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Mikulas Patocka d50d82faa0 slub: fix failure when we delete and create a slab cache 
In kernel 4.17 I removed some code from dm-bufio that did slab cache
merging (commit 21bb132767: "dm bufio: remove code that merges slab
caches") - both slab and slub support merging caches with identical
attributes, so dm-bufio now just calls kmem_cache_create and relies on
implicit merging.

This uncovered a bug in the slub subsystem - if we delete a cache and
immediatelly create another cache with the same attributes, it fails
because of duplicate filename in /sys/kernel/slab/.  The slub subsystem
offloads freeing the cache to a workqueue - and if we create the new
cache before the workqueue runs, it complains because of duplicate
filename in sysfs.

This patch fixes the bug by moving the call of kobject_del from
sysfs_slab_remove_workfn to shutdown_cache.  kobject_del must be called
while we hold slab_mutex - so that the sysfs entry is deleted before a
cache with the same attributes could be created.

Running device-mapper-test-suite with:

  dmtest run --suite thin-provisioning -n /commit_failure_causes_fallback/

triggered:

  Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 1572848, async page read
  device-mapper: thin: 253:1: metadata operation 'dm_pool_alloc_data_block' failed: error = -5
  device-mapper: thin: 253:1: aborting current metadata transaction
  sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/kernel/slab/:a-0000144'
  CPU: 2 PID: 1037 Comm: kworker/u48:1 Not tainted 4.17.0.snitm+ #25
  Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-1029P-WTR/X11DDW-L, BIOS 2.0a 12/06/2017
  Workqueue: dm-thin do_worker [dm_thin_pool]
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0x5a/0x73
   sysfs_warn_dup+0x58/0x70
   sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x77/0x80
   kobject_add_internal+0xba/0x2e0
   kobject_init_and_add+0x70/0xb0
   sysfs_slab_add+0xb1/0x250
   __kmem_cache_create+0x116/0x150
   create_cache+0xd9/0x1f0
   kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x1c1/0x250
   kmem_cache_create+0x18/0x20
   dm_bufio_client_create+0x1ae/0x410 [dm_bufio]
   dm_block_manager_create+0x5e/0x90 [dm_persistent_data]
   __create_persistent_data_objects+0x38/0x940 [dm_thin_pool]
   dm_pool_abort_metadata+0x64/0x90 [dm_thin_pool]
   metadata_operation_failed+0x59/0x100 [dm_thin_pool]
   alloc_data_block.isra.53+0x86/0x180 [dm_thin_pool]
   process_cell+0x2a3/0x550 [dm_thin_pool]
   do_worker+0x28d/0x8f0 [dm_thin_pool]
   process_one_work+0x171/0x370
   worker_thread+0x49/0x3f0
   kthread+0xf8/0x130
   ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
  kobject_add_internal failed for :a-0000144 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
  kmem_cache_create(dm_bufio_buffer-16) failed with error -17

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.1806151817130.6333@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-28 11:16:44 -07:00
arch A single build fix for 4.18: 2018-06-27 09:56:23 -07:00
block for-linus-20180623 2018-06-24 06:33:54 +08:00
certs certs/blacklist: fix const confusion 2018-06-26 09:43:03 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'fixes-v4.18-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2018-06-26 08:44:15 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2018-06-27 09:16:53 -07:00
drivers ARM: SoC fixes for 4.18-rc 2018-06-27 09:53:53 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Changes since last update: 2018-06-27 12:21:06 -07:00
include slub: fix failure when we delete and create a slab cache 2018-06-28 11:16:44 -07:00
init dma-mapping: move all DMA mapping code to kernel/dma 2018-06-14 08:50:37 +02:00
ipc ipc: use new return type vm_fault_t 2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
kernel Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-24 20:29:15 +08:00
lib lib/percpu_ida.c: don't do alloc from per-CPU list if there is none 2018-06-28 11:16:44 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm slub: fix failure when we delete and create a slab cache 2018-06-28 11:16:44 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-06-25 15:58:17 +08:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.18 2018-06-12 13:11:26 -07:00
scripts checkpatch: remove warning for 'old' stable@kernel.org address 2018-06-27 08:40:44 -07:00
security dh key: fix rounding up KDF output length 2018-06-26 09:43:05 -07:00
sound docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-06-25 15:58:17 +08:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM: arm64: Prevent KVM_COMPAT from being selected 2018-06-21 17:17:50 +01:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Timur has a kernel.org address 2018-06-27 12:20:27 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc2 2018-06-24 20:54:29 +08:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.