Re: [PATCH 1/2] fuse: Fix race in fuse_writepage_in_flight()

From: Kirill Tkhai
Date: Tue Jan 15 2019 - 10:55:28 EST


On 15.01.2019 18:37, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:03 PM Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 10.01.2019 14:00, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:48 AM Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, Miklos,
>>>>
>>>> any comments about this?
>>>
>>> Is there a reproducer? ISTR that fsx-linux with mmaps enabled was
>>> good for stressing the writeback_cache code.
>>
>> There is no a reproducer, since I found that by eyes during preparation of another patchset.
>
> That's good. It would even better to have a reproducer, but it
> doesn't look easy...
>
> Completely redid this and reordered the patchset so this change is
> made before the locking changes actually introduce the bug.

Hm, I meant that I found this during preparation of the patchset,
but not that fi->lock patchset introduces the bug. I don't think
the patchset is involved:

1)before we had race, because different locks fc->lock and fiq->waitq.lock
are taken in fuse_dev_read() and fuse_writepage_in_flight();
2)after we have the same race, and the locks are fi->lock and fiq->waitq.lock.

>See fuse.git#for-next.

The renewed patch looks correct for me.

Thanks,
Kirill