Re: possible deadlock in console_unlock

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (02/16/19 14:36), Yao HongBo wrote:
> hi, sergey:
> 
> As shown in that link, https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/6/397
> 
> On the linux kernel 5.0-rc6, Syzkaller also hit 'possible deadlock in 
> console_unlock'
> bug for several times in my environment.
> 
> This solution fixes things for me. Do you have a plan to submit patches to
> solve this problem.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
>       __printk_safe_enter();
>       kmalloc(sizeof(struct tty_buffer) + 2 * size, GFP_ATOMIC);
>       __printk_safe_exit();

I would probably try the following:

---

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
index ec145a59f199..058d004dcbaa 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ static struct tty_buffer *tty_buffer_alloc(struct tty_port 
*port, size_t size)
           have queued and recycle that ? */
        if (atomic_read(&port->buf.mem_used) > port->buf.mem_limit)
                return NULL;
-       p = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tty_buffer) + 2 * size, GFP_ATOMIC);
+       p = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tty_buffer) + 2 * size,
+                   GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN);
        if (p == NULL)
                return NULL;