Re: WARNING: lock held when returning to user space in fuse_lock_inode

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 5:49 PM, syzbot
<syzbot+3f7b29af1baa9d0a55be@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> syzbot found the following crash on:
>
> HEAD commit:    c25c74b7476e Merge tag 'trace-v4.18-rc3-2' of git://git.ke..
> git tree:       upstream
> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=177bcec2400000
> kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=25856fac4e580aa7
> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3f7b29af1baa9d0a55be
> compiler:       gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180413 (experimental)
> syzkaller repro:https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=13aa7678400000
> C reproducer:   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=17492678400000
>
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> Reported-by: syzbot+3f7b29af1baa9d0a55be@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> random: sshd: uninitialized urandom read (32 bytes read)
> random: sshd: uninitialized urandom read (32 bytes read)
> random: sshd: uninitialized urandom read (32 bytes read)
>
> ================================================
> WARNING: lock held when returning to user space!
> 4.18.0-rc4+ #143 Not tainted
> ------------------------------------------------
> syz-executor012/4539 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
> 1 lock held by syz-executor012/4539:
>  #0: (____ptrval____) (&fi->mutex){+.+.}, at: fuse_lock_inode+0xaf/0xe0
> fs/fuse/inode.c:363

False positive.

fi->mutex is definitely not held by the acquiring task when returning
to userspace.  Maybe syzkaller is confused by the fact that there are
several interdependent tasks involved with fuse:  the one calling into
fuse by doing something (looking up ./file0/file0) and the one that
reads the fuse device (returning with the LOOKUP request for "file0").
The second one will return with that lock held, but it's not the one
that acquired it, so there's no bug at all here.

Thanks,
Miklos

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