Re: 3.4.4-rt13: btrfs + xfstests 006 = BOOM.. and a bonus rt_mutexdeadlock report for absolutely free!

[Mike Galbraith]

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 15:31 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: 
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 13:43 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: 
> > > rawlock points to ...968 and the node_list to ...970.
> > > 
> > > struct rt_mutex {
> > >         raw_spinlock_t          wait_lock;
> > >         struct plist_head       wait_list;
> > > 
> > > The raw_lock pointer of the plist_head is initialized in
> > > __rt_mutex_init() so it points to wait_lock. 
> > > 
> > > Can you check the offset of wait_list vs. the rt_mutex itself?
> > > 
> > > I wouldn't be surprised if it's exactly 8 bytes. And then this thing
> > > looks like a copied lock with stale pointers to hell. Eew.
> > 
> > crash> struct rt_mutex -o
> > struct rt_mutex {
> >    [0] raw_spinlock_t wait_lock;
> >    [8] struct plist_head wait_list;
> 
> Bingo, that makes it more likely that this is caused by copying w/o
> initializing the lock and then freeing the original structure.
> 
> A quick check for memcpy finds that __btrfs_close_devices() does a
> memcpy of btrfs_device structs w/o initializing the lock in the new
> copy, but I have no idea whether that's the place we are looking for.


Cool, you found one, thanks!  I'm setting boobytraps.

Um, correction, box says I'm setting _buggy_ boobytraps :)

Tomorrow-man will test this and frob traps anew.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> index 43baaf0..06c8ced 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> @@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ static int __btrfs_close_devices(struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices)
>  		new_device->writeable = 0;
>  		new_device->in_fs_metadata = 0;
>  		new_device->can_discard = 0;
> +		spin_lock_init(&new_device->io_lock);
>  		list_replace_rcu(&device->dev_list, &new_device->dev_list);
>  
>  		call_rcu(&device->rcu, free_device);
> 
> 
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