This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
libceph: force GFP_NOIO for socket allocations
to the 4.9-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:
libceph-force-gfp_noio-for-socket-allocations.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 633ee407b9d15a75ac9740ba9d3338815e1fcb95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:44:28 +0100
Subject: libceph: force GFP_NOIO for socket allocations
From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 633ee407b9d15a75ac9740ba9d3338815e1fcb95 upstream.
sock_alloc_inode() allocates socket+inode and socket_wq with
GFP_KERNEL, which is not allowed on the writeback path:
Workqueue: ceph-msgr con_work [libceph]
ffff8810871cb018 0000000000000046 0000000000000000 ffff881085d40000
0000000000012b00 ffff881025cad428 ffff8810871cbfd8 0000000000012b00
ffff880102fc1000 ffff881085d40000 ffff8810871cb038 ffff8810871cb148
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff816dd629>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[<ffffffff816e066d>] schedule_timeout+0x1bd/0x200
[<ffffffff81093ffc>] ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x2c/0x120
[<ffffffff81094266>] ? ttwu_do_activate.constprop.135+0x66/0x70
[<ffffffff816deb5f>] wait_for_completion+0xbf/0x180
[<ffffffff81097cd0>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x390/0x390
[<ffffffff81086335>] flush_work+0x165/0x250
[<ffffffff81082940>] ? worker_detach_from_pool+0xd0/0xd0
[<ffffffffa03b65b1>] xlog_cil_force_lsn+0x81/0x200 [xfs]
[<ffffffff816d6b42>] ? __slab_free+0xee/0x234
[<ffffffffa03b4b1d>] _xfs_log_force_lsn+0x4d/0x2c0 [xfs]
[<ffffffff811adc1e>] ? lookup_page_cgroup_used+0xe/0x30
[<ffffffffa039a723>] ? xfs_reclaim_inode+0xa3/0x330 [xfs]
[<ffffffffa03b4dcf>] xfs_log_force_lsn+0x3f/0xf0 [xfs]
[<ffffffffa039a723>] ? xfs_reclaim_inode+0xa3/0x330 [xfs]
[<ffffffffa03a62c6>] xfs_iunpin_wait+0xc6/0x1a0 [xfs]
[<ffffffff810aa250>] ? wake_atomic_t_function+0x40/0x40
[<ffffffffa039a723>] xfs_reclaim_inode+0xa3/0x330 [xfs]
[<ffffffffa039ac07>] xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag+0x257/0x3d0 [xfs]
[<ffffffffa039bb13>] xfs_reclaim_inodes_nr+0x33/0x40 [xfs]
[<ffffffffa03ab745>] xfs_fs_free_cached_objects+0x15/0x20 [xfs]
[<ffffffff811c0c18>] super_cache_scan+0x178/0x180
[<ffffffff8115912e>] shrink_slab_node+0x14e/0x340
[<ffffffff811afc3b>] ? mem_cgroup_iter+0x16b/0x450
[<ffffffff8115af70>] shrink_slab+0x100/0x140
[<ffffffff8115e425>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x335/0x490
[<ffffffff8115e7f9>] try_to_free_pages+0xb9/0x1f0
[<ffffffff816d56e4>] ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x69/0x1be
[<ffffffff81150cba>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x69a/0xb40
[<ffffffff8119743e>] alloc_pages_current+0x9e/0x110
[<ffffffff811a0ac5>] new_slab+0x2c5/0x390
[<ffffffff816d71c4>] __slab_alloc+0x33b/0x459
[<ffffffff815b906d>] ? sock_alloc_inode+0x2d/0xd0
[<ffffffff8164bda1>] ? inet_sendmsg+0x71/0xc0
[<ffffffff815b906d>] ? sock_alloc_inode+0x2d/0xd0
[<ffffffff811a21f2>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x1a2/0x1b0
[<ffffffff815b906d>] sock_alloc_inode+0x2d/0xd0
[<ffffffff811d8566>] alloc_inode+0x26/0xa0
[<ffffffff811da04a>] new_inode_pseudo+0x1a/0x70
[<ffffffff815b933e>] sock_alloc+0x1e/0x80
[<ffffffff815ba855>] __sock_create+0x95/0x220
[<ffffffff815baa04>] sock_create_kern+0x24/0x30
[<ffffffffa04794d9>] con_work+0xef9/0x2050 [libceph]
[<ffffffffa04aa9ec>] ? rbd_img_request_submit+0x4c/0x60 [rbd]
[<ffffffff81084c19>] process_one_work+0x159/0x4f0
[<ffffffff8108561b>] worker_thread+0x11b/0x530
[<ffffffff81085500>] ? create_worker+0x1d0/0x1d0
[<ffffffff8108b6f9>] kthread+0xc9/0xe0
[<ffffffff8108b630>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x90/0x90
[<ffffffff816e1b98>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
[<ffffffff8108b630>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x90/0x90
Use memalloc_noio_{save,restore}() to temporarily force GFP_NOIO here.
Link: http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/19309
Reported-by: Sergey Jerusalimov <wintchester@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ceph/messenger.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/net/ceph/messenger.c
+++ b/net/ceph/messenger.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/net.h>
#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/socket.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
@@ -469,11 +470,16 @@ static int ceph_tcp_connect(struct ceph_
{
struct sockaddr_storage *paddr = &con->peer_addr.in_addr;
struct socket *sock;
+ unsigned int noio_flag;
int ret;
BUG_ON(con->sock);
+
+ /* sock_create_kern() allocates with GFP_KERNEL */
+ noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
ret = sock_create_kern(read_pnet(&con->msgr->net), paddr->ss_family,
SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP, &sock);
+ memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
if (ret)
return ret;
sock->sk->sk_allocation = GFP_NOFS;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from idryomov@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/libceph-force-gfp_noio-for-socket-allocations.patch