Re: [PATCH] ceph: Fix a memory leak in ci->i_head_snapc

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On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 9:30 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > "Yan, Zheng" <ukernel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 6:04 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>>
> >>> > "Yan, Zheng" <ukernel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>> >
> >>> >> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:22 AM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> "Yan, Zheng" <ukernel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:33 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> >>> >>
> >>> >>> >> "Yan, Zheng" <ukernel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>> >>> >>
> >>> >>> >> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 7:13 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>> >> >> I'm occasionally seeing a kmemleak warning in xfstest generic/013:
> >>> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>> >> >> unreferenced object 0xffff8881fccca940 (size 32):
> >>> >>> >> >>   comm "kworker/0:1", pid 12, jiffies 4295005883 (age 130.648s)
> >>> >>> >> >>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> >>> >>> >> >>     01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >>> >>> >> >>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >>> >>> >> >>   backtrace:
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<00000000d741a1ea>] build_snap_context+0x5b/0x2a0
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<0000000021a00533>] rebuild_snap_realms+0x27/0x90
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<00000000ac538600>] rebuild_snap_realms+0x42/0x90
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<000000000e955fac>] ceph_update_snap_trace+0x2ee/0x610
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<00000000a9550416>] ceph_handle_snap+0x317/0x5f3
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<00000000fc287b83>] dispatch+0x362/0x176c
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<00000000a312c741>] ceph_con_workfn+0x9ce/0x2cf0
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<000000004168e3a9>] process_one_work+0x1d4/0x400
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<000000002188e9e7>] worker_thread+0x2d/0x3c0
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<00000000b593e4b3>] kthread+0x112/0x130
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<00000000a8587dca>] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
> >>> >>> >> >>     [<00000000ba1c9c1d>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> >>> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>> >> >> It looks like it is possible that we miss a flush_ack from the MDS when,
> >>> >>> >> >> for example, umounting the filesystem.  In that case, we can simply drop
> >>> >>> >> >> the reference to the ceph_snap_context obtained in ceph_queue_cap_snap().
> >>> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>> >> >> Link: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/38224
> >>> >>> >> >> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> >>> >> >> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx>
> >>> >>> >> >> ---
> >>> >>> >> >>  fs/ceph/caps.c | 7 +++++++
> >>> >>> >> >>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >>> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>> >> >> diff --git a/fs/ceph/caps.c b/fs/ceph/caps.c
> >>> >>> >> >> index 36a8dc699448..208f4dc6f574 100644
> >>> >>> >> >> --- a/fs/ceph/caps.c
> >>> >>> >> >> +++ b/fs/ceph/caps.c
> >>> >>> >> >> @@ -1054,6 +1054,7 @@ int ceph_is_any_caps(struct inode *inode)
> >>> >>> >> >>  static void drop_inode_snap_realm(struct ceph_inode_info *ci)
> >>> >>> >> >>  {
> >>> >>> >> >>         struct ceph_snap_realm *realm = ci->i_snap_realm;
> >>> >>> >> >> +
> >>> >>> >> >>         spin_lock(&realm->inodes_with_caps_lock);
> >>> >>> >> >>         list_del_init(&ci->i_snap_realm_item);
> >>> >>> >> >>         ci->i_snap_realm_counter++;
> >>> >>> >> >> @@ -1063,6 +1064,12 @@ static void drop_inode_snap_realm(struct ceph_inode_info *ci)
> >>> >>> >> >>         spin_unlock(&realm->inodes_with_caps_lock);
> >>> >>> >> >>         ceph_put_snap_realm(ceph_sb_to_client(ci->vfs_inode.i_sb)->mdsc,
> >>> >>> >> >>                             realm);
> >>> >>> >> >> +       /*
> >>> >>> >> >> +        * ci->i_head_snapc should be NULL, but we may still be waiting for a
> >>> >>> >> >> +        * flush_ack from the MDS.  In that case, we still hold a ref for the
> >>> >>> >> >> +        * ceph_snap_context and we need to drop it.
> >>> >>> >> >> +        */
> >>> >>> >> >> +       ceph_put_snap_context(ci->i_head_snapc);
> >>> >>> >> >>  }
> >>> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>> >> >>  /*
> >>> >>> >> >
> >>> >>> >> > This does not seem right.  i_head_snapc is cleared when
> >>> >>> >> > (ci->i_wrbuffer_ref_head == 0 && ci->i_dirty_caps == 0 &&
> >>> >>> >> > ci->i_flushing_caps == 0) . Nothing do with dropping ci->i_snap_realm.
> >>> >>> >> > Did you see 'reconnect denied' during the test? If you did, the fix
> >>> >>> >> > should be in iterate_session_caps()
> >>> >>> >> >
> >>> >>> >>
> >>> >>> >> No, I didn't saw any 'reconnect denied' in the test.  The test actually
> >>> >>> >> seems to execute fine, except from the memory leak.
> >>> >>> >>
> >>> >>> >> It's very difficult to reproduce this issue, but last time I managed to
> >>> >>> >> get this memory leak to trigger I actually had some debugging code in
> >>> >>> >> drop_inode_snap_realm, something like:
> >>> >>> >>
> >>> >>> >>   if (ci->i_head_snapc)
> >>> >>> >>         printk("i_head_snapc: 0x%px\n", ci->i_head_snapc);
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > please add code that prints i_wrbuffer_ref_head, i_dirty_caps,
> >>> >>> > i_flushing_caps. and try reproducing it again.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Ok, it took me a few hours, but I managed to reproduce the bug, with
> >>> >>> those extra printks.  All those values are set to 0 when the bug
> >>> >>> triggers (and i_head_snapc != NULL).
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Thanks, which test triggers this bug?
> >>> >
> >>> > That's generic/013.  It usually triggers after a few hours of running it
> >>> > in a loop (I'm using a vstart cluster for that).
> >>> >
> >>> >>
> >>> >> I searched that code, found we may fail to cleanup i_head_snap in two
> >>> >> places. One is in ceph_queue_cap_snap, Another is in
> >>> >> remove_session_caps_cb().
> >>> >
> >>> > Ah, great!  I spent a lot of time looking but I couldn't really find it.
> >>> > My bet was that ceph_queue_cap_snap was doing the ceph_get_snap_context
> >>> > and that the corresponding ceph_put_snap_context would be done in
> >>> > handle_cap_flush_ack. That's why I mentioned the missing flush_ack from
> >>> > MDS.
> >>>
> >>> Something that I didn't said explicitly is that I *know* that the
> >>> unbalanced ceph_get_snap_context() is the one in function
> >>> ceph_queue_cap_snap().  I know this for sure because I've managed to
> >>> reproduce the issue several times with an instrumented kernel (with
> >>> tracepoints) that allowed me to keep track of all ceph_snap_context
> >>> operations (create, get, put, delete).
> >>>
> >>
> >> Sorry for the delay. please try
> >
> > Thank you, I'll try the test with your patch applied and see if I still
> > see the issue (obviously, this will take some time as it takes several
> > hours for the bug to trigger).
>
> Ok, after several hours of running it, I confirm that I was not able to
> reproduce the issue with your patch.  It took me a while because my test
> environment changed a bit and I was failing to reproduce it even without
> the patch.
>

Thanks, I pushed the patch to testing branch.

Yan, Zheng

> Cheers,
> --
> Luis



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