On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 06:24:39PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
The following situation leads to deadlock:
[task 1] [task 2] [task 3] kill_fasync() mm_update_next_owner() copy_process() spin_lock_irqsave(&fa->fa_lock) read_lock(&tasklist_lock) write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) send_sigio() <IRQ> ... read_lock(&fown->lock) kill_fasync() ... read_lock(&tasklist_lock) spin_lock_irqsave(&fa->fa_lock) ...
Task 1 can't acquire read locked tasklist_lock, since there is already task 3 expressed its wish to take the lock exclusive. Task 2 holds the read locked lock, but it can't take the spin lock.
The patch makes queued_read_lock_slowpath() to give task 1 the same priority as it was an interrupt handler, and to take the lock
That re-introduces starvation scenarios. And the above looks like a proper deadlock that should be sorted by fixing the locking order.