Re: possible deadlock in media_devnode_release

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Fri Jun 05 2020 - 00:20:55 EST


On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 10:38:50AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 5/23/20 10:04 AM, syzbot wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > syzbot found the following crash on:
> >
> > HEAD commit: c11d28ab Add linux-next specific files for 20200522
> > git tree: linux-next
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=17330172100000
> > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=3f6dbdea4159fb66
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e3c234427cd464510547
> > compiler: gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental)
> > syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=122eacba100000
> > C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=12fffa9a100000
> >
> > The bug was bisected to:
> >
> > commit 4ef12f7198023c09ad6d25b652bd8748c965c7fa
> > Author: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed May 13 15:18:40 2020 +0000
> >
> > kobject: Make sure the parent does not get released before its children
>
> Hi,
>
> Greg just sent a revert for this patch:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200523152922.GA224858@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> so all 3 of these reports should be cleared up soon.

Commit was reverted, so invalidating this bug report:

#syz invalid