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Message-ID: <20131111222053.GA11809@quack.suse.cz> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:20:53 +0100 From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> To: Sage Weil <sage@...tank.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: crash in __jbd2_journal_file_buffer On Tue 10-09-13 15:32:47, Sage Weil wrote: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Fri 23-08-13 22:48:10, Jan Kara wrote: > > > On Thu 22-08-13 16:35:15, Sage Weil wrote: > > > > On Tue, 13 Aug 2013, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > > On Mon 12-08-13 11:13:06, Sage Weil wrote: > > > > > > Full dmesg is attached. > > > > > Hum, nothing interesting in there... > > > > > > > > > > > Our QA seems to hit this with some regularity. Let me know if there's > > > > > > some combination of patches that would help shed more light! > > > > > If they can run with attached debug patch it could maybe sched some more > > > > > light. Please send also your System.map file together with the dmesg of the > > > > > kernel when the crash happens so that I can map addresses to function > > > > > names... Thanks! > > > > > > > > Okay, finally hit it again: > > > > > > > > <6>[75193.192249] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,user_xattr > > > > <3>[77877.426658] Dirtying buffer without jh at 4302720297: state 218c029,jh added from 0xffffffff8127ab1d at 4302720297, removed from 0xffffffff8127b5b0 at 4302720296 > > > > <4>[77877.441200] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > > > <4>[77877.445845] WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 26045 at /srv/autobuild-ceph/gitbuilder.git/build/fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1380 jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x1f1/0x2e0() > > > > > > > > <4>[77877.497349] CPU: 7 PID: 26045 Comm: ceph-osd Not tainted 3.11.0-rc5-ceph-00061-g546140d #1 > > > > <4>[77877.505649] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R410/01V648, BIOS 1.6.3 02/07/2011 > > > > <4>[77877.513213] 0000000000000564 ffff880131ca1938 ffffffff81642d85 ffff8802272ef290 > > > > <4>[77877.520694] 0000000000000000 ffff880131ca1978 ffffffff8104985c ffff880131ca19a0 > > > > <4>[77877.528218] ffff88020f695aa0 0000000000000000 ffff880214c48b40 ffff88020be55000 > > > > <4>[77877.535756] Call Trace: > > > > <4>[77877.538279] [<ffffffff81642d85>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58 > > > > <4>[77877.543439] [<ffffffff8104985c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0 > > > > <4>[77877.549548] [<ffffffff810498aa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 > > > > <4>[77877.555413] [<ffffffff8127adb1>] jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x1f1/0x2e0 > > > > <4>[77877.562288] [<ffffffff812578c3>] __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0xa3/0x140 > > > > <4>[77877.569155] [<ffffffff81268e23>] ext4_xattr_release_block+0x103/0x1f0 > > > > <4>[77877.575723] [<ffffffff812692b0>] ext4_xattr_block_set+0x1e0/0x910 > > > > <4>[77877.581990] [<ffffffff8126a58b>] ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x38b/0x4a0 > > > > <4>[77877.588335] [<ffffffff810af7cd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 > > > > <4>[77877.594188] [<ffffffff8126a765>] ext4_xattr_set+0xc5/0x140 > > > > <4>[77877.599837] [<ffffffff8126b177>] ext4_xattr_user_set+0x47/0x50 > > > > <4>[77877.605779] [<ffffffff811a3fee>] generic_setxattr+0x6e/0x90 > > > > <4>[77877.611514] [<ffffffff811a48eb>] __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x7b/0x1c0 > > > > <4>[77877.617773] [<ffffffff811a4af4>] vfs_setxattr+0xc4/0xd0 > > > > <4>[77877.623103] [<ffffffff811a4c3e>] setxattr+0x13e/0x1e0 > > > > <4>[77877.628317] [<ffffffff81181ec7>] ? __sb_start_write+0xe7/0x1b0 > > > > <4>[77877.634260] [<ffffffff8119fb98>] ? mnt_want_write_file+0x28/0x60 > > > > <4>[77877.640428] [<ffffffff8119cf0c>] ? fget_light+0x3c/0x130 > > > > <4>[77877.645847] [<ffffffff8119fb98>] ? mnt_want_write_file+0x28/0x60 > > > > <4>[77877.652015] [<ffffffff8119e902>] ? mnt_clone_write+0x12/0x30 > > > > <4>[77877.657897] [<ffffffff811a50de>] SyS_fsetxattr+0xbe/0x100 > > > > <4>[77877.663405] [<ffffffff81653782>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > > > <4>[77877.669488] ---[ end trace bb7933908cd5a32a ]--- > > > I was scratching my head for a while how this could happen but I think I > > > see the race now. Think we have two inodes A and B which share the same > > > xattr block (so &BHDR(bh)->h_refcount == 2). Now we are changing xattrs for > > > both inodes in parallel - that can easily happen because xattr locking is > > > generally per inode (EXT4_I(inode)->xattr_sem). The following race then > > > happens: > > > CPU1 CPU2 > > > ext4_xattr_release_block() ext4_xattr_release_block() > > > lock_buffer(bh); > > > /* False */ > > > if (BHDR(bh)->h_refcount == cpu_to_le32(1)) > > > } else { > > > le32_add_cpu(&BHDR(bh)->h_refcount, -1); > > > unlock_buffer(bh); > > > lock_buffer(bh); > > > /* True */ > > > if (BHDR(bh)->h_refcount == cpu_to_le32(1)) > > > get_bh(bh); > > > ext4_free_blocks() > > > ... > > > jbd2_journal_forget() > > > jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer() > > > -> JH is gone > > > error = ext4_handle_dirty_xattr_block(handle, inode, bh); > > > -> triggers warning > > > > > > Now easy fix would be to move ext4_handle_dirty_xattr_block() before > > > unlock_buffer() but I don't really like that because of locking > > > constraints. I'll think about it... > > So finally I've got back to this. Attached is a somewhat ugly patch that > > should fix this issue. Can you please test it? Thanks! > > Sure; added it to our test tree. I haven't seen this in a week probably, > so it'll be hard to definitively say it's fixed, but it'll get plenty of > testing. :) Any luck with testing? It has been two months so if the bug didn't reappear I'd hope it really got fixed... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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