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mm: shrinkers: fix race condition on debugfs cleanup
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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/20230503013232.299211-1-joanbrugueram@gmail.com
Fixes: badc28d ("mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs")
Signed-off-by: Joan Bruguera Micó <joanbrugueram@gmail.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Joan Bruguera Micó authored and Andrew Morton committed May 17, 2023
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13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions include/linux/shrinker.h
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Expand Up @@ -107,18 +107,27 @@ extern void synchronize_shrinkers(void);

#ifdef CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG
extern int shrinker_debugfs_add(struct shrinker *shrinker);
extern struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct shrinker *shrinker);
extern struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_detach(struct shrinker *shrinker,
int *debugfs_id);
extern void shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct dentry *debugfs_entry,
int debugfs_id);
extern int __printf(2, 3) shrinker_debugfs_rename(struct shrinker *shrinker,
const char *fmt, ...);
#else /* CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG */
static inline int shrinker_debugfs_add(struct shrinker *shrinker)
{
return 0;
}
static inline struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct shrinker *shrinker)
static inline struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_detach(struct shrinker *shrinker,
int *debugfs_id)
{
*debugfs_id = -1;
return NULL;
}
static inline void shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct dentry *debugfs_entry,
int debugfs_id)
{
}
static inline __printf(2, 3)
int shrinker_debugfs_rename(struct shrinker *shrinker, const char *fmt, ...)
{
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15 changes: 10 additions & 5 deletions mm/shrinker_debug.c
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Expand Up @@ -237,7 +237,8 @@ int shrinker_debugfs_rename(struct shrinker *shrinker, const char *fmt, ...)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrinker_debugfs_rename);

struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct shrinker *shrinker)
struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_detach(struct shrinker *shrinker,
int *debugfs_id)
{
struct dentry *entry = shrinker->debugfs_entry;

Expand All @@ -246,14 +247,18 @@ struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct shrinker *shrinker)
kfree_const(shrinker->name);
shrinker->name = NULL;

if (entry) {
ida_free(&shrinker_debugfs_ida, shrinker->debugfs_id);
shrinker->debugfs_entry = NULL;
}
*debugfs_id = entry ? shrinker->debugfs_id : -1;
shrinker->debugfs_entry = NULL;

return entry;
}

void shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct dentry *debugfs_entry, int debugfs_id)
{
debugfs_remove_recursive(debugfs_entry);
ida_free(&shrinker_debugfs_ida, debugfs_id);
}

static int __init shrinker_debugfs_init(void)
{
struct shrinker *shrinker;
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions mm/vmscan.c
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Expand Up @@ -805,6 +805,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_shrinker);
void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
{
struct dentry *debugfs_entry;
int debugfs_id;

if (!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_REGISTERED))
return;
Expand All @@ -814,13 +815,13 @@ void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
shrinker->flags &= ~SHRINKER_REGISTERED;
if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE)
unregister_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_remove(shrinker);
debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_detach(shrinker, &debugfs_id);
mutex_unlock(&shrinker_mutex);

atomic_inc(&shrinker_srcu_generation);
synchronize_srcu(&shrinker_srcu);

debugfs_remove_recursive(debugfs_entry);
shrinker_debugfs_remove(debugfs_entry, debugfs_id);

kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
shrinker->nr_deferred = NULL;
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