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS  
Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
  dump_stack+0x172/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:113
  print_circular_bug.isra.0.cold+0x163/0x172 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1685
  check_noncircular+0x32e/0x3e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1809
  check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2476 [inline]
  check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2581 [inline]
  validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2971 [inline]
  __lock_acquire+0x2596/0x4a00 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3955
  lock_acquire+0x190/0x410 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4487
  down_write+0x93/0x150 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1534
  inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:789 [inline]
  shmem_fallocate+0x15a/0xc60 mm/shmem.c:2728
  ashmem_shrink_scan drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c:462 [inline]
  ashmem_shrink_scan+0x370/0x510 drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c:437
  do_shrink_slab+0x40f/0xa30 mm/vmscan.c:560
Quoted 8 lines
  shrink_slab mm/vmscan.c:721 [inline]
  shrink_slab+0x19a/0x680 mm/vmscan.c:694
  shrink_node+0x223/0x12e0 mm/vmscan.c:2807
  kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:3549 [inline]
  balance_pgdat+0x57c/0xea0 mm/vmscan.c:3707
  kswapd+0x5c3/0xf30 mm/vmscan.c:3958
  kthread+0x361/0x430 kernel/kthread.c:255
  ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352

It burns more than pure cpu cycles to check anything against kswapd in terms of __GFP_FS, so fix 93781325da6e and d92a8cfcb37e.

zz/vmscan.c renamed from jj/vmscan.c +0 -4
@@ -3593,7 +3593,6 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgda
 
 	set_task_reclaim_state(current, &sc.reclaim_state);
 	psi_memstall_enter(&pflags);
-	__fs_reclaim_acquire();
 
 	count_vm_event(PAGEOUTRUN);
 
@@ -3718,9 +3717,7 @@ restart:
 			wake_up_all(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
 
 		/* Check if kswapd should be suspending */
-		__fs_reclaim_release();
 		ret = try_to_freeze();
-		__fs_reclaim_acquire();
 		if (ret || kthread_should_stop())
 			break;
 
@@ -3770,7 +3767,6 @@ out:
 	}
 
 	snapshot_refaults(NULL, pgdat);
-	__fs_reclaim_release();
 	psi_memstall_leave(&pflags);
 	set_task_reclaim_state(current, NULL);
 

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