This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sunrpc: fix write space race causing stalls
to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sunrpc-fix-write-space-race-causing-stalls.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d48f9ce73c997573e1b512893fa6eddf353a6f69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:58:30 +0100
Subject: sunrpc: fix write space race causing stalls
From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit d48f9ce73c997573e1b512893fa6eddf353a6f69 upstream.
Write space becoming available may race with putting the task to sleep
in xprt_wait_for_buffer_space(). The existing mechanism to avoid the
race does not work.
This (edited) partial trace illustrates the problem:
[1] rpc_task_run_action: task:43546@5 ... action=call_transmit
[2] xs_write_space <-xs_tcp_write_space
[3] xprt_write_space <-xs_write_space
[4] rpc_task_sleep: task:43546@5 ...
[5] xs_write_space <-xs_tcp_write_space
[1] Task 43546 runs but is out of write space.
[2] Space becomes available, xs_write_space() clears the
SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE bit.
[3] xprt_write_space() attemts to wake xprt->snd_task (== 43546), but
this has not yet been queued and the wake up is lost.
[4] xs_nospace() is called which calls xprt_wait_for_buffer_space()
which queues task 43546.
[5] The call to sk->sk_write_space() at the end of xs_nospace() (which
is supposed to handle the above race) does not call
xprt_write_space() as the SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE bit is clear and
thus the task is not woken.
Fix the race by resetting the SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE bit in xs_nospace()
so the second call to sk->sk_write_space() calls xprt_write_space().
Suggested-by: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
@@ -473,7 +473,16 @@ static int xs_nospace(struct rpc_task *t
spin_unlock_bh(&xprt->transport_lock);
/* Race breaker in case memory is freed before above code is called */
- sk->sk_write_space(sk);
+ if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
+ struct socket_wq *wq;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ wq = rcu_dereference(sk->sk_wq);
+ set_bit(SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE, &wq->flags);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ sk->sk_write_space(sk);
+ }
return ret;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/sunrpc-fix-write-space-race-causing-stalls.patch
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