linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] blktrace: Fix potentail deadlock between delete & sysfs ops

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Message-ID: <20170817181818.4ef4acf3@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:18:18 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] blktrace: Fix potentail deadlock between delete &
 sysfs ops

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:13:20 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:27:22 -0400
> Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > It is actually what the patch is trying to do by checking for the
> > deletion flag in the mutex_trylock loop. Please note that mutex does not
> > guarantee FIFO ordering of lock acquisition. As a result, cpu1 may call
> > mutex_lock() and wait for it while cpu2 can set the deletion flag later
> > and get the mutex first before cpu1. So checking for the deletion flag
> > before taking the mutex isn't enough.  
> 
> Yeah, I figured that out already (crossed emails). BTW, how did you
> trigger this warning. I'm playing around with adding loop devices,
> volume groups, and logical volumes, and reading the trace files
> created in the sysfs directory, then removing those items, but it's
> not triggering the "delete" path. What operation deletes the partition?

I'm guessing that deleting an actual partition may work (unfortunately,
my test box has no partition to delete ;-) I'll find another box to
test on.

-- Steve