Re: WARNING: bad unlock balance in ovl_llseek

[Amir Goldstein]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 1:17 PM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 12:10 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > =====================================
> > > WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!
> > > 5.6.0-rc3-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
> > > -------------------------------------
> > > syz-executor194/8947 is trying to release lock (&ovl_i_lock_key[depth]) at:
> > > [<ffffffff828b7835>] ovl_inode_unlock fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:328 [inline]
> > > [<ffffffff828b7835>] ovl_llseek+0x215/0x2c0 fs/overlayfs/file.c:193
> > > but there are no more locks to release!
> > >
> >
> > This is strange. I don't see how that can happen nor how my change would
> > have caused this regression. If anything, the lock chance may have brought
> > a bug in stack file ops to light, but don't see the bug.
>
> The bug is that ovl_inode_lock() is interruptible and that the caller
> doesn't check for error.
>
> I think the fix is to make this lock uninterruptible (probably rename
> the current helper to _interruptible and use the current name as the
> uninterruptible version).
>

Ok.

Thanks,
Amir.