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* [PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 1/4] Input: mousedev - add a schedule point in mousedev_write()
@ 2018-10-22 10:22 Sasha Levin
  2018-10-22 10:22 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 2/4] Input: evdev - add a schedule point in evdev_write() Sasha Levin
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From: Sasha Levin @ 2018-10-22 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable, linux-kernel; +Cc: Eric Dumazet, Dmitry Torokhov, Sasha Levin

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit f74c371fe72a4f820d287db8067683fb533e4ede ]

syzbot was able to trigger rcu stalls by calling write()
with large number of bytes.

Add a cond_resched() in the loop to avoid this.

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/23/1106
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+9436b02171ac0894d33e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/input/mousedev.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/input/mousedev.c b/drivers/input/mousedev.c
index b604564dec5c..036acf861496 100644
--- a/drivers/input/mousedev.c
+++ b/drivers/input/mousedev.c
@@ -701,6 +701,7 @@ static ssize_t mousedev_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
 		mousedev_generate_response(client, c);
 
 		spin_unlock_irq(&client->packet_lock);
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 
 	kill_fasync(&client->fasync, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
-- 
2.17.1


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