Re: possible deadlock in send_sigurg

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/02, syzbot wrote:
>
>                       lock_acquire+0x1f2/0x8f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4923
>                       __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:142 [inline]
>                       _raw_spin_lock+0x2a/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151
>                       spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:353 [inline]
>                       proc_pid_make_inode+0x1f9/0x3c0 fs/proc/base.c:1880

Yes, spin_lock(wait_pidfd.lock) is not safe...

Eric, at first glance the fix is simple.

Oleg.


diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 74f948a6b621..9ec8c114aa60 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1839,9 +1839,9 @@ void proc_pid_evict_inode(struct proc_inode *ei)
 	struct pid *pid = ei->pid;
 
 	if (S_ISDIR(ei->vfs_inode.i_mode)) {
-		spin_lock(&pid->wait_pidfd.lock);
+		spin_lock_irq(&pid->wait_pidfd.lock);
 		hlist_del_init_rcu(&ei->sibling_inodes);
-		spin_unlock(&pid->wait_pidfd.lock);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&pid->wait_pidfd.lock);
 	}
 
 	put_pid(pid);
@@ -1877,9 +1877,9 @@ struct inode *proc_pid_make_inode(struct super_block * sb,
 	/* Let the pid remember us for quick removal */
 	ei->pid = pid;
 	if (S_ISDIR(mode)) {
-		spin_lock(&pid->wait_pidfd.lock);
+		spin_lock_irq(&pid->wait_pidfd.lock);
 		hlist_add_head_rcu(&ei->sibling_inodes, &pid->inodes);
-		spin_unlock(&pid->wait_pidfd.lock);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&pid->wait_pidfd.lock);
 	}
 
 	task_dump_owner(task, 0, &inode->i_uid, &inode->i_gid);
diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
index 1e730ea1dcd6..6b7ee76e1b36 100644
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ void proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache(struct hlist_head *inodes, spinlock_t *lock
 		if (!node)
 			break;
 		ei = hlist_entry(node, struct proc_inode, sibling_inodes);
-		spin_lock(lock);
+		spin_lock_irq(lock);
 		hlist_del_init_rcu(&ei->sibling_inodes);
-		spin_unlock(lock);
+		spin_unlock_irq(lock);
 
 		inode = &ei->vfs_inode;
 		sb = inode->i_sb;