When testing exhaustion of dm snapshots, the following appeared with CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE enabled: ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: work_struct hint: xfs_buf_iodone_work+0x0/0x1d0 [xfs] indicating that we'd freed a buffer which still had a pending reference, down this path: [ 190.867975] [<ffffffff8133e6fb>] debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x22b/0x270 [ 190.880820] [<ffffffff811da1d0>] kmem_cache_free+0xd0/0x370 [ 190.892615] [<ffffffffa02c5924>] xfs_buf_free+0xe4/0x210 [xfs] [ 190.905629] [<ffffffffa02c6167>] xfs_buf_rele+0xe7/0x270 [xfs] [ 190.911770] [<ffffffffa034c826>] xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x7b6/0xac0 [xfs] At issue is the fact that if IO fails in xfs_buf_iorequest, we'll queue completion unconditionally, and then call xfs_buf_rele; but if IO failed, there are no IOs remaining, and xfs_buf_rele will free the bp while work is still queued. Fix this by not scheduling completion if the buffer has an error on it; run it immediately. The rest is only comment changes. Thanks to dchinner for spotting the root cause. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- p.s. or maybe this could be moved into _xfs_buf_ioend ... I think I see some nice cleanups for xfs_buf_ioend vs. _xfs_buf_ioend w.r.t. when "schedule" is true, so maybe I can clean it up then. diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c index 9c061ef..45eb5ef 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c @@ -1361,21 +1361,29 @@ xfs_buf_iorequest( xfs_buf_wait_unpin(bp); xfs_buf_hold(bp); - /* Set the count to 1 initially, this will stop an I/O + /* + * Set the count to 1 initially, this will stop an I/O * completion callout which happens before we have started * all the I/O from calling xfs_buf_ioend too early. */ atomic_set(&bp->b_io_remaining, 1); _xfs_buf_ioapply(bp); - _xfs_buf_ioend(bp, 1); + /* + * If _xfs_buf_ioapply failed, we'll get back here with + * only the reference we took above. _xfs_buf_ioend will + * drop it to zero, so we'd better not queue it for later, + * or we'll free it before it's done. + */ + _xfs_buf_ioend(bp, bp->b_error ? 0 : 1); xfs_buf_rele(bp); } /* * Waits for I/O to complete on the buffer supplied. It returns immediately if - * no I/O is pending or there is already a pending error on the buffer. It - * returns the I/O error code, if any, or 0 if there was no error. + * no I/O is pending or there is already a pending error on the buffer, in which + * case nothing will ever complete. It returns the I/O error code, if any, or + * 0 if there was no error. */ int xfs_buf_iowait( _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
