[PATCH] mm: shmem: disable interrupt when acquiring info->lock in userfaultfd_copy path

From: Yang Shi
Date: Thu Apr 16 2020 - 14:22:50 EST


Syzbot reported the below lockdep splat:

WARNING: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected
5.6.0-rc7-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
--------------------------------------------------------
syz-executor.0/10317 just changed the state of lock:
ffff888021d16568 (&(&info->lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: spin_lock
include/linux/spinlock.h:338 [inline]
ffff888021d16568 (&(&info->lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at:
shmem_mfill_atomic_pte+0x1012/0x21c0 mm/shmem.c:2407
but this lock was taken by another, SOFTIRQ-safe lock in the past:
(&(&xa->xa_lock)->rlock#5){..-.}

and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them.

other info that might help us debug this:
Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario:

CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(&(&info->lock)->rlock);
local_irq_disable();
lock(&(&xa->xa_lock)->rlock#5);
lock(&(&info->lock)->rlock);
<Interrupt>
lock(&(&xa->xa_lock)->rlock#5);

*** DEADLOCK ***

The full report is quite lengthy, please see:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/alpine.LSU.2.11.2004152007370.13597@xxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m813b412c5f78e25ca8c6c7734886ed4de43f241d

It is because CPU 0 held info->lock with IRQ enabled in userfaultfd_copy
path, then CPU 1 is splitting a THP which held xa_lock and info->lock in
IRQ disabled context at the same time. If softirq comes in to acquire
xa_lock, the deadlock would be triggered.

The fix is to acquire/release info->lock with *_irq version instead of
plain spin_{lock,unlock} to make it softirq safe.

Fixes: 4c27fe4c4c84 ("userfaultfd: shmem: add shmem_mcopy_atomic_pte for userfaultfd support")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+e27980339d305f2dbfd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index d722eb8..762da6a 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2399,11 +2399,11 @@ static int shmem_mfill_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,

lru_cache_add_anon(page);

- spin_lock(&info->lock);
+ spin_lock_irq(&info->lock);
info->alloced++;
inode->i_blocks += BLOCKS_PER_PAGE;
shmem_recalc_inode(inode);
- spin_unlock(&info->lock);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&info->lock);

inc_mm_counter(dst_mm, mm_counter_file(page));
page_add_file_rmap(page, false);
--
1.8.3.1