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| author | Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> | 2020-07-17 00:12:15 +0900 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-07-23 09:47:12 +0200 |
| commit | f867c771f98891841c217fa8459244ed0dd28921 (patch) | |
| tree | 91e49228001cc168006ae1877e5778608dbb080a /security/commoncap.c | |
| parent | b62e185184e9d210000fcf2af39aac52d73562c8 (diff) | |
binder: Don't use mmput() from shrinker function.
syzbot is reporting that mmput() from shrinker function has a risk of
deadlock [1], for delayed_uprobe_add() from update_ref_ctr() calls
kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) with delayed_uprobe_lock held, and
uprobe_clear_state() from __mmput() also holds delayed_uprobe_lock.
Commit a1b2289cef92ef0e ("android: binder: drop lru lock in isolate
callback") replaced mmput() with mmput_async() in order to avoid sleeping
with spinlock held. But this patch replaces mmput() with mmput_async() in
order not to start __mmput() from shrinker context.
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=bc9e7303f537c41b2b0cc2dfcea3fc42964c2d45
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+1068f09c44d151250c33@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+e5344baa319c9a96edec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4ba9adb2-43f5-2de0-22de-f6075c1fab50@i-love.sakura.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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