From: Tahsin Erdogan <tah...@google.com> If something goes wrong with an iscsi session, the problem is reported to giscsid via a netlink message. Then, giscsid tries to add a new device and destroy the old one. During old device destruction, the pending ios get completed with an error. Without destroying the device the io operations are stuck forever.
If dm shrinker is invoked with __GFP_IO, shrinker gets blocked waiting for the pending ios to complete. So, if the giscsid repair path ends up doing a memory allocation with __GFP_IO enabled, it could end up in a deadlock because the iscsi io cannot be completed until giscsid can do its job and giscsid cannot do its job until the io completes. Even worse, the deadlock can also occur even if giscsid avoids __GFP_IO in all paths. For instance, if giscsid tries to grab a mutex held by another thread and that thread invokes the shrinker we again may enter a deadlock. Here is a scenario stitched from multiple bugs that demonstrates how the deadlock can occur: iSCSI-write holding: rx_queue_mutex waiting: uevent_sock_mutex kobject_uevent_env+0x1bd/0x419 kobject_uevent+0xb/0xd device_add+0x48a/0x678 scsi_add_host_with_dma+0xc5/0x22d iscsi_host_add+0x53/0x55 iscsi_sw_tcp_session_create+0xa6/0x129 iscsi_if_rx+0x100/0x1247 netlink_unicast+0x213/0x4f0 netlink_sendmsg+0x230/0x3c0 iscsi_fail iscsi_conn_failure waiting: rx_queue_mutex schedule_preempt_disabled+0x325/0x734 __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x18b/0x230 mutex_lock+0x22/0x40 iscsi_conn_failure+0x42/0x149 worker_thread+0x24a/0xbc0 EventManager_ holding: uevent_sock_mutex waiting: dm_bufio_client->lock dm_bufio_lock+0xe/0x10 shrink+0x34/0xf7 shrink_slab+0x177/0x5d0 do_try_to_free_pages+0x129/0x470 try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0x14f/0x210 memcg_kmem_newpage_charge+0xa6d/0x13b0 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4a3/0x1a70 fallback_alloc+0x1b2/0x36c __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xb9/0x10d0 __alloc_skb+0x83/0x2f0 kobject_uevent_env+0x26b/0x419 dm_kobject_uevent+0x70/0x79 dev_suspend+0x1a9/0x1e7 ctl_ioctl+0x3e9/0x411 dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x17 do_vfs_ioctl+0xb3/0x460 SyS_ioctl+0x5e/0x90 MemcgReclaimerD" holding: dm_bufio_client->lock waiting: stuck io to finish (needs iscsi_fail thread to progress) schedule at ffffffffbd603618 io_schedule at ffffffffbd603ba4 do_io_schedule at ffffffffbdaf0d94 __wait_on_bit at ffffffffbd6008a6 out_of_line_wait_on_bit at ffffffffbd600960 wait_on_bit.constprop.10 at ffffffffbdaf0f17 __make_buffer_clean at ffffffffbdaf18ba __cleanup_old_buffer at ffffffffbdaf192f shrink at ffffffffbdaf19fd do_shrink_slab at ffffffffbd6ec000 shrink_slab at ffffffffbd6ec24a do_try_to_free_pages at ffffffffbd6eda09 try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages at ffffffffbd6ede7e mem_cgroup_resize_limit at ffffffffbd7024c0 mem_cgroup_write at ffffffffbd703149 cgroup_file_write at ffffffffbd6d9c6e sys_write at ffffffffbd6662ea system_call_fastpath at ffffffffbdbc34a2 Co-developed-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <kha...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <kha...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tah...@google.com> Co-developed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <kris...@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <kris...@collabora.com> --- drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 31 +++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c index 2d519c223562..4c4f80e894b6 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c @@ -1516,18 +1516,16 @@ static void drop_buffers(struct dm_bufio_client *c) * We may not be able to evict this buffer if IO pending or the client * is still using it. Caller is expected to know buffer is too old. * - * And if GFP_NOFS is used, we must not do any I/O because we hold - * dm_bufio_clients_lock and we would risk deadlock if the I/O gets - * rerouted to different bufio client. + * We must not do any I/O because we hold dm_bufio_clients_lock and we + * would risk deadlock if the I/O gets rerouted to different bufio + * client. */ -static bool __try_evict_buffer(struct dm_buffer *b, gfp_t gfp) +static bool __try_evict_buffer(struct dm_buffer *b) { - if (!(gfp & __GFP_FS)) { - if (test_bit(B_READING, &b->state) || - test_bit(B_WRITING, &b->state) || - test_bit(B_DIRTY, &b->state)) - return false; - } + if (test_bit(B_READING, &b->state) || + test_bit(B_WRITING, &b->state) || + test_bit(B_DIRTY, &b->state)) + return false; if (b->hold_count) return false; @@ -1549,8 +1547,7 @@ static unsigned long get_retain_buffers(struct dm_bufio_client *c) return retain_bytes; } -static unsigned long __scan(struct dm_bufio_client *c, unsigned long nr_to_scan, - gfp_t gfp_mask) +static unsigned long __scan(struct dm_bufio_client *c, unsigned long nr_to_scan) { int l; struct dm_buffer *b, *tmp; @@ -1561,7 +1558,7 @@ static unsigned long __scan(struct dm_bufio_client *c, unsigned long nr_to_scan, for (l = 0; l < LIST_SIZE; l++) { list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(b, tmp, &c->lru[l], lru_list) { - if (__try_evict_buffer(b, gfp_mask)) + if (__try_evict_buffer(b)) freed++; if (!--nr_to_scan || ((count - freed) <= retain_target)) return freed; @@ -1578,12 +1575,10 @@ dm_bufio_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc) unsigned long freed; c = container_of(shrink, struct dm_bufio_client, shrinker); - if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) - dm_bufio_lock(c); - else if (!dm_bufio_trylock(c)) + if (!dm_bufio_trylock(c)) return SHRINK_STOP; - freed = __scan(c, sc->nr_to_scan, sc->gfp_mask); + freed = __scan(c, sc->nr_to_scan); dm_bufio_unlock(c); return freed; } @@ -1811,7 +1806,7 @@ static void __evict_old_buffers(struct dm_bufio_client *c, unsigned long age_hz) if (!older_than(b, age_hz)) break; - if (__try_evict_buffer(b, 0)) + if (__try_evict_buffer(b)) count--; cond_resched(); -- 2.25.0 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel