vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2)

commit c2489e07c0a71a56fb2c84bc0ee66cddfca7d068 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 81df1584122c28c1b987b8ce8278946a783ba5ba..71c80f449f91190cd819cf8a26d408c4ca7d4ff5 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -957,6 +957,7 @@ 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);