Re: [PATCH] libceph: must hold mutex for reset_changed_osds()

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On Thu, 16 May 2013, Sage Weil wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2013, Alex Elder wrote:
> > An osd client has a red-black tree describing its osds, and
> > occasionally we would get crashes due to one of these trees tree
> > becoming corrupt somehow.
> > 
> > The problem turned out to be that reset_changed_osds() was being
> > called without protection of the osd client request mutex.  That
> > function would call __reset_osd() for any osd that had changed, and
> > __reset_osd() would call __remove_osd() for any osd with no
> > outstanding requests, and finally __remove_osd() would remove the
> > corresponding entry from the red-black tree.  Thus, the tree was
> > getting modified without having any lock protection, and was
> > vulnerable to problems due to concurrent updates.
> > 
> > This appears to be the only osd tree updating path that has this
> > problem.  It can be fairly easily fixed by moving the call up
> > a few lines, to just before the request mutex gets dropped
> > in kick_requests().
> > 
> > This resolves:
> >     http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/5043
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Before you commit this, can you see if this applies cleanly to the stable 
trees?  If so, let's put the stable tag in the changelog and see if the 
automagic stable backport stuff works!

sage


> 
> 
> > ---
> >  net/ceph/osd_client.c |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/ceph/osd_client.c b/net/ceph/osd_client.c
> > index d5953b8..3a246a6 100644
> > --- a/net/ceph/osd_client.c
> > +++ b/net/ceph/osd_client.c
> > @@ -1675,13 +1675,13 @@ static void kick_requests(struct ceph_osd_client
> > *osdc, int force_resend)
> >  		__register_request(osdc, req);
> >  		__unregister_linger_request(osdc, req);
> >  	}
> > +	reset_changed_osds(osdc);
> >  	mutex_unlock(&osdc->request_mutex);
> > 
> >  	if (needmap) {
> >  		dout("%d requests for down osds, need new map\n", needmap);
> >  		ceph_monc_request_next_osdmap(&osdc->client->monc);
> >  	}
> > -	reset_changed_osds(osdc);
> >  }
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 1.7.9.5
> > 
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