On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Alex Elder wrote:
> A recent change made changes to the rbd_client_list be protected by
> a spinlock. Unfortunately in rbd_put_client(), the lock is taken
> before possibly dropping the last reference to an rbd_client, and on
> the last reference that eventually calls flush_workqueue() which can
> sleep.
>
> The problem was flagged by a debug spinlock warning:
> BUG: spinlock wrong CPU on CPU#3, rbd/27814
>
> The solution is to move the spinlock acquisition and release inside
> rbd_client_release(), which is the spot where it's really needed for
> protecting the removal of the rbd_client from the client list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <el...@dreamhost.com>
> ---
> drivers/block/rbd.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c
> index 013c7a5..c1f7701 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/rbd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c
> @@ -450,7 +450,9 @@ static void rbd_client_release(struct kref *kref)
> struct rbd_client *rbdc = container_of(kref, struct rbd_client, kref);
>
> dout("rbd_release_client %p\n", rbdc);
> + spin_lock(&rbd_client_list_lock);
> list_del(&rbdc->node);
> + spin_unlock(&rbd_client_list_lock);
>
> ceph_destroy_client(rbdc->client);
> kfree(rbdc->rbd_opts);
> @@ -463,9 +465,7 @@ static void rbd_client_release(struct kref *kref)
> */
> static void rbd_put_client(struct rbd_device *rbd_dev)
> {
> - spin_lock(&rbd_client_list_lock);
> kref_put(&rbd_dev->rbd_client->kref, rbd_client_release);
> - spin_unlock(&rbd_client_list_lock);
> rbd_dev->rbd_client = NULL;
> }
This looks right to me. Let's get it into testing...
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <s...@newdream.net>
>
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