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Date:	Sun, 1 Apr 2012 18:38:33 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: ipv6: tunnel: hang when destroying ipv6 tunnel

On 04/01, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
> >> It would be nice to know what sysrq-t says, in particular the trace
> >> of khelper thread is interesting.
> >
> > Sure, I'll get one when it happens again.
>
> So here's the stack of the usermode thread:

Great, thanks, this is even better than khelper's trace,

> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff826a8e54>] schedule+0x24/0x70
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff825fd66d>] p9_client_rpc+0x13d/0x360
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810d7850>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810e3671>] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810e399d>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xd0
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff825ff5ff>] p9_client_walk+0x8f/0x220
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff815a8e3b>] v9fs_vfs_lookup+0xab/0x1c0
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff811ee0c0>] d_alloc_and_lookup+0x40/0x80
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff811fdea0>] ? d_lookup+0x30/0x50
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff811f0aea>] do_lookup+0x28a/0x3b0
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff817c9117>] ? security_inode_permission+0x17/0x20
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff811f1c07>] link_path_walk+0x167/0x420
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff811ee630>] ? generic_readlink+0xb0/0xb0
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff81896d88>] ? __raw_spin_lock_init+0x38/0x70
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff811f24da>] path_openat+0xba/0x500
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff81057253>] ? sched_clock+0x13/0x20
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810ed805>] ? sched_clock_local+0x25/0x90
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810ed940>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xd0/0x120
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff811f2a34>] do_filp_open+0x44/0xa0
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff81119acd>] ? __lock_release+0x8d/0x1d0
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810e3671>] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810e399d>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xd0
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff826aa7f0>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x30/0x60
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff811ea74d>] open_exec+0x2d/0xf0
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff811eb888>] do_execve_common+0x128/0x320
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff811ebb05>] do_execve+0x35/0x40
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810589e5>] sys_execve+0x45/0x70
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff826acc28>] kernel_execve+0x68/0xd0
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810cd6a6>] ? ____call_usermodehelper+0xf6/0x130
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810cd6f9>] call_helper+0x19/0x20
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff826acbb4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810e3f80>] ? finish_task_switch+0x80/0x110
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff826aaeb4>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff810cd6e0>] ? ____call_usermodehelper+0x130/0x130
> [  336.614015]  [<ffffffff826acbb0>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13
>
> While it seems that 9p is the culprit, I have to point out that this
> bug is easily reproducible, and it happens each time due to a
> call_usermode_helper() call. Other than that 9p behaves perfectly and
> I'd assume that I'd be seeing other things break besides
> call_usermode_helper() related ones.

Of course I do not know what happens, but at least this obviously
explains why UMH_WAIT_EXEC hangs, I think call_usermodehelper_exec()
itself is innocent.

Oleg.

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