xenbus hang after userspace ctrl-c of xenstore-rm

[James Dingwall]

Hi,

I have been investigating a problem where xenstore becomes unresponsive 
during domain shutdowns.  My test script seems to trigger the problem 
but without definitively being the same.  It is possible to replicate 
the issue in dom0 or a domU.  If the test script is run in dom0 it seems 
that it is possible to affect xenstore access in domUs but I have not 
observed any negative impact in dom0 or other guests when running in a 
domU.

The environment is a default Ubuntu 5.0.0-29-generic kernel, xen 
4.11.3-pre (built from current head of staging-4.11), xenstore is 
running in a stubdom.  I did try a kernel with 
d10e0cc113c9e1b64b5c6e3db37b5c839794f3df "xenbus: Avoid deadlock during 
suspend due to open transactions" but that didn't help, this stack trace 
is with that patch applied.

[ 2551.474706] INFO: task xenbus:37 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 2551.492215]       Tainted: P           OE     5.0.0-29-generic #5
[ 2551.510263] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[ 2551.528585] xenbus          D    0    37      2 0x80000080
[ 2551.528590] Call Trace:
[ 2551.528603]  __schedule+0x2c0/0x870
[ 2551.528606]  ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
[ 2551.528632]  schedule+0x2c/0x70
[ 2551.528637]  xs_talkv+0x1ec/0x2b0
[ 2551.528642]  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
[ 2551.528645]  xs_single+0x53/0x80
[ 2551.528648]  xenbus_transaction_end+0x3b/0x70
[ 2551.528651]  xenbus_file_free+0x5a/0x160
[ 2551.528654]  xenbus_dev_queue_reply+0xc4/0x220
[ 2551.528657]  xenbus_thread+0x7de/0x880
[ 2551.528660]  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
[ 2551.528665]  kthread+0x121/0x140
[ 2551.528667]  ? xb_read+0x1d0/0x1d0
[ 2551.528670]  ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
[ 2551.528673]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

>From a vanilla Ubuntu 5.0.0-29-generic kernel (seems to be the same):

[ 3639.401276] INFO: task xenbus:37 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 3639.417908]       Tainted: P           OE     5.0.0-29-generic #31~18.04.1-Ubuntu
[ 3639.435642] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[ 3639.453824] xenbus          D    0    37      2 0x80000080
[ 3639.453828] Call Trace:
[ 3639.453837]  __schedule+0x2bd/0x850
[ 3639.453842]  ? __wake_up+0x13/0x20
[ 3639.453844]  ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
[ 3639.453845]  schedule+0x2c/0x70
[ 3639.453848]  xs_talkv+0x1e8/0x2a0
[ 3639.453850]  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
[ 3639.453852]  xs_single+0x53/0x80
[ 3639.453853]  xenbus_transaction_end+0x3b/0x70
[ 3639.453855]  xenbus_file_free+0x5a/0x160
[ 3639.453857]  xenbus_dev_queue_reply+0xc4/0x220
[ 3639.453859]  xenbus_thread+0x7de/0x880
[ 3639.453861]  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
[ 3639.453864]  kthread+0x121/0x140
[ 3639.453865]  ? xb_read+0x1d0/0x1d0
[ 3639.453867]  ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
[ 3639.453870]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

To reproduce this I run the script once and allow it to complete.  In a 
second run if I ctrl-c while it is doing the xenstore-rm it exits but 
then further xenstore commands are unresponsive.  I haven't tried to 
reduce the numbers but I assume that with only a small number of keys 
that interrupting the xenstore-rm would have the same result.  It was 
just a hunch that during domain shutdown the toolstack is doing a clean 
up and removing keys for the shutdown domain which is why I wrote this 
test.

I'm happy to provide further information about the configuration or run 
other tests.

Thanks,
James

----- Test script -----

#!/bin/bash

set -eu

# just in case xenstore stubdom tells us anything
xl set-parameters guest_loglvl=debug

tree="${1:-/tree}"
xcount="256"
branches="256"
leaves="256"
xstring="$(awk 'BEGIN { while (c++<'"${xcount}"') printf "x" }')"

echo "writing approximately $((xcount * branches * leaves)) of data to xenstore under ${tree}"

xenstore-rm "${tree}"
xenstore-write "${tree}" ""

for branch in $(seq 1 "${branches}") ; do
    echo "filling branch ${branch} of ${branches}"
    xenstore-write "${tree}/branch${branch}" ""
    for leaf in $(seq 1 "${leaves}") ; do
        xenstore-write "${tree}/branch${branch}/leaf${leaf}" "${xstring}"
    done
done