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authorQi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>2023-02-02 18:56:12 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-09 15:56:51 -0800
commitbadc28d4924bfed73efc93f716a0c3aa3afbdf6f (patch)
tree71a94e24eaf573ef94b3544d5db872a15a5fef7d /mm/vmscan.c
parent6b970599e807ea95c653926d41b095a92fd381e2 (diff)
mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs
The debugfs_remove_recursive() is invoked by unregister_shrinker(), which is holding the write lock of shrinker_rwsem. It will waits for the handler of debugfs file complete. The handler also needs to hold the read lock of shrinker_rwsem to do something. So it may cause the following deadlock: CPU0 CPU1 debugfs_file_get() shrinker_debugfs_count_show()/shrinker_debugfs_scan_write() unregister_shrinker() --> down_write(&shrinker_rwsem); debugfs_remove_recursive() // wait for (A) --> wait_for_completion(); // wait for (B) --> down_read_killable(&shrinker_rwsem) debugfs_file_put() -- (A) up_write() -- (B) The down_read_killable() can be killed, so that the above deadlock can be recovered. But it still requires an extra kill action, otherwise it will block all subsequent shrinker-related operations, so it's better to fix it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG=n stub] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230202105612.64641-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Fixes: 5035ebc644ae ("mm: shrinkers: introduce debugfs interface for memory shrinkers") Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index bf3eedf0209c..5b7b8d4f5297 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -741,6 +741,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_shrinker);
*/
void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
{
+ struct dentry *debugfs_entry;
+
if (!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_REGISTERED))
return;
@@ -749,9 +751,11 @@ void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
shrinker->flags &= ~SHRINKER_REGISTERED;
if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE)
unregister_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
- shrinker_debugfs_remove(shrinker);
+ debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_remove(shrinker);
up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
+ debugfs_remove_recursive(debugfs_entry);
+
kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
shrinker->nr_deferred = NULL;
}