linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] Hang (deadlock?) inside iscsi_if

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Message-ID: <4F1EDD0F.1060104@cs.wisc.edu>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:32:15 -0600
From:	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>
To:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
CC:	JBottomley@...allels.com, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	open-iscsi@...glegroups.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Hang (deadlock?) inside iscsi_if_rx

On 01/24/2012 10:29 AM, Mike Christie wrote:
> On 01/24/2012 08:30 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I got the following hang when running trinity under KVM tool:
>>
>> [ 2520.824250] INFO: task trinity:31986 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
>> [ 2520.825513] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
>> [ 2520.826983] trinity         D 0000000000000000  5504 31986   2767 0x00000004
>> [ 2520.828416]  ffff88000a21ba98 0000000000000086 ffff88000a3f8000 ffff88000a3f8000
>> [ 2520.829892]  00000000001d4340 ffff88000a21bfd8 ffff88000a21a000 00000000001d4340
>> [ 2520.831380]  00000000001d4340 00000000001d4340 ffff88000a21bfd8 00000000001d4340
>> [ 2520.832838] Call Trace:
>> [ 2520.837089]  [<ffffffff8265297a>] schedule+0x3a/0x50
>> [ 2520.837983]  [<ffffffff82651049>] __mutex_lock_common+0x209/0x5b0
>> [ 2520.839181]  [<ffffffff81af64f3>] ? iscsi_if_rx+0x23/0xa00
>> [ 2520.840232]  [<ffffffff81053943>] ? sched_clock+0x13/0x20
>> [ 2520.841242]  [<ffffffff81af64f3>] ? iscsi_if_rx+0x23/0xa00
>> [ 2520.842271]  [<ffffffff82651430>] mutex_lock_nested+0x40/0x50
>> [ 2520.843353]  [<ffffffff81af64f3>] iscsi_if_rx+0x23/0xa00
>> [ 2520.844461]  [<ffffffff810dfffd>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xd0
>> [ 2520.845576]  [<ffffffff82654130>] ? _raw_read_unlock+0x30/0x60
>> [ 2520.846705]  [<ffffffff8221632e>] netlink_unicast+0x1ae/0x1f0
>> [ 2520.847790]  [<ffffffff82216ae7>] netlink_sendmsg+0x227/0x350
>> [ 2520.848884]  [<ffffffff821a490d>] ? sock_update_netprioidx+0xdd/0x1b0
>> [ 2520.850105]  [<ffffffff821a4882>] ? sock_update_netprioidx+0x52/0x1b0
>> [ 2520.851282]  [<ffffffff8219e376>] sock_aio_write+0x166/0x180
>> [ 2520.852317]  [<ffffffff810dfe51>] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
>> [ 2520.853342]  [<ffffffff811d0b1a>] do_sync_write+0xda/0x120
>> [ 2520.854347]  [<ffffffff81109c42>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0xb2/0x160
>> [ 2520.855533]  [<ffffffff810dfe51>] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
>> [ 2520.856569]  [<ffffffff817914e7>] ? security_file_permission+0x27/0xb0
>> [ 2520.857756]  [<ffffffff811d0ccc>] vfs_write+0x16c/0x180
>> [ 2520.858713]  [<ffffffff811d0dcf>] sys_write+0x4f/0xa0
>> [ 2520.859680]  [<ffffffff826553f9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>> [ 2520.873039] 1 lock held by trinity/31986:
>> [ 2520.873801]  #0:  (rx_queue_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81af64f3>] iscsi_if_rx+0x23/0xa00
>> [ 2520.875587] Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks
>>
>> From looking at the logs, there were two instances of the fuzzer blocked on a write() to a netlink socket. There are no iSCSI targets anywhere on the network.
>>
> 
> What does the trinity test do? Does it write random junk to netlink
> sockets to test the kernel handlers or were you actually stressing the
> creation of targets. If the latter what driver were you trying to create
> targets with (iscsi_tcp, bnx2i, etc)?


Oh yeah, for the random type of test, how much data does userspace write?

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