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Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> writes: > This patch has locking problem. I've got lockdep splat under LTP. > > [ 6633.115456] ====================================================== > [ 6633.115502] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > [ 6633.115553] 4.9.10-debug+ #9 Tainted: G L > [ 6633.115584] ------------------------------------------------------- > [ 6633.115627] ksm02/284980 is trying to acquire lock: > [ 6633.115659] (&sb->s_type->i_lock_key#4){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff816bc1ce>] igrab+0x1e/0x80 > [ 6633.115834] but task is already holding lock: > [ 6633.115882] (sysctl_lock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff817e379b>] unregister_sysctl_table+0x6b/0x110 > [ 6633.116026] which lock already depends on the new lock. > [ 6633.116026] > [ 6633.116080] > [ 6633.116080] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: > [ 6633.116117] > -> #2 (sysctl_lock){+.+...}: > -> #1 (&(&dentry->d_lockref.lock)->rlock){+.+...}: > -> #0 (&sb->s_type->i_lock_key#4){+.+...}: > > d_lock nests inside i_lock > sysctl_lock nests inside d_lock in d_compare > > This patch adds i_lock nesting inside sysctl_lock. Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> replied: > Once ->unregistering is set, you can drop sysctl_lock just fine. So I'd > try something like this - use rcu_read_lock() in proc_sys_prune_dcache(), > drop sysctl_lock() before it and regain after. Make sure that no inodes > are added to the list ones ->unregistering has been set and use RCU list > primitives for modifying the inode list, with sysctl_lock still used to > serialize its modifications. > > Freeing struct inode is RCU-delayed (see proc_destroy_inode()), so doing > igrab() is safe there. Since we don't drop inode reference until after we'd > passed beyond it in the list, list_for_each_entry_rcu() should be fine. I agree with Al Viro's analsysis of the situtation. Fixes: d6cffbbe9a7e ("proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering") Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Tested-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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