[PATCH 5.4 106/411] fsnotify: fix wrong lockdep annotations

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-13T11:21:34Z

From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 623af4f538b5df9b416e1b82f720af7371b4c771 ]

Commit 6960b0d909cd ("fsnotify: change locking order") changed some
of the mark_mutex locks in direct reclaim path to use:
mutex_lock_nested(&group->mark_mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);

This change is explained:
"...It uses nested locking to avoid deadlock in case we do the final
iput() on an inode which still holds marks and thus would take the
mutex again when calling fsnotify_inode_delete() in destroy_inode()."

The problem is that the mutex_lock_nested() is not a nested lock at
all. In fact, it has the opposite effect of preventing lockdep from
warning about a very possible deadlock.

Due to these wrong annotations, a deadlock that was introduced with
nfsd filecache in kernel v5.4 went unnoticed in v5.4.y for over two
years until it was reported recently by Khazhismel Kumykov, only to
find out that the deadlock was already fixed in kernel v5.5.

Fix the wrong lockdep annotations.

Cc: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
Fixes: 6960b0d909cd ("fsnotify: change locking order")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220321112310.vpr7oxro2xkz5llh@quack3.lan/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220422120327.3459282-4-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/notify/mark.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/mark.c b/fs/notify/mark.c
index 1d96216dffd1..fdf8e03bf3df 100644
--- a/fs/notify/mark.c
+++ b/fs/notify/mark.c
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ void fsnotify_free_mark(struct fsnotify_mark *mark)
void fsnotify_destroy_mark(struct fsnotify_mark *mark,
struct fsnotify_group *group)
{
- mutex_lock_nested(&group->mark_mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+ mutex_lock(&group->mark_mutex);
fsnotify_detach_mark(mark);
mutex_unlock(&group->mark_mutex);
fsnotify_free_mark(mark);
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ void fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group(struct fsnotify_group *group,
* move marks to free to to_free list in one go and then free marks in
* to_free list one by one.
*/
- mutex_lock_nested(&group->mark_mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+ mutex_lock(&group->mark_mutex);
list_for_each_entry_safe(mark, lmark, &group->marks_list, g_list) {
if ((1U << mark->connector->type) & type_mask)
list_move(&mark->g_list, &to_free);
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ void fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group(struct fsnotify_group *group,

clear:
while (1) {
- mutex_lock_nested(&group->mark_mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+ mutex_lock(&group->mark_mutex);
if (list_empty(head)) {
mutex_unlock(&group->mark_mutex);
break;
--
2.35.1