Re: [PATCH 4.19 02/80] shmem: fix possible deadlocks on shmlock_user_lock

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> This may not risk an actual deadlock, since shmem inodes do not take
> part in writeback accounting, but there are several easy ways to avoid
> it.

...

> Take info->lock out of the chain and the possibility of deadlock or
> lockdep warning goes away.

It is unclear to me if actual possibility of deadlock exists or not,
but anyway:

>  	int retval = -ENOMEM;
>  
> -	spin_lock_irq(&info->lock);
> +	/*
> +	 * What serializes the accesses to info->flags?
> +	 * ipc_lock_object() when called from shmctl_do_lock(),
> +	 * no serialization needed when called from shm_destroy().
> +	 */
>  	if (lock && !(info->flags & VM_LOCKED)) {
>  		if (!user_shm_lock(inode->i_size, user))
>  			goto out_nomem;

Should we have READ_ONCE() here? If it is okay, are concurency
sanitizers smart enough to realize that it is okay? Replacing warning
with different one would not be exactly a win...

Best regards,

									Pavel
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