Re: kernel BUG scsi_dh_alua sleeping from invalid context && kernel WARNING do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING

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Hello Bart,

On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 09:55 -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 1/16/23 06:59, Steffen Maier wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > since a few days/weeks, we sometimes see below alua and sleep
> > related 
> > kernel BUG and WARNING (with panic_on_warn) in our CI.
> > 
> > It reminds me of
> > [PATCH 0/2] Rework how the ALUA driver calls scsi_device_put()
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/166986602290.2101055.17397734326843853911.b4-ty@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> > which I thought was the fix and went into 6.2-rc(1?) on 2022-12-14
> > with
> > [GIT PULL] first round of SCSI updates for the 6.1+ merge window
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/b2e824bbd1e40da64d2d01657f2f7a67b98919fb.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
> > 
> > Due to limited history, I cannot tell exactly when problems started
> > and 
> > whether it really correlates to above.
> > 
> > Test workload are all kinds of coverage tests for zfcp recovery 
> > including scsi device removal and/or rescan.
> > 
> > [ 4569.045992] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
> > at 
> > drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c:992
> > [ 4569.046003] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0,
> > pid: 0, 
> > name: swapper/8
> > [ 4569.046013] preempt_count: 101, expected: 0
> > [ 4569.046023] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
> > [ 4569.046033] no locks held by swapper/8/0.
> > [ 4569.046042] Preemption disabled at:




> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.

> > [ 4569.046046] [<000000017e27ce4e>]
> > __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x36/0xb8
> > [ 4569.046072] CPU: 8 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8 Tainted: G        W 
> > 6.2.0-20230114.rc3.git0.46e26dd43df0.300.fc37.s390x+debug #1
> > [ 4569.046084] Hardware name: IBM 2964 NC9 702 (z/VM 6.4.0)
> > [ 4569.046094] Call Trace:
> > [ 4569.046102]  [<000000017ed21bcc>] dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0x100
> > [ 4569.046118]  [<000000017df9192c>] __might_resched+0x284/0x2c8
> > [ 4569.046131]  [<000003ff7fb9c874>] alua_rtpg_queue+0x3c/0x98 
> > [scsi_dh_alua]
> > [ 4569.046146]  [<000003ff7fb9cfb2>] alua_check+0x122/0x250
> > [scsi_dh_alua]
> > [ 4569.046167]  [<000003ff7fb9d562>] alua_check_sense+0x172/0x228 
> > [scsi_dh_alua]
> > [ 4569.046179]  [<000000017e96b3e2>] scsi_check_sense+0x8a/0x2e0
> > [ 4569.046191]  [<000000017e96e4b6>]
> > scsi_decide_disposition+0x286/0x298
> > [ 4569.046201]  [<000000017e972bca>] scsi_complete+0x6a/0x108
> > [ 4569.046212]  [<000000017e746906>] blk_complete_reqs+0x6e/0x88
> > [ 4569.046227]  [<000000017ed3830e>] __do_softirq+0x13e/0x6b8
> > [ 4569.046238]  [<000000017df57902>] __irq_exit_rcu+0x14a/0x170
> > [ 4569.046264]  [<000000017df58472>] irq_exit_rcu+0x22/0x50
> > [ 4569.046275]  [<000000017ed2242a>] do_ext_irq+0x10a/0x1d0
> > [ 4569.046286]  [<000000017ed36156>] ext_int_handler+0xd6/0x110
> > [ 4569.046296]  [<000000017ed362e6>] psw_idle_exit+0x0/0xa
> > [ 4569.046307] ([<000000017defc5da>] arch_cpu_idle+0x52/0xe0)
> > [ 4569.046318]  [<000000017ed34744>] default_idle_call+0x84/0xd0
> > [ 4569.046329]  [<000000017dfbe4cc>] do_idle+0xfc/0x1b8
> > [ 4569.046340]  [<000000017dfbe80e>] cpu_startup_entry+0x36/0x40
> > [ 4569.046350]  [<000000017df11964>]
> > smp_start_secondary+0x14c/0x160
> > [ 4569.046371]  [<000000017ed3658e>] restart_int_handler+0x6e/0x90
> > [ 4569.046381] no locks held by swapper/8/0.
> Hi Steffen,
> 
> Thanks for your report and also for having included this call trace.
> Is 
> my understanding correct that alua_rtpg_queue+0x3c refers to the 
> might_sleep() near the start of alua_rtpg_queue()? If so, please help
> with testing the following patch:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c 
> b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
> index 49cc18a87473..79afa7acdfbc 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
> @@ -989,8 +989,6 @@ static bool alua_rtpg_queue(struct
> alua_port_group
>         int start_queue = 0;
>         unsigned long flags;
> 
> -       might_sleep();
> -
>         if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!pg) || scsi_device_get(sdev))
>                 return false;
> 
> 
> I'm proposing this change because the context from which a request is
> queued should hold a reference on 'sdev' while a request is in
> progress 
> so alua_check_sense() should not trigger the scsi_device_put() call
> in 
> alua_rtpg_queue().

alua_rtpg_queue() must take an additional reference in order to make
sure that the ref survives until the workqueue is started. A possible
reference hold by the caller doesn't help because the caller might have
dropped the ref before the workqueue runs.

Please explain. Am I overlooking something?

Regards
Martin





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