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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 badc28d492 ("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 f95bdb700b ("mm: vmscan: make global slab
shrink lockless") made the race condition more likely, though it existed
before then.
Commit badc28d492 ("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 20cd1892fc
("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: badc28d492 ("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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