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dm bufio: fix deadlock with loop device 

When thin-volume is built on loop device, if available memory is low,
the following deadlock can be triggered:

One process P1 allocates memory with GFP_FS flag, direct alloc fails,
memory reclaim invokes memory shrinker in dm_bufio, dm_bufio_shrink_scan()
runs, mutex dm_bufio_client->lock is acquired, then P1 waits for dm_buffer
IO to complete in __try_evict_buffer().

But this IO may never complete if issued to an underlying loop device
that forwards it using direct-IO, which allocates memory using
GFP_KERNEL (see: do_blockdev_direct_IO()).  If allocation fails, memory
reclaim will invoke memory shrinker in dm_bufio, dm_bufio_shrink_scan()
will be invoked, and since the mutex is already held by P1 the loop
thread will hang, and IO will never complete.  Resulting in ABBA
deadlock.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
alistair/sunxi64-5.4-dsi
Junxiao Bi 2019-07-09 17:17:19 -07:00 committed by Mike Snitzer
parent 2e6023850e
commit bd293d071f
1 changed files with 1 additions and 3 deletions
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drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
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@ -1599,9 +1599,7 @@ dm_bufio_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
unsigned long freed;
c = container_of(shrink, struct dm_bufio_client, shrinker);
if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)
dm_bufio_lock(c);
else if (!dm_bufio_trylock(c))
if (!dm_bufio_trylock(c))
return SHRINK_STOP;
freed = __scan(c, sc->nr_to_scan, sc->gfp_mask);