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Message-ID: <0292A2FC-7725-47FC-8F08-CCB8500D8E1D@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:44:42 +0000
From: Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To: Wang Yugui <wangyugui@...-tech.com>
CC: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"david@...morbit.com" <david@...morbit.com>,
"tgraf@...g.ch" <tgraf@...g.ch>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/30] Overhaul NFSD filecache
> On Jun 23, 2022, at 5:02 AM, Wang Yugui <wangyugui@...-tech.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>>> On Jun 22, 2022, at 3:04 PM, Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com> wrote:
>>>> On Jun 22, 2022, at 2:36 PM, Wang Yugui <wangyugui@...-tech.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> fstests generic/531 triggered a panic on kernel 5.19.0-rc3 with this
>>>> patchset.
>>>
>>> As I mention in the cover letter, I haven't tried running generic/531
>>> yet -- no claim at all that this is finished work and that #386 has
>>> been fixed at this point. I'm merely interested in comments on the
>>> general approach.
>>>
>>>
>>>> [ 405.478056] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000049
>>>
>>> The "RIP: " tells the location of the crash. Notice that the call
>>> trace here does not include that information. From your attachment:
>>>
>>> [ 405.518022] RIP: 0010:nfsd_do_file_acquire+0x4e1/0xb80 [nfsd]
>>>
>>> To match that to a line of source code:
>>>
>>> [cel@...et ~]$ cd src/linux/linux/
>>> [cel@...et linux]$ scripts/faddr2line ../obj/manet/fs/nfsd/filecache.o nfsd_do_file_acquire+0x4e1
>>> nfsd_do_file_acquire+0x4e1/0xfc0:
>>> rht_bucket_insert at /home/cel/src/linux/linux/include/linux/rhashtable.h:303
>>> (inlined by) __rhashtable_insert_fast at /home/cel/src/linux/linux/include/linux/rhashtable.h:718
>>> (inlined by) rhashtable_lookup_get_insert_key at /home/cel/src/linux/linux/include/linux/rhashtable.h:982
>>> (inlined by) nfsd_file_insert at /home/cel/src/linux/linux/fs/nfsd/filecache.c:1031
>>> (inlined by) nfsd_do_file_acquire at /home/cel/src/linux/linux/fs/nfsd/filecache.c:1089
>>> [cel@...et linux]$
>>>
>>> This is an example, I'm sure my compiled objects don't match yours.
>>>
>>> And, now that I've added observability, you should be able to do:
>>>
>>> # watch cat /proc/fs/nfsd/filecache
>>>
>>> to see how many items are in the hash and LRU list while the test
>>> is running.
>>>
>>>
>>>> [ 405.608016] Call Trace:
>>>> [ 405.608016] <TASK>
>>>> [ 405.613020] nfs4_get_vfs_file+0x325/0x410 [nfsd]
>>>> [ 405.618018] nfsd4_process_open2+0x4ba/0x16d0 [nfsd]
>>>> [ 405.623016] ? inode_get_bytes+0x38/0x40
>>>> [ 405.623016] ? nfsd_permission+0x97/0xf0 [nfsd]
>>>> [ 405.628022] ? fh_verify+0x1cc/0x6f0 [nfsd]
>>>> [ 405.633025] nfsd4_open+0x640/0xb30 [nfsd]
>>>> [ 405.638025] nfsd4_proc_compound+0x3bd/0x710 [nfsd]
>>>> [ 405.643017] nfsd_dispatch+0x143/0x270 [nfsd]
>>>> [ 405.648019] svc_process_common+0x3bf/0x5b0 [sunrpc]
>>
>> I was able to trigger something that looks very much like this crash.
>> If you remove this line from fs/nfsd/filecache.c:
>>
>> .max_size = 131072, /* buckets */
>>
>> things get a lot more stable for generic/531.
>>
>> I'm looking into the issue now.
>
> Yes. When '.max_size = 131072' is removed, fstests generic/531 passed.
Great! Are you comfortable with this general approach for bug #386?
--
Chuck Lever
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