Commit 84c17543ab56 (ext4: move work from io_end to inode) triggered a
regression when running xfstest #270 when the file system is mounted
with dioread_nolock.
The problem is that after ext4_evict_inode() calls ext4_ioend_wait(),
this guarantees that last io_end structure has been freed, but it does
not guarantee that the workqueue structure, which was moved into the
inode by commit 84c17543ab56, is actually finished. Once
ext4_flush_completed_IO() calls ext4_free_io_end() on CPU #1, this
will allow ext4_ioend_wait() to return on CPU #2, at which point the
evict_inode() codepath can race against the workqueue code on CPU #1
accessing EXT4_I(inode)->i_unwritten_work to find the next item of
work to do.
Fix this by calling flush_work() if the work structure is still
pending in ext$_ioend_wait(). Also, move the call to
ext4_ioend_wait() until after truncate_inode_pages() and
filemap_write_and_wait() are called, to make sure all dirty pages have
been written back and flushed from the page cache first.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<c01dda6a>] cwq_activate_delayed_work+0x3b/0x7e
*pdpt = 0000000030bc3001 *pde = 0000000000000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in:
Pid: 6, comm: kworker/u:0 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc3-00013-g84c1754-dirty #91 Bochs Bochs
EIP: 0060:[<c01dda6a>] EFLAGS: 00010046 CPU: 0
EIP is at cwq_activate_delayed_work+0x3b/0x7e
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: f505fe54 EDX: 00000000
ESI: ed5b697c EDI: 00000006 EBP: f64b7e8c ESP: f64b7e84
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
CR0: 8005003b CR2: 00000000 CR3: 30bc2000 CR4: 000006f0
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
Process kworker/u:0 (pid: 6, ti=f64b6000 task=f64b4160 task.ti=f64b6000)
Stack:
f505fe00 00000006 f64b7e9c c01de3d7 f6435540 00000003 f64b7efc c01def1d
f6435540 00000002 00000000 0000008a c16d0808 c040a10b c16d07d8 c16d08b0
f505fe00 c16d0780 00000000 00000000 ee153df4 c1ce4a30 c17d0e30 00000000
Call Trace:
[<c01de3d7>] cwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x71/0xfb
[<c01def1d>] process_one_work+0x5d8/0x637
[<c040a10b>] ? ext4_end_bio+0x300/0x300
[<c01e3105>] worker_thread+0x249/0x3ef
[<c01ea317>] kthread+0xd8/0xeb
[<c01e2ebc>] ? manage_workers+0x4bb/0x4bb
[<c023a370>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x27/0x37
[<c0f1b4b7>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x1b/0x28
[<c01ea23f>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x71/0x71
Code: 01 83 15 ac ff 6c c1 00 31 db 89 c6 8b 00 a8 04 74 12 89 c3 30 db 83 05 b0 ff 6c c1 01 83 15 b4 ff 6c c1 00 89 f0 e8 42 ff ff ff <8b> 13 89 f0 83 05 b8 ff 6c c1
6c c1 00 31 c9 83
EIP: [<c01dda6a>] cwq_activate_delayed_work+0x3b/0x7e SS:ESP 0068:f64b7e84
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace a1923229da53d8a4 ]---
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 ++--
fs/ext4/page-io.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 65bbc93..15e0da1 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -185,8 +185,6 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
trace_ext4_evict_inode(inode);
- ext4_ioend_wait(inode);
-
if (inode->i_nlink) {
/*
* When journalling data dirty buffers are tracked only in the
@@ -216,6 +214,7 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
filemap_write_and_wait(&inode->i_data);
}
truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
+ ext4_ioend_wait(inode);
goto no_delete;
}
@@ -225,6 +224,7 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
if (ext4_should_order_data(inode))
ext4_begin_ordered_truncate(inode, 0);
truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
+ ext4_ioend_wait(inode);
if (is_bad_inode(inode))
goto no_delete;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 809b310..8a004a4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -50,11 +50,21 @@ void ext4_exit_pageio(void)
kmem_cache_destroy(io_page_cachep);
}
+/*
+ * Called by ext4_evict_inode() to make sure there are no pending I/O
+ * completion work left to do.
+ */
void ext4_ioend_wait(struct inode *inode)
{
wait_queue_head_t *wq = ext4_ioend_wq(inode);
wait_event(*wq, (atomic_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_ioend_count) == 0));
+ /*
+ * We need to make sure the work structure is finished before
+ * we let the inode get destroyed by ext4_evict_inode()
+ */
+ if (work_pending(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_unwritten_work))
+ flush_work(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_unwritten_work);
}
static void put_io_page(struct ext4_io_page *io_page)
--
1.7.12.rc0.22.gcdd159b
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