On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:05 PM Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 06:08:21PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
A multithreaded namespace creation/destruction stress test currently deadlocks with the following lockup signature:
INFO: task ndctl:2924 blocked for more than 122 seconds. Tainted: G OE 5.2.0-rc4+ #3382 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. ndctl D 0 2924 1176 0x00000000 Call Trace: ? __schedule+0x27e/0x780 schedule+0x30/0xb0 wait_nvdimm_bus_probe_idle+0x8a/0xd0 [libnvdimm] ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80 uuid_store+0xe6/0x2e0 [libnvdimm] kernfs_fop_write+0xf0/0x1a0 vfs_write+0xb7/0x1b0 ksys_write+0x5c/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x60/0x240
INFO: task ndctl:2923 blocked for more than 122 seconds. Tainted: G OE 5.2.0-rc4+ #3382 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. ndctl D 0 2923 1175 0x00000000 Call Trace: ? __schedule+0x27e/0x780 ? __mutex_lock+0x489/0x910 schedule+0x30/0xb0 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x11/0x20 __mutex_lock+0x48e/0x910 ? nvdimm_namespace_common_probe+0x95/0x4d0 [libnvdimm] ? __lock_acquire+0x23f/0x1710 ? nvdimm_namespace_common_probe+0x95/0x4d0 [libnvdimm] nvdimm_namespace_common_probe+0x95/0x4d0 [libnvdimm] __dax_pmem_probe+0x5e/0x210 [dax_pmem_core] ? nvdimm_bus_probe+0x1d0/0x2c0 [libnvdimm] dax_pmem_probe+0xc/0x20 [dax_pmem] nvdimm_bus_probe+0x90/0x2c0 [libnvdimm] really_probe+0xef/0x390 driver_probe_device+0xb4/0x100In this sequence an 'nd_dax' device is being probed and trying to take the lock on its backing namespace to validate that the 'nd_dax' device indeed has exclusive access to the backing namespace. Meanwhile, another thread is trying to update the uuid property of that same backing namespace. So one thread is in the probe path trying to acquire the lock, and the other thread has acquired the lock and tries to flush the probe path.
Fix this deadlock by not holding the namespace device_lock over the wait_nvdimm_bus_probe_idle() synchronization step. In turn this requires the device_lock to be held on entry to wait_nvdimm_bus_probe_idle() and subsequently dropped internally to wait_nvdimm_bus_probe_idle().
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: bf9bccc14c05 ("libnvdimm: pmem label sets and namespace instantiation") Cc: Vishal Verma vishal.l.verma@intel.com Tested-by: Jane Chu jane.chu@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com
Hi Dan,
The way these patches are split, when we take them to stable this patch won't apply because it wants "libnvdimm/bus: Prepare the nd_ioctl() path to be re-entrant".
If you were to send another iteration of this patchset, could you please re-order the patches so they will apply cleanly to stable? this will help with reducing mail exchanges later on and possibly a mis-merge into stable.
If not, this should serve as a reference for future us to double check the backport.
Oh we should backport all of them. I'll tag that one for -stable as well. It's a hard pre-requisite for the fix.