[PATCH 6.1.y] erofs: Fix detection of atomic context
COOLING6d
REVIEWED: 2 (0M)
From: Artem Dinaburg <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-22 20:05:08
Also in:
linux-mediatek, lkml, stable
Subsystem:
erofs file system, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers:
Gao Xiang, Chao Yu, Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds
2 review trailers.
From: Sandeep Dhavale <dhavale@google.com> [ Upstream commit 12d0a24afd9ea58e581ea64d64e066f2027b28d9 ] Current check for atomic context is not sufficient as z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio can be called under rcu lock from blk_mq_flush_plug_list(). See the stacktrace [1] In such case we should hand off the decompression work for async processing rather than trying to do sync decompression in current context. Patch fixes the detection by checking for rcu_read_lock_any_held() and while at it use more appropriate !in_task() check than in_atomic(). Background: Historically erofs would always schedule a kworker for decompression which would incur the scheduling cost regardless of the context. But z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio() may not always be in atomic context and we could actually benefit from doing the decompression in z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio() if we are in thread context, for example when running with dm-verity. This optimization was later added in patch [2] which has shown improvement in performance benchmarks. ============================================== [1] Problem stacktrace [name:core&]BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:291 [name:core&]in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1615, name: CpuMonitorServi [name:core&]preempt_count: 0, expected: 0 [name:core&]RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0 CPU: 7 PID: 1615 Comm: CpuMonitorServi Tainted: G S W OE 6.1.25-android14-5-maybe-dirty-mainline #1 Hardware name: MT6897 (DT) Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x108/0x15c show_stack+0x20/0x30 dump_stack_lvl+0x6c/0x8c dump_stack+0x20/0x48 __might_resched+0x1fc/0x308 __might_sleep+0x50/0x88 mutex_lock+0x2c/0x110 z_erofs_decompress_queue+0x11c/0xc10 z_erofs_decompress_kickoff+0x110/0x1a4 z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio+0x154/0x180 bio_endio+0x1b0/0x1d8 __dm_io_complete+0x22c/0x280 clone_endio+0xe4/0x280 bio_endio+0x1b0/0x1d8 blk_update_request+0x138/0x3a4 blk_mq_plug_issue_direct+0xd4/0x19c blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x2b0/0x354 __blk_flush_plug+0x110/0x160 blk_finish_plug+0x30/0x4c read_pages+0x2fc/0x370 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0xa4/0x23c page_cache_ra_order+0x290/0x320 do_sync_mmap_readahead+0x108/0x2c0 filemap_fault+0x19c/0x52c __do_fault+0xc4/0x114 handle_mm_fault+0x5b4/0x1168 do_page_fault+0x338/0x4b4 do_translation_fault+0x40/0x60 do_mem_abort+0x60/0xc8 el0_da+0x4c/0xe0 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xd4/0xfc el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4 [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210317035448.13921-1-huangjianan@oppo.com/ (local) Reported-by: Will Shiu <redacted> Suggested-by: Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sandeep Dhavale <dhavale@google.com> Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <redacted> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Mergnat <redacted> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230621220848.3379029-1-dhavale@google.com (local) Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <redacted> [ Backport to 6.1.y: the source change is unchanged; only its location in z_erofs_decompress_kickoff() differs. ] Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Artem Dinaburg <redacted> --- Hi Greg, Sasha, and EROFS maintainers, I am continuing backporting CVE fixes still missing from 6.1.y. This fix is inherited by v6.6 and every later mainline release, but 6.1.y still has the affected code. The target-specific adjustment is described in the bracketed note above. Could you please queue it for 6.1.y? Thanks, Artem Dinaburg CVE: CVE-2023-53231 Build: This patch was included in an x86_64 allmodconfig and CONFIG_WERROR=y build. It produced vmlinux and modules with no new warnings or errors. AI assistance: An LLM helped find, adapt, and validate this backport; I reviewed the patch and test output. fs/erofs/zdata.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/erofs/zdata.c b/fs/erofs/zdata.c
index 66c323cbdd73e1..49b7c77488415a 100644
--- a/fs/erofs/zdata.c
+++ b/fs/erofs/zdata.c@@ -1271,7 +1271,7 @@ static void z_erofs_decompress_kickoff(struct z_erofs_decompressqueue *io, if (atomic_add_return(bios, &io->pending_bios)) return; /* Use workqueue and sync decompression for atomic contexts only */ - if (in_atomic() || irqs_disabled()) { + if (!in_task() || irqs_disabled() || rcu_read_lock_any_held()) { queue_work(z_erofs_workqueue, &io->u.work); /* enable sync decompression for readahead */ if (sbi->opt.sync_decompress == EROFS_SYNC_DECOMPRESS_AUTO)
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