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mm: shrinkers: fix race condition on debugfs cleanup
When something registers and unregisters many shrinkers, such as: for x in $(seq 10000); do unshare -Ui true; done Sometimes the following error is printed to the kernel log: debugfs: Directory '...' with parent 'shrinker' already present! This occurs since commit badc28d ("mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs") / v6.2: Since the call to `debugfs_remove_recursive` was moved outside the `shrinker_rwsem`/`shrinker_mutex` lock, but the call to `ida_free` stayed inside, a newly registered shrinker can be re-assigned that ID and attempt to create the debugfs directory before the directory from the previous shrinker has been removed. The locking changes in commit f95bdb7 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless") made the race condition more likely, though it existed before then. Commit badc28d ("mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs") could be reverted since the issue is addressed should no longer occur since the count and scan operations are lockless since commit 20cd189 ("mm: shrinkers: make count and scan in shrinker debugfs lockless"). However, since this is a contended lock, prefer instead moving `ida_free` outside the lock to avoid the race. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: badc28d ("mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs") Signed-off-by: Joan Bruguera Micó <[email protected]> Cc: Qi Zheng <[email protected]> Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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include/linux/shrinker.h

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@@ -107,18 +107,27 @@ extern void synchronize_shrinkers(void);
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#ifdef CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG
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extern int shrinker_debugfs_add(struct shrinker *shrinker);
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extern struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct shrinker *shrinker);
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extern struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_detach(struct shrinker *shrinker,
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int *debugfs_id);
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extern void shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct dentry *debugfs_entry,
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int debugfs_id);
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extern int __printf(2, 3) shrinker_debugfs_rename(struct shrinker *shrinker,
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const char *fmt, ...);
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#else /* CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG */
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static inline int shrinker_debugfs_add(struct shrinker *shrinker)
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{
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return 0;
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}
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static inline struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct shrinker *shrinker)
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static inline struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_detach(struct shrinker *shrinker,
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int *debugfs_id)
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{
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*debugfs_id = -1;
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return NULL;
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}
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static inline void shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct dentry *debugfs_entry,
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int debugfs_id)
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{
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}
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static inline __printf(2, 3)
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int shrinker_debugfs_rename(struct shrinker *shrinker, const char *fmt, ...)
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{

mm/shrinker_debug.c

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@@ -237,7 +237,8 @@ int shrinker_debugfs_rename(struct shrinker *shrinker, const char *fmt, ...)
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}
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrinker_debugfs_rename);
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struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct shrinker *shrinker)
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struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_detach(struct shrinker *shrinker,
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int *debugfs_id)
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{
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struct dentry *entry = shrinker->debugfs_entry;
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@@ -246,14 +247,18 @@ struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct shrinker *shrinker)
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kfree_const(shrinker->name);
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shrinker->name = NULL;
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if (entry) {
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ida_free(&shrinker_debugfs_ida, shrinker->debugfs_id);
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shrinker->debugfs_entry = NULL;
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}
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*debugfs_id = entry ? shrinker->debugfs_id : -1;
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shrinker->debugfs_entry = NULL;
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return entry;
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}
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void shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct dentry *debugfs_entry, int debugfs_id)
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{
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debugfs_remove_recursive(debugfs_entry);
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ida_free(&shrinker_debugfs_ida, debugfs_id);
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}
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static int __init shrinker_debugfs_init(void)
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{
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struct shrinker *shrinker;

mm/vmscan.c

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@@ -805,6 +805,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_shrinker);
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void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
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{
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struct dentry *debugfs_entry;
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int debugfs_id;
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if (!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_REGISTERED))
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return;
@@ -814,13 +815,13 @@ void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
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shrinker->flags &= ~SHRINKER_REGISTERED;
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if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE)
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unregister_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
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debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_remove(shrinker);
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debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_detach(shrinker, &debugfs_id);
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mutex_unlock(&shrinker_mutex);
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atomic_inc(&shrinker_srcu_generation);
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synchronize_srcu(&shrinker_srcu);
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debugfs_remove_recursive(debugfs_entry);
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shrinker_debugfs_remove(debugfs_entry, debugfs_id);
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kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
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shrinker->nr_deferred = NULL;

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