From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> We noticed a kernel panic when unmounting tmpfs. It looks like a race condition in the following scenario: shmem_put_super() set sb->s_fs_info to NULL and shmem_evict_inode() tries to access sb->s_fs_info right after the sb->s_fs_info becomes NULL. CPU1 CPU2 work_pending work_pending do_notify_resume do_notify_resume ____fput task_work_run __fput __cleanup_mnt inotify_release cleanup_mnt fsnotify_destroy_group deactivate_super fsnotify_detach_group_marks deactivate_locked_super fsnotify_detach_mark kill_litter_super /* sb->s_fs_info = NULL */ iput evict /* use sb->s_fs_info */ Add a NULL pointer test in shmem_evict_inode(). We have stress-tested the patch for 5 days with no panic. Please note that this patch is a band-aid patch. VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of tmpfs. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... [name:traps&]Internal error: Accessing user space memory outside uaccess.h routines: [name:aee&]disable aee kernel api [name:mrdump&]Kernel Offset: 0x1326000000 from 0xffffff8008000000 [name:mrdump&]Non-crashing CPUs did not react to IPI CPU: 7 PID: 552 Comm: HwBinder:426_1 Tainted: G W O 4.9.117+ #2 Hardware name: MT6765 (DT) task: ffffffc62d340000 task.stack: ffffffc62d2b4000 PC is at shmem_evict_inode+0x150/0x19c LR is at evict+0xa4/0x1f4 [<ffffff932e083148>] el1_da+0x24/0x40 [<ffffff932e2acbac>] evict+0xa4/0x1f4 [<ffffff932e2aadc8>] iput+0x338/0x384 [<ffffff932e2db110>] fsnotify_detach_mark+0xac/0xe0 [<ffffff932e2dba20>] fsnotify_detach_group_marks+0x78/0xdc [<ffffff932e2daac4>] fsnotify_destroy_group+0x34/0x98 [<ffffff932e2dd810>] inotify_release+0x28/0x5c [<ffffff932e289614>] __fput+0xcc/0x1c8 [<ffffff932e2894f4>] ____fput+0xc/0x14 [<ffffff932e0da7cc>] task_work_run+0x88/0x11c [<ffffff932e08b53c>] do_notify_resume+0x5c/0x165c [<ffffff932e083c54>] work_pending+0x8/0x14 If we put a BUG() after after "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of tmpfs. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...", we can get another backtrace: [<ffffff94de6830e8>] el1_dbg+0x18/0xb8 [<ffffff94de8875ec>] kill_litter_super+0x28/0x74 [<ffffff94de885b40>] deactivate_locked_super+0x58/0x110 [<ffffff94de885c64>] deactivate_super+0x6c/0x78 [<ffffff94de8b20a0>] cleanup_mnt+0xb4/0x130 [<ffffff94de8b1fe4>] __cleanup_mnt+0x10/0x18 [<ffffff94de6d9bd0>] task_work_run+0x88/0x11c [<ffffff94de68ad64>] do_notify_resume+0x5c/0x1664 [<ffffff94de683a28>] work_pending+0x8/0x14 Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 4469426..a50a2c8 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ static int shmem_reserve_inode(struct super_block *sb) static void shmem_free_inode(struct super_block *sb) { struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(sb); - if (sbinfo->max_inodes) { + if (sbinfo && sbinfo->max_inodes) { spin_lock(&sbinfo->stat_lock); sbinfo->free_inodes++; spin_unlock(&sbinfo->stat_lock); -- 1.9.1