The patch titled Subject: nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is nilfs2-fix-potential-deadlock-with-newly-created-symlinks.patch
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Subject: nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:51:28 +0900
Syzbot reported that page_symlink(), called by nilfs_symlink(), triggers memory reclamation involving the filesystem layer, which can result in circular lock dependencies among the reader/writer semaphore nilfs->ns_segctor_sem, s_writers percpu_rwsem (intwrite) and the fs_reclaim pseudo lock.
This is because after commit 21fc61c73c39 ("don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem"), the gfp flags of the page cache for symbolic links are overwritten to GFP_KERNEL via inode_nohighmem().
This is not a problem for symlinks read from the backing device, because the __GFP_FS flag is dropped after inode_nohighmem() is called. However, when a new symlink is created with nilfs_symlink(), the gfp flags remain overwritten to GFP_KERNEL. Then, memory allocation called from page_symlink() etc. triggers memory reclamation including the FS layer, which may call nilfs_evict_inode() or nilfs_dirty_inode(). And these can cause a deadlock if they are called while nilfs->ns_segctor_sem is held:
Fix this issue by dropping the __GFP_FS flag from the page cache GFP flags of newly created symlinks in the same way that nilfs_new_inode() and __nilfs_read_inode() do, as a workaround until we adopt nofs allocation scope consistently or improve the locking constraints.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241020050003.4308-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Fixes: 21fc61c73c39 ("don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem") Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+9ef37ac20608f4836256@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9ef37ac20608f4836256 Tested-by: syzbot+9ef37ac20608f4836256@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
fs/nilfs2/namei.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/nilfs2/namei.c~nilfs2-fix-potential-deadlock-with-newly-created-symlinks +++ a/fs/nilfs2/namei.c @@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ static int nilfs_symlink(struct mnt_idma /* slow symlink */ inode->i_op = &nilfs_symlink_inode_operations; inode_nohighmem(inode); + mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, + mapping_gfp_constraint(inode->i_mapping, + ~__GFP_FS)); inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &nilfs_aops; err = page_symlink(inode, symname, l); if (err) _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com are
nilfs2-fix-kernel-bug-due-to-missing-clearing-of-checked-flag.patch nilfs2-fix-potential-deadlock-with-newly-created-symlinks.patch