vfs: Fix potential circular locking through setxattr() and removexattr()
When using cachefiles, lockdep may emit something similar to the circular locking dependency notice below. The problem appears to stem from the following: (1) Cachefiles manipulates xattrs on the files in its cache when called from ->writepages(). (2) The setxattr() and removexattr() system call handlers get the name (and value) from userspace after taking the sb_writers lock, putting accesses of the vma->vm_lock and mm->mmap_lock inside of that. (3) The afs filesystem uses a per-inode lock to prevent multiple revalidation RPCs and in writeback vs truncate to prevent parallel operations from deadlocking against the server on one side and local page locks on the other. Fix this by moving the getting of the name and value in {get,remove}xattr() outside of the sb_writers lock. This also has the minor benefits that we don't need to reget these in the event of a retry and we never try to take the sb_writers lock in the event we can't pull the name and value into the kernel. Alternative approaches that might fix this include moving the dispatch of a write to the cache off to a workqueue or trying to do without the validation lock in afs. Note that this might also affect other filesystems that use netfslib and/or cachefiles. ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 6.10.0-build2+ #956 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ fsstress/6050 is trying to acquire lock: ffff888138fd82f0 (mapping.invalidate_lock#3){++++}-{3:3}, at: filemap_fault+0x26e/0x8b0 but task is already holding lock: ffff888113f26d18 (&vma->vm_lock->lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: lock_vma_under_rcu+0x165/0x250 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #4 (&vma->vm_lock->lock){++++}-{3:3}: __lock_acquire+0xaf0/0xd80 lock_acquire.part.0+0x103/0x280 down_write+0x3b/0x50 vma_start_write+0x6b/0xa0 vma_link+0xcc/0x140 insert_vm_struct+0xb7/0xf0 alloc_bprm+0x2c1/0x390 kernel_execve+0x65/0x1a0 call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x14d/0x190 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x40 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 -> #3 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}: __lock_acquire+0xaf0/0xd80 lock_acquire.part.0+0x103/0x280 __might_fault+0x7c/0xb0 strncpy_from_user+0x25/0x160 removexattr+0x7f/0x100 __do_sys_fremovexattr+0x7e/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x9f/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e -> #2 (sb_writers#14){.+.+}-{0:0}: __lock_acquire+0xaf0/0xd80 lock_acquire.part.0+0x103/0x280 percpu_down_read+0x3c/0x90 vfs_iocb_iter_write+0xe9/0x1d0 __cachefiles_write+0x367/0x430 cachefiles_issue_write+0x299/0x2f0 netfs_advance_write+0x117/0x140 netfs_write_folio.isra.0+0x5ca/0x6e0 netfs_writepages+0x230/0x2f0 afs_writepages+0x4d/0x70 do_writepages+0x1e8/0x3e0 filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x84/0xa0 __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xa8/0xf0 file_write_and_wait_range+0x59/0x90 afs_release+0x10f/0x270 __fput+0x25f/0x3d0 __do_sys_close+0x43/0x70 do_syscall_64+0x9f/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e -> #1 (&vnode->validate_lock){++++}-{3:3}: __lock_acquire+0xaf0/0xd80 lock_acquire.part.0+0x103/0x280 down_read+0x95/0x200 afs_writepages+0x37/0x70 do_writepages+0x1e8/0x3e0 filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x84/0xa0 filemap_invalidate_inode+0x167/0x1e0 netfs_unbuffered_write_iter+0x1bd/0x2d0 vfs_write+0x22e/0x320 ksys_write+0xbc/0x130 do_syscall_64+0x9f/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e -> #0 (mapping.invalidate_lock#3){++++}-{3:3}: check_noncircular+0x119/0x160 check_prev_add+0x195/0x430 __lock_acquire+0xaf0/0xd80 lock_acquire.part.0+0x103/0x280 down_read+0x95/0x200 filemap_fault+0x26e/0x8b0 __do_fault+0x57/0xd0 do_pte_missing+0x23b/0x320 __handle_mm_fault+0x2d4/0x320 handle_mm_fault+0x14f/0x260 do_user_addr_fault+0x2a2/0x500 exc_page_fault+0x71/0x90 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 other info that might help us debug this: Chain exists of: mapping.invalidate_lock#3 --> &mm->mmap_lock --> &vma->vm_lock->lock Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- rlock(&vma->vm_lock->lock); lock(&mm->mmap_lock); lock(&vma->vm_lock->lock); rlock(mapping.invalidate_lock#3); *** DEADLOCK *** 1 lock held by fsstress/6050: #0: ffff888113f26d18 (&vma->vm_lock->lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: lock_vma_under_rcu+0x165/0x250 stack backtrace: CPU: 0 PID: 6050 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.10.0-build2+ #956 Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x80 check_noncircular+0x119/0x160 ? queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x4be/0x510 ? __pfx_check_noncircular+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10 ? mark_lock+0x47/0x160 ? init_chain_block+0x9c/0xc0 ? add_chain_block+0x84/0xf0 check_prev_add+0x195/0x430 __lock_acquire+0xaf0/0xd80 ? __pfx___lock_acquire+0x10/0x10 ? __lock_release.isra.0+0x13b/0x230 lock_acquire.part.0+0x103/0x280 ? filemap_fault+0x26e/0x8b0 ? __pfx_lock_acquire.part.0+0x10/0x10 ? rcu_is_watching+0x34/0x60 ? lock_acquire+0xd7/0x120 down_read+0x95/0x200 ? filemap_fault+0x26e/0x8b0 ? __pfx_down_read+0x10/0x10 ? __filemap_get_folio+0x25/0x1a0 filemap_fault+0x26e/0x8b0 ? __pfx_filemap_fault+0x10/0x10 ? find_held_lock+0x7c/0x90 ? __pfx___lock_release.isra.0+0x10/0x10 ? __pte_offset_map+0x99/0x110 __do_fault+0x57/0xd0 do_pte_missing+0x23b/0x320 __handle_mm_fault+0x2d4/0x320 ? __pfx___handle_mm_fault+0x10/0x10 handle_mm_fault+0x14f/0x260 do_user_addr_fault+0x2a2/0x500 exc_page_fault+0x71/0x90 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2136178.1721725194@warthog.procyon.org.uk cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org [brauner: fix minor issues] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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