On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:50:38AM +0100, 'Michal Hocko' via syzkaller-bugs wrote: > On Thu 11-02-21 11:22:25, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Thu 11-02-21 12:07:29, Hillf Danton wrote: > > I haven't received Hillf's email. > > [...] > > > Fix 71b565ceff37 ("ext4: drop ext4_kvmalloc()") by restoring the > > > GFP_NOFS introduced in dec214d00e0d ("ext4: xattr inode deduplication"). > > > > > > Note this may be the fix also to possible deadlock > > > Reported-by: syzbot+bfdded10ab7dcd750...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com > > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/000000000000563a0205bafb7...@google.com/ > > > > Please no. Ext4 is using scoping API to limit allocations to GFP_NOFS > > inside transactions. In this case something didn't work which seems like a > > lockdep bug at the first sight but I'll talk to mm guys about it. > > Definitely to problem doesn't seem to be in ext4. > > Agreed. kvmalloc(NOFS) is not even supported because vmalloc doesn't > support GFP_KERNEL incompatible requests.
Okay. I have created a new Smatch warning when people pass GFP_NOFS to kvmalloc() and friends. We'll see if it finds anything tomorrow. (We could probably find the same information with grep, but I run Smatch every day so it prevents future bugs). regards, dan carpenter