Re: [PATCH next] io_uring: fix task hung in io_uring_setup

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Sep 03 2020 - 10:52:57 EST


On 9/3/20 7:21 AM, Hillf Danton wrote:
>
> The smart syzbot found the following issue:
>
> INFO: task syz-executor047:6853 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
> Not tainted 5.9.0-rc3-next-20200902-syzkaller #0
> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> task:syz-executor047 state:D stack:28104 pid: 6853 ppid: 6847 flags:0x00004000
> Call Trace:
> context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:3777 [inline]
> __schedule+0xea9/0x2230 kernel/sched/core.c:4526
> schedule+0xd0/0x2a0 kernel/sched/core.c:4601
> schedule_timeout+0x1d8/0x250 kernel/time/timer.c:1855
> do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:85 [inline]
> __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:106 [inline]
> wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:117 [inline]
> wait_for_completion+0x163/0x260 kernel/sched/completion.c:138
> io_sq_thread_stop fs/io_uring.c:6906 [inline]
> io_finish_async fs/io_uring.c:6920 [inline]
> io_sq_offload_create fs/io_uring.c:7595 [inline]
> io_uring_create fs/io_uring.c:8671 [inline]
> io_uring_setup+0x1495/0x29a0 fs/io_uring.c:8744
> do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
>
> because the sqo_thread kthread is created in io_sq_offload_create() without
> being waked up. Then in the error branch of that function we will wait for
> the sqo kthread that never runs. It's fixed by waking it up before waiting.

Looks good - applied, thanks.

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Jens Axboe