[PATCH 0/2] kernfs, autofs: fix pipe lock cycles through sysfs stores

[Krystian Kaniewski]

syzbot reports a lockdep cycle &pipe->mutex --> &of->mutex -->
&sbi->pipe_mutex. splice holds a pipe mutex while it calls the write or
read handler of a kernfs file, kernfs takes of->mutex there, and a write
to /sys/power/resume looks up a path that can make autofs write a request
into its daemon pipe and wait for the daemon.

Patch 1 stops holding of->mutex around the ->store() callback of regular
sysfs attributes, which do not get the open file and already run
concurrently for separate opens.

Patch 2 handles the case that patch 1 leaves. A store called from splice
still runs with the pipe locked. autofs no longer sends or waits for a
request in that context and returns -EAGAIN instead. A new mount is
refused before it is marked pending, so no other lookup sends the request
in its place. This also removes a deadlock in which the spliced pipe is
the autofs daemon pipe itself.

Patch 2 changes behavior for one narrow case. A lookup from a splice
callback that needs an automount fails with -EAGAIN instead of waiting.

The series was tested in QEMU with lockdep using the original C and syz
reproducers and focused splice and autofs cases. The target reports were
not reproduced with the series applied, and the paired functional cases
matched the unpatched baseline.

Krystian Kaniewski (2):
  kernfs: do not hold of->mutex across sysfs ->store()
  autofs: do not wait for the daemon while splice holds a pipe

 fs/autofs/expire.c     |  6 +++++
 fs/autofs/root.c       | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 fs/kernfs/file.c       | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 fs/splice.c            | 13 ++++++++++-
 fs/sysfs/file.c        | 18 ++++++++++++++-
 include/linux/kernfs.h | 11 +++++++++
 include/linux/sched.h  |  2 ++
 kernel/fork.c          |  1 +
 8 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)


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