Re: [PATCH v3] kernel/watch_queue: Make pipe NULL while clearing watch_queue
From: Siddh Raman Pant <hidden>
Date: 2022-08-01 18:50:00
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On Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:46:42 +0530 Dipanjan Das [off-list ref] wrote:
Are you referring to the reproducer attached to our original report? https://lore.kernel.org/all/CANX2M5bHye2ZEEhEV6PUj1kYL2KdWYeJtgXw8KZRzwrNpLYz+A@mail.gmail.com/ (local)
Yes, I meant the reproducer you gave. I suspect I must have missed CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE=y while setting the kernel up, extremely sorry for it. I now tried 5.10.y with it (using a modification of syzkaller's dashboard config I had been using[1]), and I'm getting a __post_watch_notification() crash (which is a related crash, as the fix[2][3] for that causes the reproducer to not reproduce the post_one_notification crash on mainline), but not the post_one_notification() crash you had reported. It seems if I apply my patch, it doesn't trigger this related crash, so these bugs are seem to be very related maybe due to racing? I haven't looked at that yet. I then tried on v5.10.131 since that was the exact version you had reproduced on, and it reproduces the post_one_notification() error successfully. Applying 353f7988dd84 causes __post_watch_notification() crash, and then applying this v3 patch does not trigger the issue, but the patch to fix __post_watch_notification() crash is [2], which does not really address the issue of post_one_notification() crash which is due to the dangling reference to a freed pipe. Can you please try reproducer at your end? Thanks, Siddh [1] https://gist.github.com/siddhpant/06c7d64ca83273f0fd6604e4677f7c0d [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e64ab2dbd882933b65cd82ff6235d705ad65dbb6 [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/18259769e5e.52eb2082293078.3991591702430862151@siddh.me/ (local)