linux-kernel - Re: iov_iter

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Message-ID: <20170428152955.mafs3f22srmm34aw@codemonkey.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:29:55 -0400
From:   Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iov_iter_pipe warning.

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 06:54:30PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
 > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 03:03:18PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > Well it's been running an hour without incident, which looks promising.
 > > I'll leave it run, but I'd say you're on the right track given how quick
 > > it reproduced so far.
 > 
 > Could you try this and see if it works?  What happens is that unlike
 > e.g. generic_file_read_iter/generic_file_write_iter, NFS O_DIRECT handling
 > does not make sure that iov_iter had been advanced by the amount
 > actually transferred - it is left advanced by the amount *requested*.

Crap. So I never ran it long enough it seems. I can still hit that trace.
I re-added one of your earlier debug patches, and got this..

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20100 at fs/splice.c:297 test_it+0x7d/0x120
CPU: 1 PID: 20100 Comm: trinity-c49 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc8-think+ #3 
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x68/0x93
 __warn+0xcb/0xf0
 warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
 test_it+0x7d/0x120
 generic_file_splice_read+0x19a/0x1e0
 do_splice_to+0x79/0x90
 splice_direct_to_actor+0xc6/0x280
 ? generic_pipe_buf_nosteal+0x10/0x10
 do_splice_direct+0x9e/0xd0
 do_sendfile+0x1d7/0x3c0
 SyS_sendfile64+0xc9/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0x66/0x1d0
 entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
RIP: 0033:0x7f8b83b59099
RSP: 002b:00007ffd7967da68 EFLAGS: 00000246
 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000028
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000028 RCX: 00007f8b83b59099
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000131 RDI: 0000000000000195
RBP: 00007f8b840d1000 R08: 0000000000000073 R09: fffffffffffffffc
R10: 000000000000040f R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 00007f8b840d1048 R14: 00007f8b8422fad8 R15: 00007f8b840d1000
---[ end trace 70d344adaede0734 ]---
asked to read 1039, claims to have read 62
actual size of data in pipe 977 
[0:977
]
f_op: ffffffffa02dd980, f_flags: 313346, pos: 4478229749/4478229811, size: 4478229811
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20100 at fs/splice.c:1017 splice_direct_to_actor+0x13f/0x280
CPU: 1 PID: 20100 Comm: trinity-c49 Tainted: G        W       4.11.0-rc8-think+ #3 
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x68/0x93
 __warn+0xcb/0xf0
 warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
 splice_direct_to_actor+0x13f/0x280
 ? generic_pipe_buf_nosteal+0x10/0x10
 do_splice_direct+0x9e/0xd0
 do_sendfile+0x1d7/0x3c0
 SyS_sendfile64+0xc9/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0x66/0x1d0
 entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
RIP: 0033:0x7f8b83b59099
RSP: 002b:00007ffd7967da68 EFLAGS: 00000246
 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000028
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000028 RCX: 00007f8b83b59099
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000131 RDI: 0000000000000195
RBP: 00007f8b840d1000 R08: 0000000000000073 R09: fffffffffffffffc
R10: 000000000000040f R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 00007f8b840d1048 R14: 00007f8b8422fad8 R15: 00007f8b840d1000
---[ end trace 70d344adaede0735 ]---
in->f_op = ffffffffa02dd980, ->splice_write = ffffffff812b1db0


$ grep ffffffffa02dd980 /proc/kallsyms 
ffffffffa02dd980 r nfs4_file_operations	[nfsv4]
$ grep ffffffff812b1db0 /proc/kallsyms 
ffffffff812b1db0 T iter_file_splice_write