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Date:   Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:57:15 +0800
From:   Xiong Zhou <xzhou@...hat.com>
To:     Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
Cc:     Xiong Zhou <xzhou@...hat.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: fanotify_mark FAN_MARK_FLUSH | _MOUNT stress blocks write to
 directory

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 07:52:41AM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Xiong Zhou <xzhou@...hat.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > This happens on 4.13.0-rc7+ to commit 42ff72c
> 
> Don't understand. Is this a regression? from which commit?

No. I'm just saying the exact kernel version: Linus tree, commit 42ff72c

The same on 4.11. Did not test on kernels older than that.

> 
> >
> > After firing up the stress, touch a file in monitoring directory could
> > hang like forever.
> >
> > Pretty easy to hit.
> 
> So are running 3 processes that constantly ask to be notified
> blocking on file system events and then they never read those
> events. Even tough the marks are also destroyed, odd are that
> at least one mark will be alive at any given time.
> 
> Why is it surprising that touching a file in monitored directory
> hangs forever?

It should complete with an error or success in a reasonable time ?

If we keep it hanging, oom killer is online and system hangs.

> 
> I am very happy to see someone is writing stress tests for
> fanotify, I am just not sure this test is tuned correctly.
> Have you been trying to reproduce a reported bug?

No. Just try stress tests.

Xiong

> 
> Amir.
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Xiong
> >
> > [  492.060879] INFO: task touch:2259 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
> > [  492.093497]       Not tainted 4.13.0-rc7-master-42ff72c+ #9
> > [  492.121049] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> > [  492.156289] touch           D    0  2259   2233 0x00000080
> > [  492.180880] Call Trace:
> > [  492.191813]  __schedule+0x28d/0x890
> > [  492.207440]  schedule+0x36/0x80
> > [  492.221529]  fanotify_handle_event+0x2a1/0x2f0
> > [  492.241542]  ? remove_wait_queue+0x60/0x60
> > [  492.260150]  fsnotify+0x2d3/0x4f0
> > [  492.275055]  ? security_inode_init_security+0xd2/0x190
> > [  492.298097]  security_file_open+0x89/0x90
> > [  492.316038]  do_dentry_open+0x139/0x330
> > [  492.333216]  vfs_open+0x4f/0x70
> > [  492.347225]  ? may_open+0x5a/0x100
> > [  492.362481]  path_openat+0x548/0x13b0
> > [  492.378958]  do_filp_open+0x91/0x100
> > [  492.394969]  ? __alloc_fd+0x46/0x170
> > [  492.410930]  do_sys_open+0x124/0x210
> > [  492.426927]  SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
> > [  492.440963]  do_syscall_64+0x67/0x150
> > [  492.457367]  entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
> > [  492.478251] RIP: 0033:0x7fe877f8e5a0
> > [  492.495755] RSP: 002b:00007ffe57120318 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000002
> > [  492.529911] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe57120578 RCX: 00007fe877f8e5a0
> > [  492.561508] RDX: 00000000000001b6 RSI: 0000000000000941 RDI: 00007ffe5712268c
> > [  492.595577] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> > [  492.631144] R10: 00007ffe57120030 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffe5712268c
> > [  492.664970] R13: 00007fe8782612a0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > $ cat test.sh
> >
> > #!/bin/bash -x
> >
> > fallocate -l 2G test.img
> > mkfs.xfs -fq test.img
> > mkdir -p testdir
> > mount -o loop test.img testdir || exit
> >
> > SCRATCH_MNT=$(readlink -f testdir)
> >
> > function clean ()
> > {
> >         while ps -eo comm | grep -q -e fanotify ; do
> >                 killall fanotify_flush_stress
> >         done
> >
> >         umount -d $SCRATCH_MNT
> >         rm -rf test.img scrc $SCRATCH_MNT fanotify_flush_stress
> > }
> >
> > trap "clean; exit;" 2
> >
> > cc fanotify_flush_stress.c -o fanotify_flush_stress
> >
> > ./fanotify_flush_stress $SCRATCH_MNT &
> > ./fanotify_flush_stress $SCRATCH_MNT &
> > ./fanotify_flush_stress $SCRATCH_MNT &
> >
> > ps jf | grep fanotify
> >
> > touch $SCRATCH_MNT/1  # hang
> >
> > clean
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > $ cat fanotify_flush_stress.c
> >
> > #define _GNU_SOURCE     /* Needed to get O_LARGEFILE definition */
> > #include <errno.h>
> > #include <fcntl.h>
> > #include <limits.h>
> > #include <poll.h>
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > #include <sys/fanotify.h>
> > #include <unistd.h>
> > #include <string.h>
> >
> > int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > {
> >         char buf;
> >         int fd;
> >
> >         /* Check mount point is supplied */
> >         if (argc != 2) {
> >                 fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s MOUNT\n", argv[0]);
> >                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> >         }
> >
> >         printf("%s on %s\n", argv[0], argv[1]);
> >         /* Create the file descriptor for accessing the fanotify API */
> >         fd = fanotify_init(FAN_CLOEXEC | FAN_CLASS_CONTENT | FAN_NONBLOCK,
> >                                            O_RDWR | O_LARGEFILE);
> >         if (fd == -1) {
> >                 perror("fanotify_init");
> >                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> >         }
> >
> >         /* Loop marking all kinds of events and flush */
> >         while (1) {
> >
> > #if 1
> >                 if (fanotify_mark(fd, FAN_MARK_ADD | FAN_MARK_MOUNT,
> >                           FAN_ACCESS | FAN_MODIFY | FAN_OPEN_PERM | FAN_CLOSE |
> >                           FAN_OPEN | FAN_ACCESS_PERM | FAN_ONDIR |
> >                           FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD, -1, argv[1]) == -1)
> >
> >                         perror("fanotify_mark add");
> >
> >                 if (fanotify_mark(fd, FAN_MARK_FLUSH | FAN_MARK_MOUNT,
> >                                                 0, -1, argv[1]) == -1)
> >                         perror("fanotify_mark flush mount");
> > #else
> >                 if (fanotify_mark(fd, FAN_MARK_ADD | FAN_MARK_MOUNT,
> >                           FAN_ACCESS | FAN_MODIFY | FAN_OPEN_PERM | FAN_CLOSE |
> >                           FAN_OPEN | FAN_ACCESS_PERM | FAN_ONDIR |
> >                           FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD, -1, argv[1]) == -1)
> >
> >                         perror("fanotify_mark add");
> >
> >                 if (fanotify_mark(fd, FAN_MARK_FLUSH, 0, -1, argv[1]) == -1)
> >                         perror("fanotify_mark flush");
> > #endif
> >         }
> >
> >         close(fd);
> >         exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
> > }

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