This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2)
to the 3.14-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:
vfs-avoid-softlockups-with-sendfile-2.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c2489e07c0a71a56fb2c84bc0ee66cddfca7d068 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 13:09:51 +0100
Subject: vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2)
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
commit c2489e07c0a71a56fb2c84bc0ee66cddfca7d068 upstream.
The following test program from Dmitry can cause softlockups or RCU
stalls as it copies 1GB from tmpfs into eventfd and we don't have any
scheduling point at that path in sendfile(2) implementation:
int r1 = eventfd(0, 0);
int r2 = memfd_create("", 0);
unsigned long n = 1<<30;
fallocate(r2, 0, 0, n);
sendfile(r1, r2, 0, n);
Add cond_resched() into __splice_from_pipe() to fix the problem.
CC: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/splice.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -949,6 +949,7 @@ ssize_t __splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_i
splice_from_pipe_begin(sd);
do {
+ cond_resched();
ret = splice_from_pipe_next(pipe, sd);
if (ret > 0)
ret = splice_from_pipe_feed(pipe, sd, actor);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/vfs-avoid-softlockups-with-sendfile-2.patch
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