Re: tty: possible deadlock in tty_buffer_flush

[gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 12:42:12AM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 17:19 +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > I've got the following error report while fuzzing the kernel with syzkaller.
> > 
> > On commit 5ed02dbb497422bf225783f46e6eadd237d23d6b (4.12-rc3).
> > 
> > ======================================================
> > WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> > 4.12.0-rc3+ #369 Not tainted
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > kworker/u9:1/31 is trying to acquire lock:
> >  (&buf->lock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff823dd42b>]
> > tty_buffer_flush+0xbb/0x3b0 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:221
> > 
> > but task is already holding lock:
> >  (&o_tty->termios_rwsem/1){++++..}, at: [<ffffffff823cd5d1>]
> > isig+0xa1/0x4d0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1100
> > 
> > which lock already depends on the new lock.
> 
> Hello Andrey,
> 
> I also see this warning but during regular boot (without running syzkaller).
> Do you perhaps have the time to bisect this?

Should be fixed in 4.12-rc4, right?

thanks,

greg k-h