Re: NFSroot hangs with bad unlock balance in Linux next

* Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] [160509 07:16]:

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 03:16:29PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

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Very strange.  We grab that rwsem at the entry into nfs_call_unlink()
and then either release it there and return or call nfs_do_call_unlink().
Which arranges for eventual call of nfs_async_unlink_release() (via
->rpc_release); nfs_async_unlink_release() releases the rwsem.  Nobody else
releases it (on the read side, that is).

The only kinda-sorta possibility I see here is that the inode we are
unlocking in that nfs_async_unlink_release() is not the one we'd locked
in nfs_call_unlink() that has lead to it.  That really shouldn't happen,
though...  Just to verify whether that's what we are hitting, could you
try to reproduce that thing with the patch below on top of -next and see
if it triggers any of those WARN_ON?

Thanks no warnings with that patch though.

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D'oh...  Lockdep warnings are easy to trigger (and, AFAICS, bogus).
up_read/down_read in fs/nfs/unlink.c should be replaced with
up_read_non_owner/down_read_non_owner, lest the lockdep gets confused.
Hangs are different - I've no idea what's triggering those.  I've seen
something similar on that -next, but not on work.lookups.

The joy of bisecting -next...  <a couple of hours later>
9317bb69824ec8d078b0b786b6971aedb0af3d4f is the first bad commit
commit 9317bb69824ec8d078b0b786b6971aedb0af3d4f
Author: Eric Dumazet [off-list ref]
Date:   Mon Apr 25 10:39:32 2016 -0700

    net: SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE optimizations

Reverting changes to sk_set_bit/sk_clear_bit gets rid of the hangs.  Plain
revert gives a conflict, since there had been additional change in
"net: SOCKWQ_ASYNC_WAITDATA optimizations"; removing both fixed the hangs.

Note that hangs appear without any fs/nfs/unlink.c modifications being
there.  When the hang happens it affects NFS traffic; ssh session still
works fine until it steps on a filesystem operation on NFS (i.e. you
can use builtins, access procfs, etc.)

Yeah, the issue was reported last week (
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg375777.html ),
and I could not convince myself to add a new sock flag,  like
SOCK_FASYNC_STICKY.

(Just in case NFS would ever call sock_fasync() with an empty
fasync_list, and SOCK_FASYNC would be cleared again.

Yeah applying the test patch from the url above makes things work
for me again.

Regards,

Tony
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