Re: INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Wed Dec 19 2018 - 13:42:32 EST


On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:13 AM Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2018/12/19 18:27, syzbot wrote:
> > HEAD commit: ddfbab46539f Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.or..
> > git tree: upstream
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15b87fa3400000
> > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=861a3573f4e78ba1
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bcad772bbc241b4c6147
> > compiler: gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180413 (experimental)
> > syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=13912ccd400000
> > C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=145781db400000
>
> This is not a LSM problem, for the reproducer is calling
> sched_setattr(SCHED_DEADLINE) with very large values.
>
> sched_setattr(0, {size=0, sched_policy=0x6 /* SCHED_??? */, sched_flags=0, sched_nice=0, sched_priority=0, sched_runtime=2251799813724439, sched_deadline=4611686018427453437, sched_period=0}, 0) = 0
>
> I think that this problem is nothing but an insane sched_setattr() parameter.
>
> #syz invalid

Note there was another one with sched_setattr, which turned out to be
some serious problem in kernel (sched_setattr should not cause CPU
stall for 3 minutes):
INFO: rcu detected stall in do_idle
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=385468161961cee80c31
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/syzkaller-bugs/crrfvusGtwI/IoD_zus4BgAJ

Maybe it another incarnation of the same bug, that one is still not fixed.