Re: [PATCH v3 003/114] nfsd: wait to initialize work struct just prior to using it

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On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 01:21:21AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:11:34PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
> > IP: [<ffffffff810890b1>] process_one_work+0x31/0x500
> > PGD 0 
> > Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> > Modules linked in: nfsd auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfs_acl lockd sunrpc
> > CPU: 2 PID: 30 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Not tainted 3.16.0-rc2-00023-g30c1d16 #3051
> > Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
> > task: ffff88003d9cc810 ti: ffff88003d9d0000 task.ti: ffff88003d9d0000
> > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810890b1>]  [<ffffffff810890b1>] process_one_work+0x31/0x500
> > RSP: 0018:ffff88003d9d3d68  EFLAGS: 00010046
> > RAX: 0000000000000100 RBX: ffff88003d9caf80 RCX: dead000000200200
> > RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: ffff880031429b38 RDI: ffff88003d9caf80
> > RBP: ffff88003d9d3dd8 R08: ffff88003dcb7800 R09: 0000000001c40000
> > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000006b5b0 R12: ffff88003dcb7800
> > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff880031429b38 R15: ffff88003d9caf80
> > FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003fb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> > CR2: 0000000000000138 CR3: 0000000027744000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> > Stack:
> >  000000003d9d3d88 ffff88003dcb7818 ffff88003d9cafb0 ffff88003dcb7800
> >  ffff88003dcb7800 ffff88003dcb7800 ffff88003dcb7800 ffff88003d9cafb0
> >  ffff88003d9d3dd8 ffff88003dcb7800 ffff88003dcb7848 ffff88003d9cafb0
> > Call Trace:
> >  [<ffffffff81089b9b>] worker_thread+0x11b/0x4f0
> >  [<ffffffff81089a80>] ? init_pwq+0x190/0x190
> >  [<ffffffff81090ac4>] kthread+0xe4/0x100
> >  [<ffffffff810909e0>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70
> >  [<ffffffff81a4ca2c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> >  [<ffffffff810909e0>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70
> > Code: 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 49 89 f6 41 55 45 31 ed 41 54 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 48 48 8b 06 4c 8b 67 48 48 89 c2 30 d2 a8 04 4c 0f 45 ea <49> 8b 45 08 48 c7 45 b8 00 00 00 00 48 c7 45 c0 00 00 00 00 8b 
> > RIP  [<ffffffff810890b1>] process_one_work+0x31/0x500
> >  RSP <ffff88003d9d3d68>
> > CR2: 0000000000000008
> > 
> > and I'm suspicious of this:
> > 
> > > @@ -763,6 +764,8 @@ static void do_probe_callback(struct nfs4_client *clp)
> > >  
> > >  	cb->cb_ops = &nfsd4_cb_probe_ops;
> > >  
> > > +	INIT_WORK(&cb->cb_work, nfsd4_do_callback_rpc);
> > > +
> > >  	run_nfsd4_cb(cb);
> > >  }
> > 
> > This is called all over the place, possibly multiple times on the same
> > client, so we're calling INIT_WORK on something that may already be in
> > use--I doubt that's safe.
> > 
> > I'm backing out this patch for now.
> 
> If that's the case all of do_probe_callback seems very fishy to me, as
> it scrambles all over the callback structure.  I guess we need to move
> more of it to an init function then, and have different init functions
> for the different callbacks.

Taking a look....  It does look fishy, but those fields are constant, so
I don't see a bug.

In delegation recall case (nfsd4_cb_recall()) those fields aren't
constant, but we guarantee it's only called once.

--b.
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