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Syzbot reported that page_symlink(), called by nilfs_symlink(), triggers memory reclamation involving the filesystem layer, which can result in circular lock dependencies among the reader/writer semaphore nilfs->ns_segctor_sem, s_writers percpu_rwsem (intwrite) and the fs_reclaim pseudo lock. This is because after commit21fc61c73c("don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem"), the gfp flags of the page cache for symbolic links are overwritten to GFP_KERNEL via inode_nohighmem(). This is not a problem for symlinks read from the backing device, because the __GFP_FS flag is dropped after inode_nohighmem() is called. However, when a new symlink is created with nilfs_symlink(), the gfp flags remain overwritten to GFP_KERNEL. Then, memory allocation called from page_symlink() etc. triggers memory reclamation including the FS layer, which may call nilfs_evict_inode() or nilfs_dirty_inode(). And these can cause a deadlock if they are called while nilfs->ns_segctor_sem is held: Fix this issue by dropping the __GFP_FS flag from the page cache GFP flags of newly created symlinks in the same way that nilfs_new_inode() and __nilfs_read_inode() do, as a workaround until we adopt nofs allocation scope consistently or improve the locking constraints. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241020050003.4308-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Fixes:21fc61c73c("don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem") Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com> Reported-by: syzbot+9ef37ac20608f4836256@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9ef37ac20608f4836256 Tested-by: syzbot+9ef37ac20608f4836256@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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