RE: [External] [PATCH] dm/dax: Fix table reference counts

[Adrian Huang12]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2020 3:51 AM
> To: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>; Alasdair Kergon
> <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>; Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>; Adrian Huang12
> <ahuang12@xxxxxxxxxx>; linux-nvdimm@xxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [External] [PATCH] dm/dax: Fix table reference counts
> 
> A recent fix to the dm_dax_supported() flow uncovered a latent bug. When
> dm_get_live_table() fails it is still required to drop the srcu_read_lock(). Without
> this change the lvm2 test-suite triggers this
> warning:
> 
>     # lvm2-testsuite --only pvmove-abort-all.sh
> 
>     WARNING: lock held when returning to user space!
>     5.9.0-rc5+ #251 Tainted: G           OE
>     ------------------------------------------------
>     lvm/1318 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
>     1 lock held by lvm/1318:
>      #0: ffff9372abb5a340 (&md->io_barrier){....}-{0:0}, at:
> dm_get_live_table+0x5/0xb0 [dm_mod]
> 
> ...and later on this hang signature:
> 
>     INFO: task lvm:1344 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
>           Tainted: G           OE     5.9.0-rc5+ #251
>     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
>     task:lvm             state:D stack:    0 pid: 1344 ppid:     1 flags:0x00004000
>     Call Trace:
>      __schedule+0x45f/0xa80
>      ? finish_task_switch+0x249/0x2c0
>      ? wait_for_completion+0x86/0x110
>      schedule+0x5f/0xd0
>      schedule_timeout+0x212/0x2a0
>      ? __schedule+0x467/0xa80
>      ? wait_for_completion+0x86/0x110
>      wait_for_completion+0xb0/0x110
>      __synchronize_srcu+0xd1/0x160
>      ? __bpf_trace_rcu_utilization+0x10/0x10
>      __dm_suspend+0x6d/0x210 [dm_mod]
>      dm_suspend+0xf6/0x140 [dm_mod]
> 
> Fixes: 7bf7eac8d648 ("dax: Arrange for dax_supported check to span multiple
> devices")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

Cool, thanks for the fix. This solves the issue.

Tested-by: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/md/dm.c |    5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c index
> fb0255d25e4b..4a40df8af7d3 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
> @@ -1136,15 +1136,16 @@ static bool dm_dax_supported(struct dax_device
> *dax_dev, struct block_device *bd  {
>  	struct mapped_device *md = dax_get_private(dax_dev);
>  	struct dm_table *map;
> +	bool ret = false;
>  	int srcu_idx;
> -	bool ret;
> 
>  	map = dm_get_live_table(md, &srcu_idx);
>  	if (!map)
> -		return false;
> +		goto out;
> 
>  	ret = dm_table_supports_dax(map, device_supports_dax, &blocksize);
> 
> +out:
>  	dm_put_live_table(md, srcu_idx);
> 
>  	return ret;