syzbot was able to trigger rcu stalls by calling write() with large number of bytes.
Add a cond_resched() in the loop to avoid this. Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/23/1106 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Reported-by: syzbot+9436b02171ac0894d...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> Cc: linux-in...@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/input/mousedev.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/input/mousedev.c b/drivers/input/mousedev.c index e08228061bcdd2f97aaadece31d6c83eb7539ae5..412fa71245afe26a7a8ad75705566f83633ba347 100644 --- a/drivers/input/mousedev.c +++ b/drivers/input/mousedev.c @@ -707,6 +707,7 @@ static ssize_t mousedev_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, mousedev_generate_response(client, c); spin_unlock_irq(&client->packet_lock); + cond_resched(); } kill_fasync(&client->fasync, SIGIO, POLL_IN); -- 2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog