[PATCH 4.9 124/223] dm bufio: fix deadlock with loop device

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02T09:45:35Z

From: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>

commit bd293d071ffe65e645b4d8104f9d8fe15ea13862 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -1585,9 +1585,7 @@ dm_bufio_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *sh
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);