This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cifs: delay super block destruction until all cifsFileInfo objects are gone
to the 3.4-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:
cifs-delay-super-block-destruction-until-all-cifsfileinfo-objects-are-gone.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 24261fc23db950951760d00c188ba63cc756b932 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 16:30:03 +0100
Subject: cifs: delay super block destruction until all cifsFileInfo objects are gone
From: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 24261fc23db950951760d00c188ba63cc756b932 upstream.
cifsFileInfo objects hold references to dentries and it is possible that
these will still be around in workqueues when VFS decides to kill super
block during unmount.
This results in panics like this one:
BUG: Dentry ffff88001f5e76c0{i=66b4a,n=1M-2} still in use (1) [unmount of cifs cifs]
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/dcache.c:943!
[..]
Process umount (pid: 1781, threadinfo ffff88003d6e8000, task ffff880035eeaec0)
[..]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff811b44f3>] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x33/0x60
[<ffffffff8119f7fc>] generic_shutdown_super+0x2c/0xe0
[<ffffffff8119f946>] kill_anon_super+0x16/0x30
[<ffffffffa036623a>] cifs_kill_sb+0x1a/0x30 [cifs]
[<ffffffff8119fcc7>] deactivate_locked_super+0x57/0x80
[<ffffffff811a085e>] deactivate_super+0x4e/0x70
[<ffffffff811bb417>] mntput_no_expire+0xd7/0x130
[<ffffffff811bc30c>] sys_umount+0x9c/0x3c0
[<ffffffff81657c19>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Fix this by making each cifsFileInfo object hold a reference to cifs
super block, which implicitly keeps VFS super block around as well.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[xr: Backported to 3.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/cifs/cifsfs.h | 4 ++++
fs/cifs/file.c | 6 +++++-
3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -87,6 +87,30 @@ extern mempool_t *cifs_mid_poolp;
struct workqueue_struct *cifsiod_wq;
+/*
+ * Bumps refcount for cifs super block.
+ * Note that it should be only called if a referece to VFS super block is
+ * already held, e.g. in open-type syscalls context. Otherwise it can race with
+ * atomic_dec_and_test in deactivate_locked_super.
+ */
+void
+cifs_sb_active(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ struct cifs_sb_info *server = CIFS_SB(sb);
+
+ if (atomic_inc_return(&server->active) == 1)
+ atomic_inc(&sb->s_active);
+}
+
+void
+cifs_sb_deactive(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ struct cifs_sb_info *server = CIFS_SB(sb);
+
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&server->active))
+ deactivate_super(sb);
+}
+
static int
cifs_read_super(struct super_block *sb)
{
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.h
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ extern struct file_system_type cifs_fs_t
extern const struct address_space_operations cifs_addr_ops;
extern const struct address_space_operations cifs_addr_ops_smallbuf;
+/* Functions related to super block operations */
+extern void cifs_sb_active(struct super_block *sb);
+extern void cifs_sb_deactive(struct super_block *sb);
+
/* Functions related to inodes */
extern const struct inode_operations cifs_dir_inode_ops;
extern struct inode *cifs_root_iget(struct super_block *);
--- a/fs/cifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ cifs_new_fileinfo(__u16 fileHandle, stru
mutex_init(&pCifsFile->fh_mutex);
INIT_WORK(&pCifsFile->oplock_break, cifs_oplock_break);
+ cifs_sb_active(inode->i_sb);
+
spin_lock(&cifs_file_list_lock);
list_add(&pCifsFile->tlist, &(tlink_tcon(tlink)->openFileList));
/* if readable file instance put first in list*/
@@ -293,7 +295,8 @@ void cifsFileInfo_put(struct cifsFileInf
struct inode *inode = cifs_file->dentry->d_inode;
struct cifs_tcon *tcon = tlink_tcon(cifs_file->tlink);
struct cifsInodeInfo *cifsi = CIFS_I(inode);
- struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb);
+ struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+ struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(sb);
struct cifsLockInfo *li, *tmp;
spin_lock(&cifs_file_list_lock);
@@ -345,6 +348,7 @@ void cifsFileInfo_put(struct cifsFileInf
cifs_put_tlink(cifs_file->tlink);
dput(cifs_file->dentry);
+ cifs_sb_deactive(sb);
kfree(cifs_file);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/cifs-delay-super-block-destruction-until-all-cifsfileinfo-objects-are-gone.patch
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