Re: WARNING: at fs/inode.c:280 drop_nlink+0x31/0x33()

[Jeff Layton]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:27:31 +1000
NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:16:41 -0700 Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > This stack trace comes from cifs, not nfs.
> 
> It's quite easy to trigger on NFS too.
> 
>  mount server:/path /mnt; exec 3>& /mnt/foo ; rm /mnt/foo; rm /mnt/.nfs* ;
>  exec 3>&-
> 
> [634155.004438] WARNING:
> at /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-desktop-3.5.0/lin [634155.004442]
> Hardware name: Latitude E6510 [634155.004577]  crc_itu_t crc32c_intel
> snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcor [634155.004609] Pid: 13402, comm:
> bash Tainted: G        W    3.5.0-36-desktop # [634155.004611] Call Trace:
> [634155.004630]  [<ffffffff8100444a>] dump_trace+0xaa/0x2b0
> [634155.004641]  [<ffffffff815a23dc>] dump_stack+0x69/0x6f
> [634155.004653]  [<ffffffff81041a0b>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7b/0xc0
> [634155.004662]  [<ffffffff811832e4>] drop_nlink+0x34/0x40
> [634155.004687]  [<ffffffffa05bb6c3>] nfs_dentry_iput+0x33/0x70 [nfs]
> [634155.004714]  [<ffffffff8118049e>] dput+0x12e/0x230
> [634155.004726]  [<ffffffff8116b230>] __fput+0x170/0x230
> [634155.004735]  [<ffffffff81167c0f>] filp_close+0x5f/0x90
> [634155.004743]  [<ffffffff81167cd7>] sys_close+0x97/0x100
> [634155.004754]  [<ffffffff815c3b39>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> [634155.004767]  [<00007f2a73a0d110>] 0x7f2a73a0d10f
> 
> Is this suitable for -stable?  It seems like it is just a harmless warning.
> 
> NeilBrown
> 
> 
> Subject: NFS: avoid warning from nfs_drop_nlink
> 
> If you remove a file which is open, NFS will 'silly-rename' it to a
> hidden file.
> If you then remove that hidden file, and then close the open file,
> then nfs_dentry_iput will perform an extra drop_nlink().
> Since 3.3-rc1, this has produced a warning.
> The simplest way to suppress it is to use "nfs_drop_nlink" which
> checks for i_nlink being zero.
> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
> index 627f108..268af03 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
> @@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@ static void nfs_dentry_iput(struct dentry *dentry,
> struct inode *inode) NFS_I(inode)->cache_validity |= NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA;
>  
>  	if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED) {
> -		drop_nlink(inode);
> +		nfs_drop_nlink(inode);
>  		nfs_complete_unlink(dentry, inode);
>  	}
>  	iput(inode);

That looks reasonable to me. I agree that it's a harmless warning but
it looks scary to users...

Just for the sake of argument though, I wonder whether NFS or CIFS has
any business manipulating the nlink count like this. It seems like it's
possible to end up with these manipulations racing with attribute
updates.

Would it make more sense to replace these drop_nlink calls with a call
to mark the attributes as invalid? We would need to come up with a new
way to deal with drop_inode however...

In any case, you can add this to the patch above if you like:

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

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