inode_smack::smk_lock is taken during smack_d_instantiate(), which is
called during a filesystem transaction when creating a file on ext4.
Therefore to avoid a deadlock, all code that takes this lock must use
GFP_NOFS, to prevent memory reclaim from waiting for the filesystem
transaction to complete.
Reported-by: syzbot+0eefc1e06a77d327a056@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
if (i == 0 || i >= SMK_LONGLABEL)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- smack = kzalloc(i + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ smack = kzalloc(i + 1, GFP_NOFS);
if (smack == NULL)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
if ((m & *cp) == 0)
continue;
rc = netlbl_catmap_setbit(&sap->attr.mls.cat,
- cat, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cat, GFP_NOFS);
if (rc < 0) {
netlbl_catmap_free(sap->attr.mls.cat);
return rc;
if (skp != NULL)
goto freeout;
- skp = kzalloc(sizeof(*skp), GFP_KERNEL);
+ skp = kzalloc(sizeof(*skp), GFP_NOFS);
if (skp == NULL) {
skp = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
goto freeout;
if (!(ip->i_opflags & IOP_XATTR))
return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
- buffer = kzalloc(SMK_LONGLABEL, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buffer = kzalloc(SMK_LONGLABEL, GFP_NOFS);
if (buffer == NULL)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);