When a task executes a synchronous RPC call via __rpc_execute(), it waits
for the queued RPC task to wake up using out_of_line_wait_on_bit(). Callers
in subsystems such as NFS or NFSD (for example, write_ports() acquiring
nfsd_mutex during NFS server initialization and issuing an rpc_ping())
frequently hold locks across these synchronous RPC waits.
Historically, rpc_wait_bit_killable() invoked freezable_schedule_unsafe(),
which explicitly bypassed lockdep checks for held locks during freeze.
However, during the core freezer refactoring in commit f5d39b020809
("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic"), freezable_schedule_unsafe()
was removed, and callers were updated to pass freezer flags directly into
out_of_line_wait_on_bit(). While rpc_wait_for_completion_task() was
correctly updated to use TASK_KILLABLE | TASK_FREEZABLE_UNSAFE,
__rpc_execute() was mistakenly updated to use TASK_KILLABLE |
TASK_FREEZABLE without the unsafe flag.
As a result, if a system suspend occurs concurrently while a task is
waiting in __rpc_execute() with a lock held, __set_task_frozen() observes
p->lockdep_depth > 0 without __TASK_FREEZABLE_UNSAFE and triggers a lockdep
warning:
WARNING: kernel/freezer.c:139 at __set_task_frozen+0x260/0x340
Call Trace:
task_call_func+0x1aa/0x260 kernel/sched/core.c:4518
__freeze_task kernel/freezer.c:150 [inline]
freeze_task+0x216/0x390 kernel/freezer.c:169
try_to_freeze_tasks+0x190/0x620 kernel/power/process.c:54
freeze_processes+0xd0/0x1f0 kernel/power/process.c:137
suspend_prepare kernel/power/suspend.c:387 [inline]
enter_state kernel/power/suspend.c:609 [inline]
pm_suspend+0x2f1/0x760 kernel/power/suspend.c:644
state_store+0x206/0x290 kernel/power/main.c:819
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a5/0x540 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
vfs_write+0x61e/0xbb0 fs/read_write.c:687
ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Update __rpc_execute() to pass TASK_KILLABLE | TASK_FREEZABLE_UNSAFE to
out_of_line_wait_on_bit(). This restores the pre-regression behavior and
aligns __rpc_execute() with rpc_wait_for_completion_task(), avoiding the
false-positive lockdep warning when tasks holding locks are frozen during
synchronous RPC execution.
Fixes: f5d39b020809 ("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic")
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.8-flash Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview syzbot
Reported-by: syzbot+209eccd8f507de9f7f1b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=209eccd8f507de9f7f1b
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/ai_job?id=cb10c20b-f568-4900-8b09-dc937852ee3f
To: "Anna Schumaker"
To: "Chuck Lever"
To: "David S. Miller"
To: "Eric Dumazet"
To: "Jeff Layton"
To: "Jakub Kicinski"
To:
To:
To: "Paolo Abeni"
To: "Trond Myklebust"
To: "Peter Zijlstra"
Cc: "Dai Ngo"
Cc: "Simon Horman"
Cc:
Cc: "NeilBrown"
Cc: "Olga Kornievskaia"
Cc: "Tom Talpey"
---
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
index 016f16ca5..494947d50 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ static void __rpc_execute(struct rpc_task *task)
trace_rpc_task_sync_sleep(task, task->tk_action);
status = out_of_line_wait_on_bit(&task->tk_runstate,
RPC_TASK_QUEUED, rpc_wait_bit_killable,
- TASK_KILLABLE|TASK_FREEZABLE);
+ TASK_KILLABLE | TASK_FREEZABLE_UNSAFE);
if (status < 0) {
/*
* When a sync task receives a signal, it exits with
base-commit: 93f51579e7df248780214094418f205253383cc5
--
This is an AI-generated patch subject to moderation.
Reply with '#syz upstream' to Sign-off the patch as a human author
and send it to the upstream kernel mailing lists.
Reply with '#syz reject' to reject it ('#syz unreject' to undo).
See https://goo.gle/syzbot-ai-patches for information about AI-generated patches.
You can comment on the patch as usual, syzbot will try to address
the comments and send a new version of the patch if necessary.
syzbot engineers can be reached at syzkaller@googlegroups.com.