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The afs filesystem has a lock[*] that it uses to serialise I/O operations
going to the server (vnode->io_lock), as the server will only perform one
modification operation at a time on any given file or directory. This
prevents the the filesystem from filling up all the call slots to a server
with calls that aren't going to be executed in parallel anyway, thereby
allowing operations on other files to obtain slots.
[*] Note that is probably redundant for directories at least since
i_rwsem is used to serialise directory modifications and
lookup/reading vs modification. The server does allow parallel
non-modification ops, however.
When a file truncation op completes, we truncate the in-memory copy of the
file to match - but we do it whilst still holding the io_lock, the idea
being to prevent races with other operations.
However, if writeback starts in a worker thread simultaneously with
truncation (whilst notify_change() is called with i_rwsem locked, writeback
pays it no heed), it may manage to set PG_writeback bits on the pages that
will get truncated before afs_setattr_success() manages to call
truncate_pagecache(). Truncate will then wait for those pages - whilst
still inside io_lock:
# cat /proc/8837/stack
[<0>] wait_on_page_bit_common+0x184/0x1e7
[<0>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x37f/0x3eb
[<0>] truncate_pagecache+0x3c/0x53
[<0>] afs_setattr_success+0x4d/0x6e
[<0>] afs_wait_for_operation+0xd8/0x169
[<0>] afs_do_sync_operation+0x16/0x1f
[<0>] afs_setattr+0x1fb/0x25d
[<0>] notify_change+0x2cf/0x3c4
[<0>] do_truncate+0x7f/0xb2
[<0>] do_sys_ftruncate+0xd1/0x104
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x3a
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
The writeback operation, however, stalls indefinitely because it needs to
get the io_lock to proceed:
# cat /proc/5940/stack
[<0>] afs_get_io_locks+0x58/0x1ae
[<0>] afs_begin_vnode_operation+0xc7/0xd1
[<0>] afs_store_data+0x1b2/0x2a3
[<0>] afs_write_back_from_locked_page+0x418/0x57c
[<0>] afs_writepages_region+0x196/0x224
[<0>] afs_writepages+0x74/0x156
[<0>] do_writepages+0x2d/0x56
[<0>] __writeback_single_inode+0x84/0x207
[<0>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x238/0x3cf
[<0>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x68/0x9f
[<0>] wb_writeback+0x145/0x26c
[<0>] wb_do_writeback+0x16a/0x194
[<0>] wb_workfn+0x74/0x177
[<0>] process_one_work+0x174/0x264
[<0>] worker_thread+0x117/0x1b9
[<0>] kthread+0xec/0xf1
[<0>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
and thus deadlock has occurred.
Note that whilst afs_setattr() calls filemap_write_and_wait(), the fact
that the caller is holding i_rwsem doesn't preclude more pages being
dirtied through an mmap'd region.
Fix this by:
(1) Use the vnode validate_lock to mediate access between afs_setattr()
and afs_writepages():
(a) Exclusively lock validate_lock in afs_setattr() around the whole
RPC operation.
(b) If WB_SYNC_ALL isn't set on entry to afs_writepages(), trying to
shared-lock validate_lock and returning immediately if we couldn't
get it.
(c) If WB_SYNC_ALL is set, wait for the lock.
The validate_lock is also used to validate a file and to zap its cache
if the file was altered by a third party, so it's probably a good fit
for this.
(2) Move the truncation outside of the io_lock in setattr, using the same
hook as is used for local directory editing.
This requires the old i_size to be retained in the operation record as
we commit the revised status to the inode members inside the io_lock
still, but we still need to know if we reduced the file size.
Fixes: d2ddc776a458 ("afs: Overhaul volume and server record caching and fileserver rotation")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.