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[3.13.y-ckt,stable] Patch "vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2)" has been added to staging queue

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Kamal Mostafa Dec. 17, 2015, 12:36 a.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2)

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt32.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From b8852117284e995009435183c7f3d8bdf24b7615 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 13:09:51 +0100
Subject: 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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 fs/splice.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

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diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 4eef647..bef92b4 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -956,6 +956,7 @@  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);