linux-kernel - Re: ipv6: tunnel: hang when destroying ipv6 tunnel

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Date:	Sat, 7 Apr 2012 09:06:50 +0900
From:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:	garlick@...l.gov
Cc:	levinsasha928@...il.com, ericvh@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davej@...hat.com
Subject: Re: ipv6: tunnel: hang when destroying ipv6 tunnel

Jim Garlick wrote:
> > I think this loop is bad with regard to response to SIGKILL.
> > If wait_event_interruptible() was interrupted by SIGKILL, it will
> > spin until req->status >= REQ_STATUS_RCVD becomes true.
> > Rather,
> > 
> > 	if ((c->status == Connected) && (type == P9_TFLUSH))
> > 		err = wait_event_killable(*req->wq,
> > 					  req->status >= REQ_STATUS_RCVD);
> > 	else
> > 		err = wait_event_interruptible(*req->wq,
> > 					       req->status >= REQ_STATUS_RCVD);
> > 
> > would be safer.
> 
> Does that work?  What prevents p9_client_rpc() from recursing via
> p9_client_flush() on receipt of SIGKILL? 

Sorry, I'm not a 9p user and I can't test whether that works or not.
But at least, continuing the loop even after SIGKILL is not good.
If you have to wait for req->status >= REQ_STATUS_RCVD becomes true, can you
use a kernel thread that waits req->status >= REQ_STATUS_RCVD to become true
and delegate the job of notifying the server from a userspace task to the
kernel thread?

> Yes but in the unlikely event that this happens, the effect is a small
> memory leak for the duration of the mount.  On the other hand if the
> fid is destroyed without successfully informing the server, then
> subsequent operations that involve new file references will fail
> when that fid number is reused, and the mount becomes unusable.

I don't know whether Sasha's problem is caused by this patch or not.
But p9_client_clunk() is called from many functions in fs/9p/ directory.
They are assuming that p9_client_clunk() will call p9_fid_destroy() but
this patch is breaking that assumption. I think this is the cause of hang which
Sasha is experiencing because Sasha's trace shows that call_usermodehelper() is
blocked by functions in fs/9p/ directory. Seems inconsistency state problem.
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