From 26e239b37ebdfd189a2e6f94d3407e70313348bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joan Bruguera Micó Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 01:32:32 +0000 Subject: mm: shrinkers: fix race condition on debugfs cleanup MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When something registers and unregisters many shrinkers, such as: for x in $(seq 10000); do unshare -Ui true; done Sometimes the following error is printed to the kernel log: debugfs: Directory '...' with parent 'shrinker' already present! This occurs since commit badc28d4924b ("mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs") / v6.2: Since the call to `debugfs_remove_recursive` was moved outside the `shrinker_rwsem`/`shrinker_mutex` lock, but the call to `ida_free` stayed inside, a newly registered shrinker can be re-assigned that ID and attempt to create the debugfs directory before the directory from the previous shrinker has been removed. The locking changes in commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless") made the race condition more likely, though it existed before then. Commit badc28d4924b ("mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs") could be reverted since the issue is addressed should no longer occur since the count and scan operations are lockless since commit 20cd1892fcc3 ("mm: shrinkers: make count and scan in shrinker debugfs lockless"). However, since this is a contended lock, prefer instead moving `ida_free` outside the lock to avoid the race. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503013232.299211-1-joanbrugueram@gmail.com Fixes: badc28d4924b ("mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs") Signed-off-by: Joan Bruguera Micó Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Roman Gushchin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/vmscan.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index d257916f39e5..6d0cd2840cf0 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -805,6 +805,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_shrinker); void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) { struct dentry *debugfs_entry; + int debugfs_id; if (!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_REGISTERED)) return; @@ -814,13 +815,13 @@ void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) shrinker->flags &= ~SHRINKER_REGISTERED; if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE) unregister_memcg_shrinker(shrinker); - debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_remove(shrinker); + debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_detach(shrinker, &debugfs_id); mutex_unlock(&shrinker_mutex); atomic_inc(&shrinker_srcu_generation); synchronize_srcu(&shrinker_srcu); - debugfs_remove_recursive(debugfs_entry); + shrinker_debugfs_remove(debugfs_entry, debugfs_id); kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred); shrinker->nr_deferred = NULL; -- cgit