4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ 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@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Al Viro viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- 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 d72d52b90433..280460fef066 100644 --- a/fs/drop_caches.c +++ b/fs/drop_caches.c @@ -20,8 +20,13 @@ 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; } @@ -29,6 +34,7 @@ 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;