Re: RFC: fixing kernel oops on interrupted COMMIT from nfs_commit_file

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On 04/13/2017 03:07 PM, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Trond Myklebust
> <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 14:00 -0400, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> Looking for suggestions on how to fix a kernel oops.
>>>
>>> It's possible that there is a ctrl-c when the COMMIT is send. In case
>>> of the COPY, it calls
>>> nfs_commit_file() which calls wait_on_commit() that is interrupted by
>>> the crtl-c and frees the nfs_page request. So when asynchronous
>>> COMMIT
>>> rpc comes back it tried to use the nfs_page request and gets the
>>> oops.
>>>
>>
>> Is that call to nfs_free_request() in nfs_commit_file() correct?
> 
> yes, nfs_commit_file() creates a new request via nfs_create_request()
> and in the end if calls nfs_free_request();
> 
>> It looks to me as if the same request will be freed in
>> nfs_commit_release_pages().
> 
> so nfs_commit_release_pages() thru the
> nfs_unlock_and_release_request() is going to call
> nfs_release_request() from req->wb_kref.. I'm not sure if this is
> setup(?) for the copy commit path?
> 
> Otherwise, it would have seem that we'd be doing a double free and I
> haven't seen that in testing (not that it can't be true)...

I haven't seen any double-free messages during my testing either, so I thought it was okay.  It's possible I'm wrong, though.  I wonder if this is something that memory poisoning can help figure out?

Anna

> 
> 
> 
>>
>> Anna?
>>
>> --
>> Trond Myklebust
>> Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData
>> trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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