Re: splice() rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU

[Qian Cai]

> On May 5, 2020, at 2:57 PM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 03:11:09PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
>> Running a syscall fuzzer inside a container on linux-next floods systems with soft lockups. It looks like stuck in this line at iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(), Thoughts?
>> 
>> iterate_all_kinds(i, bytes, v,
>>                copyin((p += v.iov_len) - v.iov_len, v.iov_base, v.iov_len),
>>                memcpy_from_page((p += v.bv_len) - v.bv_len, v.bv_page,
>>                                 v.bv_offset, v.bv_len),
>>                memcpy((p += v.iov_len) - v.iov_len, v.iov_base, v.iov_len)
>>        )
> 
> If the size being copied is large enough, something like this might happen.
> 
> Is this a CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernel?  And is the size passed in to

Yes, CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.

> iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic() quite large, given that this is generated
> by a fuzzer?  If so, one thing to try is to add cond_resched() in the
> iterate_bvec(), iterate_kvec(), and iterate_iovec() macros.

Iâll try that.