vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2)
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:09:51 +0000 (13:09 +0100)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:15:30 +0000 (21:15 -0500)
The following test program from Dmitry can cause softlockups or RCU
stalls as it copies 1GB from tmpfs into eventfd and we don't have any
scheduling point at that path in sendfile(2) implementation:

        int r1 = eventfd(0, 0);
        int r2 = memfd_create("", 0);
        unsigned long n = 1<<30;
        fallocate(r2, 0, 0, n);
        sendfile(r1, r2, 0, n);

Add cond_resched() into __splice_from_pipe() to fix the problem.

CC: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/splice.c

index 22adbbe51e52cef273299aca1daa8ad35f4132f0..4cf700d50b4037e6c334b0647cdb81b816f9ef65 100644 (file)
@@ -891,6 +891,7 @@ ssize_t __splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct splice_desc *sd,
 
        splice_from_pipe_begin(sd);
        do {
+               cond_resched();
                ret = splice_from_pipe_next(pipe, sd);
                if (ret > 0)
                        ret = splice_from_pipe_feed(pipe, sd, actor);