Re: namespace: deadlock in dec_pid_namespaces

From: Nikolay Borisov
Date: Fri Jan 20 2017 - 17:44:37 EST


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On 20.01.2017 20:05, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 20.01.2017 15:07, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've got the following deadlock report while running syzkaller fuzzer
>>> on eec0d3d065bfcdf9cd5f56dd2a36b94d12d32297 of linux-next (on odroid
>>> device if it matters):
>
> I am puzzled I thought we had fixed this with:
> add7c65ca426 ("pid: fix lockdep deadlock warning due to ucount_lock")
> But apparently not. We just moved it from hardirq to softirq context. Bah.
>
> Thank you very much for the report.
>
> Nikolay can you make your change use spinlock_irq? And have put_ucounts
> do spin_lock_irqsave? That way we just don't care where we call this.

Like the one attached? I haven't really taken careful look as to whether
the function where _irq versions do fiddle with irq state, since this
might cause a problem if we unconditionally enable them.

>
> I a tired of being clever.
>
> Eric
>
>