Re: possible deadlock in io_poll_double_wake

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Aug 30 2022 - 09:59:40 EST


On 8/30/22 7:33 AM, Jiacheng Xu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When using modified Syzkaller to fuzz the Linux kernel-5.19, the
> following crash was triggered. Though the issue seems to get fixed on
> syzbot(https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=12e4415bf5272f433acefa690478208f3be3be2d),
> it could still be triggered with the following repro.
> We would appreciate a CVE ID if this is a security issue.

It's not, and in any case, the kernel has nothing to do with CVEs.

> HEAD commit: 568035b01cfb Linux-5.15.58
> git tree: upstream
>
> console output:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e4DHaUKhY9DLZJK_pNScWHydUv-MaD9_/view?usp=sharing
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NmOGWcfPnY2kSrS0nOwvG1AZ923jFQ3p/view?usp=sharing
> kernel config: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wgIUDwP5ho29AM-K7HhysSTfWFpfXYkG/view?usp=sharing
> syz repro: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e5xY8AOMimLbpAlOOupmGYC_tUA3sa8k/view?usp=sharing
> C reproducer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1esAe__18Lt7and43QdXFfI6GJCsF85_z/view?usp=sharing
>
> Description:
> spin_lock_irqsave() in __wake_up_common_lock() is called before waking
> up a task. However, spin_lock_irqsave() has to be called once in
> io_poll_double_wake().
> such call stack is:
>
> snd_pcm_post_stop()
> __wake_up_common_lock()
> spin_lock_irqsave()
> io_poll_double_wake()
> spin_lock_irqsave()

Please prove that this is actually trying to lock the same waitq.

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Jens Axboe