From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Cc: bcrl@kvack.org, linux-aio@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] fs/aio: A possible sleep-in-atomic bug in aio_migratepage
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 03:31:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171007023152.GQ21978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dee03130-37ef-3958-455b-b1fca415b2c1@163.com>
On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 09:36:48AM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> According to fs/aio.c, cond_resched is called under a spinlock,
> and the function call path is:
> aio_migratepage (acquire the spinlock)
> migrate_page_copy
> copy_huge_page
> __copy_gigantic_page
> cond_resched
> might_sleep
>
> This bug is found by my static analysis tool and my code review.
> A possible fix is to remove cond_resched in __copy_gigantic_page.
How the hell would a huge page end up in page cache of inode created
by aio_private_file()???
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2017-10-07 1:36 Jia-Ju Bai
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