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Tetsuo Handa f867c771f9 binder: Don't use mmput() from shrinker function.
syzbot is reporting that mmput() from shrinker function has a risk of
deadlock [1], for delayed_uprobe_add() from update_ref_ctr() calls
kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) with delayed_uprobe_lock held, and
uprobe_clear_state() from __mmput() also holds delayed_uprobe_lock.

Commit a1b2289cef ("android: binder: drop lru lock in isolate
callback") replaced mmput() with mmput_async() in order to avoid sleeping
with spinlock held. But this patch replaces mmput() with mmput_async() in
order not to start __mmput() from shrinker context.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=bc9e7303f537c41b2b0cc2dfcea3fc42964c2d45

Reported-by: syzbot <[email protected]>
Reported-by: syzbot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Todd Kjos <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
2020-07-23 09:47:12 +02:00
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