Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | NeilBrown <> | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:16:29 +1100 | Subject | [PATCH] fscache: fix race between enablement and dropping of object |
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It was observed that a process blocked indefintely in __fscache_read_or_alloc_page(), waiting for FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP to be cleared via fscache_wait_for_deferred_lookup().
At this time, ->backing_objects was empty, which would normaly prevent __fscache_read_or_alloc_page() from getting to the point of waiting. This implies that ->backing_objects was cleared *after* __fscache_read_or_alloc_page was was entered.
When an object is "killed" and then "dropped", FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP is cleared in fscache_lookup_failure(), then KILL_OBJECT and DROP_OBJECT are "called" and only in DROP_OBJECT is ->backing_objects cleared. This leaves a window where something else can set FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP and __fscache_read_or_alloc_page() can start waiting, before ->backing_objects is cleared
There is some uncertainty in this analysis, but it seems to be fit the observations. Adding the wake in this patch will be handled correctly by __fscache_read_or_alloc_page(), as it checks if ->backing_objects is empty again, after waiting.
Customer which reported the hang, also report that the hang cannot be reproduced with this fix.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> --- fs/fscache/object.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/fscache/object.c b/fs/fscache/object.c index 9edc920f651f..6d9cb1719de5 100644 --- a/fs/fscache/object.c +++ b/fs/fscache/object.c @@ -730,6 +730,9 @@ static const struct fscache_state *fscache_drop_object(struct fscache_object *ob if (awaken) wake_up_bit(&cookie->flags, FSCACHE_COOKIE_INVALIDATING); + if (test_and_clear_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP, &cookie->flags)) + wake_up_bit(&cookie->flags, FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP); + /* Prevent a race with our last child, which has to signal EV_CLEARED * before dropping our spinlock. -- 2.14.0.rc0.dirty [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
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