syzbot is reporting sleep in atomic context in SysV filesystem [1], for sb_bread() is called with rw_spinlock held. A "write_lock(&pointers_lock) => read_lock(&pointers_lock) deadlock" bug and a "sb_bread() with write_lock(&pointers_lock)" bug were introduced by "Replace BKL for chain locking with sysvfs-private rwlock" in Linux 2.5.12. Then, "[PATCH] err1-40: sysvfs locking fix" in Linux 2.6.8 fixed the former bug by moving pointers_lock lock to the callers, but instead introduced a "sb_bread() with read_lock(&pointers_lock)" bug (which made this problem easier to hit). Al Viro suggested that why not to do like get_branch()/get_block()/ find_shared() in Minix filesystem does. And doing like that is a revert of "[PATCH] err1-40: sysvfs locking fix" except that get_branch() from find_shared() is called without write_lock(&pointers_lock). Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+69b40dc5fd40f32c199f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=69b40dc5fd40f32c199f Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: Correct patch description. fs/sysv/itree.c | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/sysv/itree.c b/fs/sysv/itree.c index b22764fe669c..ab4756c94755 100644 --- a/fs/sysv/itree.c +++ b/fs/sysv/itree.c @@ -82,9 +82,6 @@ static inline sysv_zone_t *block_end(struct buffer_head *bh) return (sysv_zone_t*)((char*)bh->b_data + bh->b_size); } -/* - * Requires read_lock(&pointers_lock) or write_lock(&pointers_lock) - */ static Indirect *get_branch(struct inode *inode, int depth, int offsets[], @@ -104,15 +101,18 @@ static Indirect *get_branch(struct inode *inode, bh = sb_bread(sb, block); if (!bh) goto failure; + read_lock(&pointers_lock); if (!verify_chain(chain, p)) goto changed; add_chain(++p, bh, (sysv_zone_t*)bh->b_data + *++offsets); + read_unlock(&pointers_lock); if (!p->key) goto no_block; } return NULL; changed: + read_unlock(&pointers_lock); brelse(bh); *err = -EAGAIN; goto no_block; @@ -214,9 +214,7 @@ static int get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, struct buffer_head *b goto out; reread: - read_lock(&pointers_lock); partial = get_branch(inode, depth, offsets, chain, &err); - read_unlock(&pointers_lock); /* Simplest case - block found, no allocation needed */ if (!partial) { @@ -286,9 +284,9 @@ static Indirect *find_shared(struct inode *inode, *top = 0; for (k = depth; k > 1 && !offsets[k-1]; k--) ; + partial = get_branch(inode, k, offsets, chain, &err); write_lock(&pointers_lock); - partial = get_branch(inode, k, offsets, chain, &err); if (!partial) partial = chain + k-1; /* -- 2.34.1
