Recently we found a softlock up problem in dm thin pool looking up btree caused by corrupted metadata: Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks CPU: 7 PID: 2669225 Comm: kworker/u16:3 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) Workqueue: dm-thin do_worker [dm_thin_pool] Call Trace: <IRQ> dump_stack+0x9c/0xd3 panic+0x35d/0x6b9 watchdog_timer_fn.cold+0x16/0x25 __run_hrtimer+0xa2/0x2d0 </IRQ> RIP: 0010:__relink_lru+0x102/0x220 [dm_bufio] __bufio_new+0x11f/0x4f0 [dm_bufio] new_read+0xa3/0x1e0 [dm_bufio] dm_bm_read_lock+0x33/0xd0 [dm_persistent_data] ro_step+0x63/0x100 [dm_persistent_data] btree_lookup_raw.constprop.0+0x44/0x220 [dm_persistent_data] dm_btree_lookup+0x16f/0x210 [dm_persistent_data] dm_thin_find_block+0x12c/0x210 [dm_thin_pool] __process_bio_read_only+0xc5/0x400 [dm_thin_pool] process_thin_deferred_bios+0x1a4/0x4a0 [dm_thin_pool] process_one_work+0x3c5/0x730 Following process may generate a broken btree mixed with fresh and stale nodes, which could let dm thin trapped into an infinite loop while looking up data block: Transaction 1: pmd->root = A, A->B->C // One path in btree pmd->root = X, X->Y->Z // Copy-up Transaction 2: X,Z is updated on disk, Y is written failed. // Commit failed, dm thin becomes read-only. process_bio_read_only dm_thin_find_block __find_block dm_btree_lookup(pmd->root) The pmd->root points to a broken btree, Y may contain stale node pointing to any block, for example X, which lets dm thin trapped into a dead loop while looking up Z. Fix it by setting pmd->root in __open_metadata(), so that dm thin will use last transaction's pmd->root if commit failed. Fetch a reproducer in [Link]. Linke: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216790 Fixes: 991d9fa02da0 ("dm: add thin provisioning target") Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c index 1a62226ac34e..26c42ee183ed 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c @@ -724,6 +724,15 @@ static int __open_metadata(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd) goto bad_cleanup_data_sm; } + /* + * For pool metadata opening process, root setting is redundant + * because it will be set again in __begin_transaction(). But dm + * pool aborting process really needs to get last transaction's + * root in case accessing broken btree. + */ + pmd->root = le64_to_cpu(disk_super->data_mapping_root); + pmd->details_root = le64_to_cpu(disk_super->device_details_root); + __setup_btree_details(pmd); dm_bm_unlock(sblock); -- 2.31.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel