On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 09:19:03PM +0100, Nicolai Stange wrote: > Hi, > > Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 02:32:56PM -0400, Mike Marshall wrote: > > > > > [adding Nicolai to thread...] > > > > >> > >> Our debugfs code results in three files in /sys/kernel/debug/orangefs. > >> One of the files gets deleted (debugfs_remove'd) and re-created > >> (debugfs_create_file'd) the first time someone fires up the > >> user-space part of Orangefs after a reboot. > >> > >> We wondered what awful things might happen if someone was > >> reading the file across the delete/re-create, so I wrote a > >> program that opens the file, sleeps ten seconds and then > >> starts reading, and I fired up the Orangefs userspace part > >> during the sleep. I didn't see any problems there, we get > >> EIO when the read happens. > >> > >> But... really bad things happen if someone unloads the Orangefs > >> module after my test program does the open and before the read > >> starts. So I picked another debugfs-using-filesystem (f2fs) and > >> pointed my tester-program at /sys/kernel/debug/f2fs/status, and > >> the same bad thing happens there. > > [...] > > >> [ 1240.144316] Call Trace: > >> [ 1240.144450] [<ffffffff8122907f>] __fput+0xdf/0x1d0 > >> [ 1240.144704] [<ffffffff812291ae>] ____fput+0xe/0x10 > >> [ 1240.144962] [<ffffffff810b97de>] task_work_run+0x8e/0xc0 > >> [ 1240.145243] [<ffffffff8109b98e>] do_exit+0x2ae/0xae0 > > > Thank you very much for this detailed report! > > At least for the .../f2fs/status file, your splat at fput() can be > readily explained with the full proxy's releaser not being protected > against file removals in any way. > > Partly this is on purpose, c.f. the comment in full_proxy_release(). > > However, I should have at least tried to acquire a reference to the > owning module before accessing some static struct file_operations or > even calling some ->release() within it. Meh. > > The fix should be relatively trivial and I'll hopefully manage to > submit a patch tomorrow. > > May I add your (Mike Marshall's?) Reported-by? Did this patch ever show up? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
