From: Eric Biggers Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 05:54:41 +0000 (-0700) Subject: smack: use GFP_NOFS while holding inode_smack::smk_lock X-Git-Tag: v4.9.196~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1e4c7ce0a9b0bdd1e64f1e4fdd3b2c9395a90440;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git smack: use GFP_NOFS while holding inode_smack::smk_lock commit e5bfad3d7acc5702f32aafeb388362994f4d7bd0 upstream. inode_smack::smk_lock is taken during smack_d_instantiate(), which is called during a filesystem transaction when creating a file on ext4. Therefore to avoid a deadlock, all code that takes this lock must use GFP_NOFS, to prevent memory reclaim from waiting for the filesystem transaction to complete. Reported-by: syzbot+0eefc1e06a77d327a056@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/security/smack/smack_access.c b/security/smack/smack_access.c index 23e5808a0970b..e5d5c7fb2dace 100644 --- a/security/smack/smack_access.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_access.c @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ char *smk_parse_smack(const char *string, int len) if (i == 0 || i >= SMK_LONGLABEL) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - smack = kzalloc(i + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + smack = kzalloc(i + 1, GFP_NOFS); if (smack == NULL) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); @@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ struct smack_known *smk_import_entry(const char *string, int len) if (skp != NULL) goto freeout; - skp = kzalloc(sizeof(*skp), GFP_KERNEL); + skp = kzalloc(sizeof(*skp), GFP_NOFS); if (skp == NULL) { skp = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); goto freeout; diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c index 778f4e8c61ee1..589c1c2ae6db3 100644 --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static struct smack_known *smk_fetch(const char *name, struct inode *ip, if (!(ip->i_opflags & IOP_XATTR)) return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP); - buffer = kzalloc(SMK_LONGLABEL, GFP_KERNEL); + buffer = kzalloc(SMK_LONGLABEL, GFP_NOFS); if (buffer == NULL) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);