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SubjectRe: [PATCH] blktrace: fix race with open trace files and directory removal
On 9/27/13 2:43 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> writes:
>
>> There's a bug in the blktrace client where it will stop and tear down
>> all of the tracing instances for devices it's opened whether it
>> successfully completed the setup or not.
>>
>> By starting multiple blktrace processes on the same device, it's possible
>> to permanently disable blktrace on that device. The cause is that when
>> the first blktrace process to exit tears down the directory structure,
>> the trace files are still held open. Debugfs removes the dentries for the
>> open files just fine but the relay implementation doesn't remove the
>> dentries until all of the references to the file are dropped. This means
>> that if there are open files when debugfs_remove is called for the device
>> directory, the directory is not empty and can't be removed. Since the
>> shutdown of the blktrace structure xchg's the structure out, there's no
>> way to clean up the directory and any new blktrace processes will fail
>> to start because it can't create the directory.
>>
>> This patch adds a kref to blk_trace so that we can release it after the
>> initial reference as well as all of the references accumulated by the
>> relay files are dropped.
>
> Can't we just do proper unwinding of errors in the do_blktrace_setup
> function? In other words, don't just blindly call blk_trace_free, but
> instead just undo anything we've done.

No. It's not the setup that's causing the problem. It's one process
holding the trace files open while another process calls BLKTRACETEARDOWN.

-Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs

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