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authorMax Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>2025-04-29 20:58:27 +0200
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-05-02 14:21:26 +0200
commitd9ec73301099ec5975505e1c3effbe768bab9490 (patch)
tree7549fa142de4d6f2e5ecda8155d1ba0c774c5eda /fs/eventpoll.c
parent8b0ba61df5a1c44e2b3cf683831a4fc5e24ea99d (diff)
fs/eventpoll: fix endless busy loop after timeout has expired
After commit 0a65bc27bd64 ("eventpoll: Set epoll timeout if it's in the future"), the following program would immediately enter a busy loop in the kernel: ``` int main() { int e = epoll_create1(0); struct epoll_event event = {.events = EPOLLIN}; epoll_ctl(e, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, 0, &event); const struct timespec timeout = {.tv_nsec = 1}; epoll_pwait2(e, &event, 1, &timeout, 0); } ``` This happens because the given (non-zero) timeout of 1 nanosecond usually expires before ep_poll() is entered and then ep_schedule_timeout() returns false, but `timed_out` is never set because the code line that sets it is skipped. This quickly turns into a soft lockup, RCU stalls and deadlocks, inflicting severe headaches to the whole system. When the timeout has expired, we don't need to schedule a hrtimer, but we should set the `timed_out` variable. Therefore, I suggest moving the ep_schedule_timeout() check into the `timed_out` expression instead of skipping it. brauner: Note that there was an earlier fix by Joe Damato in response to my bug report in [1]. Fixes: 0a65bc27bd64 ("eventpoll: Set epoll timeout if it's in the future") Cc: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250429153419.94723-1-jdamato@fastly.com [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250429185827.3564438-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/eventpoll.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/eventpoll.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 4bc264b854c4..d4dbffdedd08 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -2111,9 +2111,10 @@ static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events,
write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);
- if (!eavail && ep_schedule_timeout(to))
- timed_out = !schedule_hrtimeout_range(to, slack,
- HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
+ if (!eavail)
+ timed_out = !ep_schedule_timeout(to) ||
+ !schedule_hrtimeout_range(to, slack,
+ HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
/*