[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.9 36/44] io_uring: fix possible deadlock in io_register_iowq_max_workers()

Sasha Levin
2024-06-18T12:37:36Z

From: Hagar Hemdan <hagarhem@amazon.com>

[ Upstream commit 73254a297c2dd094abec7c9efee32455ae875bdf ]

The io_register_iowq_max_workers() function calls io_put_sq_data(),
which acquires the sqd->lock without releasing the uring_lock.
Similar to the commit 009ad9f0c6ee ("io_uring: drop ctx->uring_lock
before acquiring sqd->lock"), this can lead to a potential deadlock
situation.

To resolve this issue, the uring_lock is released before calling
io_put_sq_data(), and then it is re-acquired after the function call.

This change ensures that the locks are acquired in the correct
order, preventing the possibility of a deadlock.

Suggested-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Hagar Hemdan <hagarhem@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240604130527.3597-1-hagarhem@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
io_uring/register.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/io_uring/register.c b/io_uring/register.c
index 99c37775f974c..1ae8491e35abb 100644
--- a/io_uring/register.c
+++ b/io_uring/register.c
@@ -355,8 +355,10 @@ static __cold int io_register_iowq_max_workers(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
}

if (sqd) {
+ mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock);
mutex_unlock(&sqd->lock);
io_put_sq_data(sqd);
+ mutex_lock(&ctx->uring_lock);
}

if (copy_to_user(arg, new_count, sizeof(new_count)))
@@ -381,8 +383,10 @@ static __cold int io_register_iowq_max_workers(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
return 0;
err:
if (sqd) {
+ mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock);
mutex_unlock(&sqd->lock);
io_put_sq_data(sqd);
+ mutex_lock(&ctx->uring_lock);
}
return ret;
}
--
2.43.0