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| author | Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> | 2018-12-10 16:56:45 -0800 | 
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| committer | Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> | 2019-01-17 16:24:39 -0800 | 
| commit | 4d447455e73b47c43dd35fcc38ed823d3182a474 (patch) | |
| tree | ed811c74d2bc3ae994e1e4afb460a79c96f5d567 /lib/test_overflow.c | |
| parent | f731a8e89f8c78985707c626680f3e24c7a60772 (diff) | |
ARC: mm: do_page_fault fixes #1: relinquish mmap_sem if signal arrives while handle_mm_fault
do_page_fault() forgot to relinquish mmap_sem if a signal came while
handling handle_mm_fault() - due to say a ctl+c or oom etc.
This would later cause a deadlock by acquiring it twice.
This came to light when running libc testsuite tst-tls3-malloc test but
is likely also the cause for prior seen LTP failures. Using lockdep
clearly showed what the issue was.
| # while true; do ./tst-tls3-malloc ; done
| Didn't expect signal from child: got `Segmentation fault'
| ^C
| ============================================
| WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
| 4.17.0+ #25 Not tainted
| --------------------------------------------
| tst-tls3-malloc/510 is trying to acquire lock:
| 606c7728 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: __might_fault+0x28/0x5c
|
|but task is already holding lock:
|606c7728 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: do_page_fault+0x9c/0x2a0
|
| other info that might help us debug this:
|  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
|
|       CPU0
|       ----
|  lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
|  lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
| *** DEADLOCK ***
|
------------------------------------------------------------
What the change does is not obvious (note to myself)
prior code was
| do_page_fault
|
|   down_read()		<-- lock taken
|   handle_mm_fault	<-- signal pending as this runs
|   if fatal_signal_pending
|       if VM_FAULT_ERROR
|           up_read
|       if user_mode
|          return	<-- lock still held, this was the BUG
New code
| do_page_fault
|
|   down_read()		<-- lock taken
|   handle_mm_fault	<-- signal pending as this runs
|   if fatal_signal_pending
|       if VM_FAULT_RETRY
|          return       <-- not same case as above, but still OK since
|                           core mm already relinq lock for FAULT_RETRY
|    ...
|
|   < Now falls through for bug case above >
|
|   up_read()		<-- lock relinquished
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
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