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Eric Biggers aef81b0ffd xfs: clear PF_MEMALLOC before exiting xfsaild thread
commit 10a98cb16d upstream.

Leaving PF_MEMALLOC set when exiting a kthread causes it to remain set
during do_exit().  That can confuse things.  In particular, if BSD
process accounting is enabled, then do_exit() writes data to an
accounting file.  If that file has FS_SYNC_FL set, then this write
occurs synchronously and can misbehave if PF_MEMALLOC is set.

For example, if the accounting file is located on an XFS filesystem,
then a WARN_ON_ONCE() in iomap_do_writepage() is triggered and the data
doesn't get written when it should.  Or if the accounting file is
located on an ext4 filesystem without a journal, then a WARN_ON_ONCE()
in ext4_write_inode() is triggered and the inode doesn't get written.

Fix this in xfsaild() by using the helper functions to save and restore
PF_MEMALLOC.

This can be reproduced as follows in the kvm-xfstests test appliance
modified to add the 'acct' Debian package, and with kvm-xfstests's
recommended kconfig modified to add CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y:

        mkfs.xfs -f /dev/vdb
        mount /vdb
        touch /vdb/file
        chattr +S /vdb/file
        accton /vdb/file
        mkfs.xfs -f /dev/vdc
        mount /vdc
        umount /vdc

It causes:
	WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 336 at fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:1534
	CPU: 1 PID: 336 Comm: xfsaild/vdc Not tainted 5.6.0-rc5 #3
	Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20191223_100556-anatol 04/01/2014
	RIP: 0010:iomap_do_writepage+0x16b/0x1f0 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:1534
	[...]
	Call Trace:
	 write_cache_pages+0x189/0x4d0 mm/page-writeback.c:2238
	 iomap_writepages+0x1c/0x33 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:1642
	 xfs_vm_writepages+0x65/0x90 fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c:578
	 do_writepages+0x41/0xe0 mm/page-writeback.c:2344
	 __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xd2/0x120 mm/filemap.c:421
	 file_write_and_wait_range+0x71/0xc0 mm/filemap.c:760
	 xfs_file_fsync+0x7a/0x2b0 fs/xfs/xfs_file.c:114
	 generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:2867 [inline]
	 xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0x379/0x3b0 fs/xfs/xfs_file.c:691
	 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1901 [inline]
	 new_sync_write+0x130/0x1d0 fs/read_write.c:483
	 __kernel_write+0x54/0xe0 fs/read_write.c:515
	 do_acct_process+0x122/0x170 kernel/acct.c:522
	 slow_acct_process kernel/acct.c:581 [inline]
	 acct_process+0x1d4/0x27c kernel/acct.c:607
	 do_exit+0x83d/0xbc0 kernel/exit.c:791
	 kthread+0xf1/0x140 kernel/kthread.c:257
	 ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352

This bug was originally reported by syzbot at
https://lore.kernel.org/r/0000000000000e7156059f751d7b@google.com.

Reported-by: syzbot+1f9dc49e8de2582d90c2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-05-02 17:25:54 +02:00
arch bpf, x86_32: Fix incorrect encoding in BPF_LDX zero-extension 2020-05-02 17:25:53 +02:00
block block, bfq: fix use-after-free in bfq_idle_slice_timer_body 2020-04-17 10:48:42 +02:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: api - Fix race condition in crypto_spawn_alg 2020-02-11 04:34:05 -08:00
Documentation arm64: errata: Hide CTR_EL0.DIC on systems affected by Neoverse-N1 #1542419 2020-04-29 16:31:08 +02:00
drivers net/mlx5: Fix failing fw tracer allocation on s390 2020-05-02 17:25:53 +02:00
firmware Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:21:29 +01:00
fs xfs: clear PF_MEMALLOC before exiting xfsaild thread 2020-05-02 17:25:54 +02:00
include svcrdma: Fix leak of svc_rdma_recv_ctxt objects 2020-05-02 17:25:52 +02:00
init fork: fix some -Wmissing-prototypes warnings 2019-12-05 09:21:04 +01:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index 2020-04-29 16:31:13 +02:00
kernel perf/core: fix parent pid/tid in task exit events 2020-05-02 17:25:53 +02:00
lib lib/raid6: use vdupq_n_u8 to avoid endianness warnings 2020-04-23 10:30:15 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm: shmem: disable interrupt when acquiring info->lock in userfaultfd_copy path 2020-05-02 17:25:54 +02:00
net svcrdma: Fix leak of svc_rdma_recv_ctxt objects 2020-05-02 17:25:52 +02:00
samples vmalloc: fix remap_vmalloc_range() bounds checks 2020-04-29 16:31:27 +02:00
scripts kconfig: qconf: Fix a few alignment issues 2020-04-29 16:31:13 +02:00
security KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read 2020-04-29 16:31:23 +02:00
sound ASoC: wm8960: Fix wrong clock after suspend & resume 2020-05-02 17:25:50 +02:00
tools tools/vm: fix cross-compile build 2020-04-29 16:31:28 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-13 10:44:59 +02:00
virt x86/kvm: Cache gfn to pfn translation 2020-04-29 16:31:19 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 16:38:49 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.119 2020-04-29 16:31:35 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.