Hi Trond, On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 02:01:34PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > We know that the socket autoclose cannot be queued after we've set > the XPRT_LOCKED bit, so the call to cancel_work_sync() is redundant. > In addition, it is causing lockdep to complain about a false ABA > lock dependency. > > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > net/sunrpc/xprt.c | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c > index e741ec2b4d8e..5f12fe145f02 100644 > --- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c > +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c > @@ -1464,7 +1464,6 @@ static void xprt_destroy(struct rpc_xprt *xprt) > rpc_destroy_wait_queue(&xprt->pending); > rpc_destroy_wait_queue(&xprt->sending); > rpc_destroy_wait_queue(&xprt->backlog); > - cancel_work_sync(&xprt->task_cleanup); This does not make the lockdep warning go away, actually the lockdep is triggered by the xs_destroy() cancel_work_sync() call but I do not know this code path so I can't really comment on it, let me know if there is any specific test I can carry out. Thanks for looking into this, Lorenzo Log: [ 6.223423] ====================================================== [ 6.229611] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected [ 6.235801] 4.14.0-rc4-00001-g8ee3d7b #64 Not tainted [ 6.240856] ------------------------------------------------------ [ 6.247044] kworker/1:0H/17 is trying to acquire lock: [ 6.252188] ((&task->u.tk_work)){+.+.}, at: [<ffff0000080e64cc>] process_one_work+0x1cc/0x3f0 [ 6.260836] but task is already holding lock: [ 6.266676] ("xprtiod"){+.+.}, at: [<ffff0000080e64cc>] process_one_work+0x1cc/0x3f0 [ 6.274531] which lock already depends on the new lock. [ 6.282723] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: [ 6.290217] -> #1 ("xprtiod"){+.+.}: [ 6.295292] lock_acquire+0x6c/0xb8 [ 6.299307] flush_work+0x188/0x270 [ 6.303321] __cancel_work_timer+0x120/0x198 [ 6.308119] cancel_work_sync+0x10/0x18 [ 6.312484] xs_destroy+0x34/0x58 [ 6.316324] xprt_destroy+0x7c/0x88 [ 6.320338] xprt_put+0x34/0x40 [ 6.324004] rpc_task_release_client+0x6c/0x80 [ 6.328976] rpc_release_resources_task+0x2c/0x38 [ 6.334210] __rpc_execute+0x9c/0x210 [ 6.338399] rpc_async_schedule+0x10/0x18 [ 6.342935] process_one_work+0x240/0x3f0 [ 6.347471] worker_thread+0x48/0x420 [ 6.351661] kthread+0x12c/0x158 [ 6.355416] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 [ 6.359514] -> #0 ((&task->u.tk_work)){+.+.}: [ 6.365372] __lock_acquire+0x12ec/0x14a8 [ 6.369908] lock_acquire+0x6c/0xb8 [ 6.373922] process_one_work+0x22c/0x3f0 [ 6.378459] worker_thread+0x48/0x420 [ 6.382648] kthread+0x12c/0x158 [ 6.386401] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 [ 6.390499] other info that might help us debug this: [ 6.398518] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 6.404445] CPU0 CPU1 [ 6.408978] ---- ---- [ 6.413511] lock("xprtiod"); [ 6.416571] lock((&task->u.tk_work)); [ 6.422938] lock("xprtiod"); [ 6.428521] lock((&task->u.tk_work)); [ 6.432364] *** DEADLOCK *** [ 6.438295] 1 lock held by kworker/1:0H/17: [ 6.442480] #0: ("xprtiod"){+.+.}, at: [<ffff0000080e64cc>] process_one_work+0x1cc/0x3f0 [ 6.450773] stack backtrace: [ 6.455138] CPU: 1 PID: 17 Comm: kworker/1:0H Not tainted 4.14.0-rc4-00001-g8ee3d7b #64 [ 6.463153] Hardware name: ARM Juno development board (r2) (DT) [ 6.469084] Workqueue: xprtiod rpc_async_schedule [ 6.473795] Call trace: [ 6.476246] [<ffff000008089430>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3c8 [ 6.481654] [<ffff00000808980c>] show_stack+0x14/0x20 [ 6.486715] [<ffff000008a01a30>] dump_stack+0xb8/0xf0 [ 6.491776] [<ffff0000081194ac>] print_circular_bug+0x224/0x3a0 [ 6.497706] [<ffff00000811a304>] check_prev_add+0x304/0x860 [ 6.503288] [<ffff00000811c8c4>] __lock_acquire+0x12ec/0x14a8 [ 6.509043] [<ffff00000811d144>] lock_acquire+0x6c/0xb8 [ 6.514276] [<ffff0000080e652c>] process_one_work+0x22c/0x3f0 [ 6.520031] [<ffff0000080e6738>] worker_thread+0x48/0x420 [ 6.525439] [<ffff0000080ed5bc>] kthread+0x12c/0x158 [ 6.530411] [<ffff000008084d48>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 [ 7.446907] systemd[1]: systemd 232 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN) [ 7.465397] systemd[1]: Detected architecture arm64. [ 7.487124] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <localhost.localdomain>. [ 8.016682] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket. [ 8.034382] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Control Socket. [ 8.053967] systemd[1]: Listening on Syslog Socket. [ 8.069953] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Kernel Socket. [ 8.089774] systemd[1]: Reached target Remote File Systems. [ 8.110534] systemd[1]: Created slice User and Session Slice. [ 8.130143] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Audit Socket. [ 8.781699] systemd-journald[1479]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1 [ 9.685766] sky2 0000:09:00.0 enp9s0: renamed from eth4 [ 9.778209] igb 0000:07:00.2 enp7s0f2: renamed from eth2 [ 9.802564] igb 0000:07:00.1 enp7s0f1: renamed from eth1 [ 9.822138] igb 0000:07:00.3 enp7s0f3: renamed from eth3 [ 9.838393] igb 0000:07:00.0 enp7s0f0: renamed from eth0 [ 54.271348] random: crng init done know this code path at all so I can't really comment on it, let me know if I c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html