4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ [ Upstream commit c27d82f52f75fc9d8d9d40d120d2a96fdeeada5e ] When superblock has lots of inodes without any pagecache (like is the case for /proc), drop_pagecache_sb() will iterate through all of them without dropping sb->s_inode_list_lock which can lead to softlockups (one of our customers hit this). Fix the problem by going to the slow path and doing cond_resched() in case the process needs rescheduling. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114085343.15011-1-jack@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/drop_caches.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c index 82377017130f..d31b6c72b476 100644 --- a/fs/drop_caches.c +++ b/fs/drop_caches.c @@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused) spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) { spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); + /* + * We must skip inodes in unusual state. We may also skip + * inodes without pages but we deliberately won't in case + * we need to reschedule to avoid softlockups. + */ if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) || - (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)) { + (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0 && !need_resched())) { spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); continue; } @@ -30,6 +35,7 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused) spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); + cond_resched(); invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1); iput(toput_inode); toput_inode = inode; -- 2.19.1
