linux-kernel - Re: hangs on boot in 9984d7394618df9

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Message-ID: <20130408224637.GW4068@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 8 Apr 2013 23:46:37 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@....com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hangs on boot in 9984d7394618df9

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 04:17:17PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 04/08/2013 03:48 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 10:23:27PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> >> On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:52:08PM -0500, Nathan Zimmer wrote:
> >>
> >>> Further digging seems to indicate 9984d7394618df9, the one right
> >>> after the commit I previously identified.
> >>> Not sure what I did wrong with my bisect to put it off by one.
> >>
> >> Ugh...  Can't reproduce here ;-/  Could you give more details on your
> >> setup?
> > 
> > Anyway, I've just pushed a splitup of that commit (carved in 3 pieces)
> > into vfs.git#pipe-splitup; could you check which part triggers that
> > hang?  Should propagate in a few...
> 
> It looks like "pipe: unify ->release() and ->open()" introduces the
> problem. Note that I had to add a prototype for fifo_open() before the
> structs that reference it for that commit to compile.

Very interesting...  Just in case, could you try this on top of that
branch and see if it triggers?

diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 8ce279b..b6cd51b 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -1022,6 +1022,11 @@ static int fifo_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	/* We can only do regular read/write on fifos */
 	filp->f_mode &= (FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE);
 
+	if (inode->i_sb->s_magic == PIPEFS_MAGIC) {
+		WARN_ON(filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK);
+		filp->f_flags &= ~O_NONBLOCK;
+	}
+
 	switch (filp->f_mode) {
 	case FMODE_READ:
 	/*
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