On 2014/1/11 9:19, Srinivas Eeda wrote:
> From: Srinivas Eeda <seeda@srini.(none)>
>
> A tiny race between BAST and unlock message causes the NULL dereference.
>
> A node sends an unlock request to master and receives a response. Before
> processing the response it receives a BAST from the master. Since both
> requests
> are processed by different threads it creates a race. While the BAST is being
> processed, lock can get freed by unlock code.
>
> This patch makes bast to return immediately if lock is found but unlock is
> pending. The code should handle this race. We also have to fix master node to
> skip sending BAST after receiving unlock message.
>
> Below is the crash stack
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000048
> IP: [<ffffffffa015e023>] o2dlm_blocking_ast_wrapper+0xd/0x16
> [<ffffffffa034e3db>] dlm_do_local_bast+0x8e/0x97 [ocfs2_dlm]
> [<ffffffffa034f366>] dlm_proxy_ast_handler+0x838/0x87e [ocfs2_dlm]
> [<ffffffffa0308abe>] o2net_process_message+0x395/0x5b8 [ocfs2_nodemanager]
> [<ffffffffa030aac8>] o2net_rx_until_empty+0x762/0x90d [ocfs2_nodemanager]
> [<ffffffff81071802>] worker_thread+0x14d/0x1ed
>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Eeda <srinivas.e...@oracle.com>
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmast.c | 9 +++++++--
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmast.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmast.c
> index b46278f..dbc6cee 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmast.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmast.c
> @@ -385,8 +385,13 @@ int dlm_proxy_ast_handler(struct o2net_msg *msg, u32
> len, void *data,
> head = &res->granted;
>
> list_for_each_entry(lock, head, list) {
> - if (lock->ml.cookie == cookie)
> - goto do_ast;
> + /* if lock is found but unlock is pending ignore the bast */
> + if (lock->ml.cookie == cookie) {
> + if (lock->unlock_pending)
> + break;
> + else
> + goto do_ast;
> + }
> }
>
> mlog(0, "Got %sast for unknown lock! cookie=%u:%llu, name=%.*s, "
>
I found you sent a version on Jan 30, 2012.
https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2012-January/008469.html
Compared with the old version, this version only saves a little bit CPU,
am I right?
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