[PATCH 4.20 067/171] fs/drop_caches.c: avoid softlockups in drop_pagecache_sb()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-03-12T18:05:04Z

[ 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 82377017130f..d31b6c72b476 100644
--- a/fs/drop_caches.c
+++ b/fs/drop_caches.c
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ 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;
}
@@ -30,6 +35,7 @@ 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;
--
2.19.1