Re: [PATCH] blk-mq: fix IO hang from sbitmap wakeup race

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on 1/11/2024 11:54 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> In blk_mq_mark_tag_wait(), __add_wait_queue() may be re-ordered
> with the following blk_mq_get_driver_tag() in case of getting driver
> tag failure.
> 
> Then in __sbitmap_queue_wake_up(), waitqueue_active() may not observe
> the added waiter in blk_mq_mark_tag_wait() and wake up nothing, meantime
> blk_mq_mark_tag_wait() can't get driver tag successfully.
> 
> This issue can be reproduced by running the following test in loop, and
> fio hang can be observed in < 30min when running it on my test VM
> in laptop.
> 
> 	modprobe -r scsi_debug
> 	modprobe scsi_debug delay=0 dev_size_mb=4096 max_queue=1 host_max_queue=1 submit_queues=4
> 	dev=`ls -d /sys/bus/pseudo/drivers/scsi_debug/adapter*/host*/target*/*/block/* | head -1 | xargs basename`
> 	fio --filename=/dev/"$dev" --direct=1 --rw=randrw --bs=4k --iodepth=1 \
>        		--runtime=100 --numjobs=40 --time_based --name=test \
>         	--ioengine=libaio
> 
> Fix the issue by adding one explicit barrier in blk_mq_mark_tag_wait(), which
> is just fine in case of running out of tag.
> 
> Apply the same pattern in blk_mq_get_tag() which should have same risk.
> 
> Reported-by: Changhui Zhong <czhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> BTW, Changhui is planning to upstream the test case to blktests.
> 
>  block/blk-mq-tag.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  block/blk-mq.c     | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq-tag.c b/block/blk-mq-tag.c
> index cc57e2dd9a0b..29f77cae8eb2 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq-tag.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq-tag.c
> @@ -179,6 +179,25 @@ unsigned int blk_mq_get_tag(struct blk_mq_alloc_data *data)
>  
>  		sbitmap_prepare_to_wait(bt, ws, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
>  
> +		/*
> +		 * Add one explicit barrier since __blk_mq_get_tag() may not
> +		 * imply barrier in case of failure.
> +		 *
> +		 * Order adding us to wait queue and the following allocating
> +		 * tag in  __blk_mq_get_tag().
> +		 *
> +		 * The pair is the one implied in sbitmap_queue_wake_up()
> +		 * which orders clearing sbitmap tag bits and
> +		 * waitqueue_active() in __sbitmap_queue_wake_up(), since
> +		 * waitqueue_active() is lockless
> +		 *
> +		 * Otherwise, re-order of adding wait queue and getting tag
> +		 * may cause __sbitmap_queue_wake_up() to wake up nothing
> +		 * because the waitqueue_active() may not observe us in wait
> +		 * queue.
> +		 */
> +		smp_mb();
> +
Hi Ming, thanks for the fix. I'm not sure if we should explicitly imply
a memory barrier here as prepare_to_wait variants normally imply a general
memory barrier (see section "SLEEP AND WAKE-UP FUNCTIONS " in [1]).
Wish this helps!

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt


>  		tag = __blk_mq_get_tag(data, bt);
>  		if (tag != BLK_MQ_NO_TAG)
>  			break;
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index fb29ff5cc281..54545a4792bf 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -1847,6 +1847,22 @@ static bool blk_mq_mark_tag_wait(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
>  	wait->flags &= ~WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE;
>  	__add_wait_queue(wq, wait);
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Add one explicit barrier since blk_mq_get_driver_tag() may
> +	 * not imply barrier in case of failure.
> +	 *
> +	 * Order adding us to wait queue and allocating driver tag.
> +	 *
> +	 * The pair is the one implied in sbitmap_queue_wake_up() which
> +	 * orders clearing sbitmap tag bits and waitqueue_active() in
> +	 * __sbitmap_queue_wake_up(), since waitqueue_active() is lockless
> +	 *
> +	 * Otherwise, re-order of adding wait queue and getting driver tag
> +	 * may cause __sbitmap_queue_wake_up() to wake up nothing because
> +	 * the waitqueue_active() may not observe us in wait queue.
> +	 */
> +	smp_mb();
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * It's possible that a tag was freed in the window between the
>  	 * allocation failure and adding the hardware queue to the wait
> 





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