Hello!
So I think I finally kind of understand this other d_splice_alias problem
I've been having.
Imagine that we have a negative dentry in the cache.
Now we have two threads that are trying to open this file in parallel,
the fs is NFS, so atomic_open is defined, it's not a create, so
parent is locked in shared mode and they both enter first lookup_open
and then (because the dentry is negative) into nfs_atomic_open().
Now in nfs_atomic_open we have two threads that run alongside each other
trying to open this file and both fail (the code is with Al's earlier patch
for the other d_splice_alias problem).
inode = NFS_PROTO(dir)->open_context(dir, ctx, open_flags, &attr, opened);
if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
err = PTR_ERR(inode);
trace_nfs_atomic_open_exit(dir, ctx, open_flags, err);
put_nfs_open_context(ctx);
d_drop(dentry);
. . .
case -ENOTDIR:
goto no_open;
. . .
no_open:
res = nfs_lookup(dir, dentry, lookup_flags);
So they both do d_drop(), the dentry is now unhashed, and they both
dive into nfs_lookup().
There eventually they both call
res = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
And so the first lucky one continues on it's merry way with a hashed dentry,
but the other less lucky one ends up calling into d_splice_alias() with
dentry that's already hashed and hits the very familiar assertion.
I took a brief look into ceph and it looks like a very similar thing
might happen there with handle_reply() for two parallel replies calling into
ceph_fill_trace() and then splice_alias()->d_splice_alias(), since the
unhashed check it does is not under any locks, it's unsafe, so the problem
might be more generic than just NFS too.
So I wonder how to best fix this? Holding some sort of dentry lock across a call
into atomic_open in VFS? We cannot just make d_splice_alias() callers call with
inode->i_lock held because dentry might be negative.
I know this is really happening because I in fact have 3 threads doing the above
described race, one luckily passing through and two hitting the assertion:
PID: 2689619 TASK: ffff8800ca740540 CPU: 6 COMMAND: "ls"
#0 [ffff8800c6da3758] machine_kexec at ffffffff81042462
#1 [ffff8800c6da37b8] __crash_kexec at ffffffff811365ff
#2 [ffff8800c6da3880] __crash_kexec at ffffffff811366d5
#3 [ffff8800c6da3898] crash_kexec at ffffffff8113671b
#4 [ffff8800c6da38b8] oops_end at ffffffff81018cb4
#5 [ffff8800c6da38e0] die at ffffffff8101917b
#6 [ffff8800c6da3910] do_trap at ffffffff81015b92
#7 [ffff8800c6da3960] do_error_trap at ffffffff81015d8b
#8 [ffff8800c6da3a20] do_invalid_op at ffffffff810166e0
#9 [ffff8800c6da3a30] invalid_op at ffffffff8188c91e
[exception RIP: d_splice_alias+478]
RIP: ffffffff8128784e RSP: ffff8800c6da3ae8 RFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: ffff8800d8661ab8 RBX: ffff8800d3b6b178 RCX: ffff8800ca740540
RDX: ffffffff81382f09 RSI: ffff8800d3b6b178 RDI: ffff8800d8661ab8
RBP: ffff8800c6da3b20 R8: 0000000000000000 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff8800ca740540 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8800d6491600
R13: 0000000000000102 R14: ffff8800d39063d0 R15: 0000000000000000
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#10 [ffff8800c6da3b28] nfs_lookup at ffffffff8137cd1c
#11 [ffff8800c6da3b80] nfs_atomic_open at ffffffff8137ed61
#12 [ffff8800c6da3c30] lookup_open at ffffffff8127901a
#13 [ffff8800c6da3d50] path_openat at ffffffff8127bf15
#14 [ffff8800c6da3dd8] do_filp_open at ffffffff8127d9b1
#15 [ffff8800c6da3ee0] do_sys_open at ffffffff81269f90
#16 [ffff8800c6da3f40] sys_open at ffffffff8126a09e
#17 [ffff8800c6da3f50] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath at ffffffff8188aebc
RIP: 00007f92a76d4d20 RSP: 00007fff640c1160 RFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007f92a76d4d20
RDX: 000055c9f5be9f50 RSI: 0000000000090800 RDI: 000055c9f5bea1d0
RBP: 0000000000000000 R8: 000055c9f5bea340 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: 000055c9f5bea300 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007f92a800d6b0
R13: 000055c9f5bf3000 R14: 000055c9f5bea3e0 R15: 0000000000000000
ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000002 CS: 0033 SS: 002b
PID: 2689597 TASK: ffff880109b40bc0 CPU: 7 COMMAND: "ls"
#0 [ffff8800c07178e0] die at ffffffff8101914e
#1 [ffff8800c0717910] do_trap at ffffffff81015b92
#2 [ffff8800c0717960] do_error_trap at ffffffff81015d8b
#3 [ffff8800c0717a20] do_invalid_op at ffffffff810166e0
#4 [ffff8800c0717a30] invalid_op at ffffffff8188c91e
[exception RIP: d_splice_alias+478]
RIP: ffffffff8128784e RSP: ffff8800c0717ae8 RFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: ffff8800d8661ab8 RBX: ffff8800d3b6b178 RCX: ffff880109b40bc0
RDX: ffffffff81382f09 RSI: ffff8800d3b6b178 RDI: ffff8800d8661ab8
RBP: ffff8800c0717b20 R8: 0000000000000000 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff880109b40bc0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8800d6a29e40
R13: 0000000000000102 R14: ffff8800d39063d0 R15: 0000000000000000
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#5 [ffff8800c0717b28] nfs_lookup at ffffffff8137cd1c
#6 [ffff8800c0717b80] nfs_atomic_open at ffffffff8137ed61
#7 [ffff8800c0717c30] lookup_open at ffffffff8127901a
#8 [ffff8800c0717d50] path_openat at ffffffff8127bf15
#9 [ffff8800c0717dd8] do_filp_open at ffffffff8127d9b1
#10 [ffff8800c0717ee0] do_sys_open at ffffffff81269f90
#11 [ffff8800c0717f40] sys_open at ffffffff8126a09e
#12 [ffff8800c0717f50] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath at ffffffff8188aebc
RIP: 00007f5cef6f8d20 RSP: 00007ffcc98f87b0 RFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007f5cef6f8d20
RDX: 000055de64230f50 RSI: 0000000000090800 RDI: 000055de642311d0
RBP: 0000000000000000 R8: 000055de64231320 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: 000055de64231300 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007f5cf00316b0
R13: 000055de6423a000 R14: 000055de642313c0 R15: 0000000000000000
ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000002 CS: 0033 SS: 002b
The dentry is 0xffff8800d3b6b178 in both cases.
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