Hello, On Mon 12-10-15 11:18:48, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > Hello, > > The following program leads to hang in D state in: <snip> This is the minimal reproducer: int fd; off_t off = 0; fd = open("file", O_RDWR | O_TRUNC | O_SYNC | O_CREAT, 0644); ftruncate(fd, 2); lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END); sendfile(fd, fd, &off, 0xfffffff); And although it is a "nice" way to DOS a kernel, it isn't a bug as such. Effectively you ask kernel to copy some 256MB of data in 2-byte chunks, fsyncing after each chunk. That takes a *lot* of time to do... In my test kvm the write speed is some whooping 50 bytes/s so after roughly 62 days the syscall *will* complete. I guess some fatal_signal_pending() check somewhere would be good so that the process can be killed. We do have such check in generic_perform_write() and that would almost work. The trouble is that we always first write those two bytes, only then perform signal check and then we return 2 bytes written. Thus the information about signal gets continuously lost. I'll send a patch which fixes the problem for me and makes the test program killable. Honza > /proc/self/stack shows: > > [<ffffffff8122fa85>] jbd2_log_wait_commit+0x95/0x110 > fs/jbd2/journal.c:706 (discriminator 2) > [<ffffffff812324e2>] jbd2_complete_transaction+0x52/0x90 fs/jbd2/journal.c:744 > [<ffffffff811dc2c4>] ext4_sync_file+0x254/0x2e0 fs/ext4/fsync.c:141 > [<ffffffff811932e6>] vfs_fsync_range+0x36/0xa0 fs/sync.c:190 > [< inline >] generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:2442 > [<ffffffff811db6ff>] ext4_file_write_iter+0x13f/0x340 fs/ext4/file.c:177 > [<ffffffff81165331>] vfs_iter_write+0x61/0x90 fs/read_write.c:364 > [<ffffffff8119150d>] iter_file_splice_write+0x1dd/0x370 fs/splice.c:1012 > [< inline >] do_splice_from fs/splice.c:1116 > [<ffffffff811906f1>] direct_splice_actor+0x31/0x40 fs/splice.c:1282 > [<ffffffff81190e10>] splice_direct_to_actor+0x90/0x1f0 fs/splice.c:1235 > [<ffffffff81190fe7>] do_splice_direct+0x77/0xa0 fs/splice.c:1325 > [<ffffffff811664b8>] do_sendfile+0x198/0x380 fs/read_write.c:1227 > [< inline >] SYSC_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1282 > [<ffffffff81166f5a>] SyS_sendfile64+0x4a/0x90 fs/read_write.c:1274 > [<ffffffff81859a97>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6a > arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:185 > > On commit dd36d7393d6310b0c1adefb22fba79c3cf8a577c > (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git) > > Found with syzkaller fuzzer. > -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html