The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x bd5603eaae0aabf527bfb3ce1bb07e979ce5bd50 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025122914-hundredth-munchkin-531c@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..
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thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From bd5603eaae0aabf527bfb3ce1bb07e979ce5bd50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joanne Koong joannelkoong@gmail.com Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:07:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fuse: fix readahead reclaim deadlock
Commit e26ee4efbc79 ("fuse: allocate ff->release_args only if release is needed") skips allocating ff->release_args if the server does not implement open. However in doing so, fuse_prepare_release() now skips grabbing the reference on the inode, which makes it possible for an inode to be evicted from the dcache while there are inflight readahead requests. This causes a deadlock if the server triggers reclaim while servicing the readahead request and reclaim attempts to evict the inode of the file being read ahead. Since the folio is locked during readahead, when reclaim evicts the fuse inode and fuse_evict_inode() attempts to remove all folios associated with the inode from the page cache (truncate_inode_pages_range()), reclaim will block forever waiting for the lock since readahead cannot relinquish the lock because it is itself blocked in reclaim:
stack_trace(1504735)
folio_wait_bit_common (mm/filemap.c:1308:4) folio_lock (./include/linux/pagemap.h:1052:3) truncate_inode_pages_range (mm/truncate.c:336:10) fuse_evict_inode (fs/fuse/inode.c:161:2) evict (fs/inode.c:704:3) dentry_unlink_inode (fs/dcache.c:412:3) __dentry_kill (fs/dcache.c:615:3) shrink_kill (fs/dcache.c:1060:12) shrink_dentry_list (fs/dcache.c:1087:3) prune_dcache_sb (fs/dcache.c:1168:2) super_cache_scan (fs/super.c:221:10) do_shrink_slab (mm/shrinker.c:435:9) shrink_slab (mm/shrinker.c:626:10) shrink_node (mm/vmscan.c:5951:2) shrink_zones (mm/vmscan.c:6195:3) do_try_to_free_pages (mm/vmscan.c:6257:3) do_swap_page (mm/memory.c:4136:11) handle_pte_fault (mm/memory.c:5562:10) handle_mm_fault (mm/memory.c:5870:9) do_user_addr_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1338:10) handle_page_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1481:3) exc_page_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1539:2) asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x27
Fix this deadlock by allocating ff->release_args and grabbing the reference on the inode when preparing the file for release even if the server does not implement open. The inode reference will be dropped when the last reference on the fuse file is dropped (see fuse_file_put() -> fuse_release_end()).
Fixes: e26ee4efbc79 ("fuse: allocate ff->release_args only if release is needed") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong joannelkoong@gmail.com Reported-by: Omar Sandoval osandov@fb.com Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com
diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c index f1ef77a0be05..4d96e684d736 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/file.c +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c @@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ static void fuse_file_put(struct fuse_file *ff, bool sync) fuse_file_io_release(ff, ra->inode);
if (!args) { - /* Do nothing when server does not implement 'open' */ + /* Do nothing when server does not implement 'opendir' */ + } else if (args->opcode == FUSE_RELEASE && ff->fm->fc->no_open) { + fuse_release_end(ff->fm, args, 0); } else if (sync) { fuse_simple_request(ff->fm, args); fuse_release_end(ff->fm, args, 0); @@ -131,8 +133,17 @@ struct fuse_file *fuse_file_open(struct fuse_mount *fm, u64 nodeid, struct fuse_file *ff; int opcode = isdir ? FUSE_OPENDIR : FUSE_OPEN; bool open = isdir ? !fc->no_opendir : !fc->no_open; + bool release = !isdir || open;
- ff = fuse_file_alloc(fm, open); + /* + * ff->args->release_args still needs to be allocated (so we can hold an + * inode reference while there are pending inflight file operations when + * ->release() is called, see fuse_prepare_release()) even if + * fc->no_open is set else it becomes possible for reclaim to deadlock + * if while servicing the readahead request the server triggers reclaim + * and reclaim evicts the inode of the file being read ahead. + */ + ff = fuse_file_alloc(fm, release); if (!ff) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
@@ -152,13 +163,14 @@ struct fuse_file *fuse_file_open(struct fuse_mount *fm, u64 nodeid, fuse_file_free(ff); return ERR_PTR(err); } else { - /* No release needed */ - kfree(ff->args); - ff->args = NULL; - if (isdir) + if (isdir) { + /* No release needed */ + kfree(ff->args); + ff->args = NULL; fc->no_opendir = 1; - else + } else { fc->no_open = 1; + } } }