fsnotify: change locking order

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 04:38:22PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
>
> I finally built and tested a v3.0 kernel with these patches (I know I'm
> SOOOOOO far behind).  Not what I hoped for:
>
> > [  150.937798] VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of tmpfs. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...
> > [  150.945290] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000070
> > [  150.946012] IP: [<ffffffff810ffd58>] shmem_free_inode+0x18/0x50
> > [  150.946012] PGD 2bf9e067 PUD 2bf9f067 PMD 0
> > [  150.946012] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> > [  150.946012] CPU 0
> > [  150.946012] Modules linked in: nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ext4 jbd2 crc16 joydev ata_piix i2c_piix4 pcspkr uinput ipv6 autofs4 usbhid [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
> > [  150.946012]
> > [  150.946012] Pid: 2764, comm: syscall_thrash Not tainted 3.0.0+ #1 Red Hat KVM
> > [  150.946012] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810ffd58>]  [<ffffffff810ffd58>] shmem_free_inode+0x18/0x50
> > [  150.946012] RSP: 0018:ffff88002c2e5df8  EFLAGS: 00010282
> > [  150.946012] RAX: 000000004e370d9f RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88003a029438
> > [  150.946012] RDX: 0000000033630a5f RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88003491c240
> > [  150.946012] RBP: ffff88002c2e5e08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> > [  150.946012] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88003a029428
> > [  150.946012] R13: ffff88003a029428 R14: ffff88003a029428 R15: ffff88003499a610
> > [  150.946012] FS:  00007f5a05420700(0000) GS:ffff88003f600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > [  150.946012] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> > [  150.946012] CR2: 0000000000000070 CR3: 000000002a662000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
> > [  150.946012] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > [  150.946012] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > [  150.946012] Process syscall_thrash (pid: 2764, threadinfo ffff88002c2e4000, task ffff88002bfbc760)
> > [  150.946012] Stack:
> > [  150.946012]  ffff88003a029438 ffff88003a029428 ffff88002c2e5e38 ffffffff81102f76
> > [  150.946012]  ffff88003a029438 ffff88003a029598 ffffffff8160f9c0 ffff88002c221250
> > [  150.946012]  ffff88002c2e5e68 ffffffff8115e9be ffff88002c2e5e68 ffff88003a029438
> > [  150.946012] Call Trace:
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff81102f76>] shmem_evict_inode+0x76/0x130
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff8115e9be>] evict+0x7e/0x170
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff8115ee40>] iput_final+0xd0/0x190
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff8115ef33>] iput+0x33/0x40
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff81180205>] fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked+0x145/0x160
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff81180316>] fsnotify_destroy_mark+0x36/0x50
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff81181937>] sys_inotify_rm_watch+0x77/0xd0
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff815aca52>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > [  150.946012] Code: 67 4a 00 b8 e4 ff ff ff eb aa 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 10 48 89 1c 24 4c 89 64 24 08 48 8b 9f 40 05 00 00
> > [  150.946012]  83 7b 70 00 74 1c 4c 8d a3 80 00 00 00 4c 89 e7 e8 d2 5d 4a
> > [  150.946012] RIP  [<ffffffff810ffd58>] shmem_free_inode+0x18/0x50
> > [  150.946012]  RSP <ffff88002c2e5df8>
> > [  150.946012] CR2: 0000000000000070
>
> Looks at aweful lot like the problem from:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg46101.html
>

I tried to reproduce this bug with your test program, but without success.
However, if I understand correctly, this occurs since we dont hold any locks when
we call iput() in mark_destroy(), right?
With the patches you tested, iput() is also not called within any lock, since the
groups mark_mutex is released temporarily before iput() is called.  This is, since
the original codes behaviour is similar.
However since we now have a mutex as the biggest lock, we can do what you
suggested (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg46107.html) and
call iput() with the mutex held to avoid the race.
The patch below implements this. It uses nested locking to avoid deadlock in case
we do the final iput() on an inode which still holds marks and thus would take
the mutex again when calling fsnotify_inode_delete() in destroy_inode().

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index 5a8899350456..1af2f6a722c0 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -88,9 +88,10 @@ struct fsnotify_event_private_data;
  *              if the group is interested in this event.
  * handle_event - main call for a group to handle an fs event
  * free_group_priv - called when a group refcnt hits 0 to clean up the private union
- * freeing-mark - this means that a mark has been flagged to die when everything
- *              finishes using it.  The function is supplied with what must be a
- *              valid group and inode to use to clean up.
+ * freeing_mark - called when a mark is being destroyed for some reason.  The group
+ *              MUST be holding a reference on each mark and that reference must be
+ *              dropped in this function.  inotify uses this function to send
+ *              userspace messages that marks have been removed.
  */
 struct fsnotify_ops {
         bool (*should_send_event)(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct inode *inode,