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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210211104947.GL19070@quack2.suse.cz> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu 11-02-21 11:49:47, Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > added mm guys to CC. > > On Wed 10-02-21 05:35:18, syzbot wrote: > > HEAD commit: 1e0d27fc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) > > git tree: upstream > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15cbce90d00000 > > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=bd1f72220b2e57eb > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bfdded10ab7dcd7507ae > > userspace arch: i386 > > > > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet. > > > > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit: > > Reported-by: syzbot+bfdded10ab7dcd7507ae@syzkaller.appspotmail.com > > > > ====================================================== > > WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected > > 5.11.0-rc6-syzkaller #0 Not tainted > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > kswapd0/2246 is trying to acquire lock: > > ffff888041a988e0 (jbd2_handle){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_this_handle+0xf81/0x1380 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:444 > > > > but task is already holding lock: > > ffffffff8be892c0 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x0/0x30 mm/page_alloc.c:5195 > > > > which lock already depends on the new lock. > > > > the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: > > > > -> #2 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}: > > __fs_reclaim_acquire mm/page_alloc.c:4326 [inline] > > fs_reclaim_acquire+0x117/0x150 mm/page_alloc.c:4340 > > might_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:193 [inline] > > slab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:493 [inline] > > slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2817 [inline] > > __kmalloc_node+0x5f/0x430 mm/slub.c:4015 > > kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:575 [inline] > > kvmalloc_node+0x61/0xf0 mm/util.c:587 > > kvmalloc include/linux/mm.h:781 [inline] > > ext4_xattr_inode_cache_find fs/ext4/xattr.c:1465 [inline] > > ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create fs/ext4/xattr.c:1508 [inline] > > ext4_xattr_set_entry+0x1ce6/0x3780 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1649 > > ext4_xattr_ibody_set+0x78/0x2b0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2224 > > ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x8f4/0x13e0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2380 > > ext4_xattr_set+0x13a/0x340 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2493 > > ext4_xattr_user_set+0xbc/0x100 fs/ext4/xattr_user.c:40 > > __vfs_setxattr+0x10e/0x170 fs/xattr.c:177 > > __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x11a/0x4c0 fs/xattr.c:208 > > __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x1bf/0x250 fs/xattr.c:266 > > vfs_setxattr+0x135/0x320 fs/xattr.c:291 > > setxattr+0x1ff/0x290 fs/xattr.c:553 > > path_setxattr+0x170/0x190 fs/xattr.c:572 > > __do_sys_setxattr fs/xattr.c:587 [inline] > > __se_sys_setxattr fs/xattr.c:583 [inline] > > __ia32_sys_setxattr+0xbc/0x150 fs/xattr.c:583 > > do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:77 [inline] > > __do_fast_syscall_32+0x56/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:139 > > do_fast_syscall_32+0x2f/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:164 > > entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x4d/0x5c > > This stacktrace should never happen. ext4_xattr_set() starts a transaction. > That internally goes through start_this_handle() which calls: > > handle->saved_alloc_context = memalloc_nofs_save(); > > and we restore the allocation context only in stop_this_handle() when > stopping the handle. And with this fs_reclaim_acquire() should remove > __GFP_FS from the mask and not call __fs_reclaim_acquire(). > > Now I have no idea why something here didn't work out. Given we don't have > a reproducer it will be probably difficult to debug this. I'd note that > about year and half ago similar report happened (got autoclosed) so it may > be something real somewhere but it may also be just some HW glitch or > something like that. Is it possible this is just a lockdep false positive? Is it possible that there is a pre-recorded lock dependency chain that happens outside of the transaction and that clashes with this one? I do not remember any recent changes in the way how scope API is handled except for CMA scope API changes but those should be pretty much independent. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs