On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 17:21 -0500, Scott Mayhew wrote: > The following deadlock can occur between a process waiting for a > client > to initialize in while walking the client list during nfsv4 server > trunking > detection and another process waiting for the nfs_clid_init_mutex so > it > can initialize that client: > > Process 1 Process 2 > --------- --------- > spin_lock(&nn->nfs_client_lock); > list_add_tail(&CLIENTA->cl_share_link, > &nn->nfs_client_list); > spin_unlock(&nn->nfs_client_lock); > spin_lock(&nn- > >nfs_client_lock); > list_add_tail(&CLIENTB- > >cl_share_link, > &nn- > >nfs_client_list); > spin_unlock(&nn- > >nfs_client_lock); > mutex_lock(&nfs_clid_init_mut > ex); > nfs41_walk_client_list(clp, > result, cred); > nfs_wait_client_init_complete > (CLIENTA); > (waiting for nfs_clid_init_mutex) > > Make sure nfs_match_client() only evaluates clients that have > completed > initialization in order to prevent that deadlock. > > Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/nfs/client.c | 11 +++++++++++ > fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 9 ++++++++- > 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c > index 0ac2fb1..7e42380 100644 > --- a/fs/nfs/client.c > +++ b/fs/nfs/client.c > @@ -291,12 +291,23 @@ static struct nfs_client > *nfs_match_client(const struct nfs_client_initdata *dat > const struct sockaddr *sap = data->addr; > struct nfs_net *nn = net_generic(data->net, nfs_net_id); > > +again: > list_for_each_entry(clp, &nn->nfs_client_list, > cl_share_link) { > const struct sockaddr *clap = (struct sockaddr > *)&clp->cl_addr; > /* Don't match clients that failed to initialise > properly */ > if (clp->cl_cons_state < 0) > continue; > > + /* If a client is still initializing then we need to > wait */ > + if (clp->cl_cons_state > NFS_CS_READY) { > + spin_unlock(&nn->nfs_client_lock); > + refcount_inc(&clp->cl_count); The refcount needs to be bumped before dropping the spinlock above. > + nfs_wait_client_init_complete(clp); > + nfs_put_client(clp); > + spin_lock(&nn->nfs_client_lock); > + goto again; > + } > + > /* Different NFS versions cannot share the same > nfs_client */ > if (clp->rpc_ops != data->nfs_mod->rpc_ops) > continue; > diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c > index 12bbab0..39dd39c 100644 > --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c > +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c > @@ -411,8 +411,15 @@ struct nfs_client *nfs4_init_client(struct > nfs_client *clp, > if (error < 0) > goto error; > > - if (clp != old) > + if (clp != old) { > clp->cl_preserve_clid = true; > + /* > + * Mark the client as having failed initialization > so other > + * processes walking the nfs_client_list in > nfs_match_client() > + * won't try to use it. > + */ > + nfs_mark_client_ready(clp, -EPERM); You can't do this if the client was already marked as NFS_CS_READY, so you need at least to move the !nfs4_has_session() condition 4 lines above this. > + } > nfs_put_client(clp); > clear_bit(NFS_CS_TSM_POSSIBLE, &clp->cl_flags); > return old; -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{��w���jg��������ݢj����G�������j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥