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Eric Biggers authored
Without any form of coordination, any case where multiple allocations from the same mempool are needed at a time to make forward progress can deadlock under memory pressure. This is the case for struct bio_post_read_ctx, as one can be allocated to decrypt a Merkle tree page during fsverity_verify_bio(), which itself is running from a post-read callback for a data bio which has its own struct bio_post_read_ctx. Fix this by freeing first bio_post_read_ctx before calling fsverity_verify_bio(). This works because verity (if enabled) is always the last post-read step. This deadlock can be reproduced by trying to read from an encrypted verity file after reducing NUM_PREALLOC_POST_READ_CTXS to 1 and patching mempool_alloc() to pretend that pool->alloc() always fails. Note that since NUM_PREALLOC_POST_READ_CTXS is actually 128, to actually hit this bug in practice would require reading from lots of encrypted verity files at the same time. But it's theoretically possible, as N available objects doesn't guarantee forward progress when > N/2 threads each need 2 objects at a time. Fixes: 95ae251f ("f2fs: add fs-verity support") Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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