This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled shmem: fix possible deadlocks on shmlock_user_lock to the 5.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: shmem-fix-possible-deadlocks-on-shmlock_user_lock.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 848d0337eca75031cf4419b4a5ca9bc53bda4588 Author: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Apr 20 18:14:14 2020 -0700 shmem: fix possible deadlocks on shmlock_user_lock [ Upstream commit ea0dfeb4209b4eab954d6e00ed136bc6b48b380d ] Recent commit 71725ed10c40 ("mm: huge tmpfs: try to split_huge_page() when punching hole") has allowed syzkaller to probe deeper, uncovering a long-standing lockdep issue between the irq-unsafe shmlock_user_lock, the irq-safe xa_lock on mapping->i_pages, and shmem inode's info->lock which nests inside xa_lock (or tree_lock) since 4.8's shmem_uncharge(). user_shm_lock(), servicing SysV shmctl(SHM_LOCK), wants shmlock_user_lock while its caller shmem_lock() holds info->lock with interrupts disabled; but hugetlbfs_file_setup() calls user_shm_lock() with interrupts enabled, and might be interrupted by a writeback endio wanting xa_lock on i_pages. This may not risk an actual deadlock, since shmem inodes do not take part in writeback accounting, but there are several easy ways to avoid it. Requiring interrupts disabled for shmlock_user_lock would be easy, but it's a high-level global lock for which that seems inappropriate. Instead, recall that the use of info->lock to guard info->flags in shmem_lock() dates from pre-3.1 days, when races with SHMEM_PAGEIN and SHMEM_TRUNCATE could occur: nowadays it serves no purpose, the only flag added or removed is VM_LOCKED itself, and calls to shmem_lock() an inode are already serialized by the caller. Take info->lock out of the chain and the possibility of deadlock or lockdep warning goes away. Fixes: 4595ef88d136 ("shmem: make shmem_inode_info::lock irq-safe") Reported-by: syzbot+c8a8197c8852f566b9d9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: syzbot+40b71e145e73f78f81ad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2004161707410.16322@eggly.anvils Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/000000000000e5838c05a3152f53@xxxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0000000000003712b305a331d3b1@xxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 7406f91f8a528..153d889e32d1d 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2184,7 +2184,11 @@ int shmem_lock(struct file *file, int lock, struct user_struct *user) struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode); int retval = -ENOMEM; - spin_lock_irq(&info->lock); + /* + * What serializes the accesses to info->flags? + * ipc_lock_object() when called from shmctl_do_lock(), + * no serialization needed when called from shm_destroy(). + */ if (lock && !(info->flags & VM_LOCKED)) { if (!user_shm_lock(inode->i_size, user)) goto out_nomem; @@ -2199,7 +2203,6 @@ int shmem_lock(struct file *file, int lock, struct user_struct *user) retval = 0; out_nomem: - spin_unlock_irq(&info->lock); return retval; }