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audit: fix possible soft lockup in __audit_inode_child()
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Tracefs or debugfs maybe cause hundreds to thousands of PATH records,
too many PATH records maybe cause soft lockup.

For example:
  1. CONFIG_KASAN=y && CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n
  2. auditctl -a exit,always -S open -k key
  3. sysctl -w kernel.watchdog_thresh=5
  4. mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test

There may be a soft lockup as follows:
  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#45 stuck for 7s! [mkdir:15498]
  Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x30c
   show_stack+0x20/0x30
   dump_stack+0x11c/0x174
   panic+0x27c/0x494
   watchdog_timer_fn+0x2bc/0x390
   __run_hrtimer+0x148/0x4fc
   __hrtimer_run_queues+0x154/0x210
   hrtimer_interrupt+0x2c4/0x760
   arch_timer_handler_phys+0x48/0x60
   handle_percpu_devid_irq+0xe0/0x340
   __handle_domain_irq+0xbc/0x130
   gic_handle_irq+0x78/0x460
   el1_irq+0xb8/0x140
   __audit_inode_child+0x240/0x7bc
   tracefs_create_file+0x1b8/0x2a0
   trace_create_file+0x18/0x50
   event_create_dir+0x204/0x30c
   __trace_add_new_event+0xac/0x100
   event_trace_add_tracer+0xa0/0x130
   trace_array_create_dir+0x60/0x140
   trace_array_create+0x1e0/0x370
   instance_mkdir+0x90/0xd0
   tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x68/0xa0
   vfs_mkdir+0x21c/0x34c
   do_mkdirat+0x1b4/0x1d4
   __arm64_sys_mkdirat+0x4c/0x60
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xa8/0x240
   do_el0_svc+0x8c/0xc0
   el0_svc+0x20/0x30
   el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
   el0_sync+0x160/0x180

Therefore, we add cond_resched() to __audit_inode_child() to fix it.

Fixes: 5195d8e ("audit: dynamically allocate audit_names when not enough space is in the names array")
Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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gscui authored and pcmoore committed Aug 8, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -2456,6 +2456,8 @@ void __audit_inode_child(struct inode *parent,
}
}

cond_resched();

/* is there a matching child entry? */
list_for_each_entry(n, &context->names_list, list) {
/* can only match entries that have a name */
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