Re: [PATCH v2] nvme: avoid race in shutdown namespace removal

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 9/6/21 10:40 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 9/6/21 10:01 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 11:20:02AM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
>>> When we remove the siblings entry, we update ns->head->list, hence we
>>> can't separate the removal and test for being empty. They have to be
>>> in the same critical section to avoid a race.
>>>
>>> To avoid breaking the refcounting imbalance again, add a list empty
>>> check to nvme_find_ns_head.
>>
>> Hannes, can you look over this and run your tests on it?
>>
> I'm at it.
> 
Finally. qemu being it's usual bitchy self.

But managed to test the patch, and all looks good.

For reference, the testcase is:

- Create qemu instance with two NVMe namespaces:
  -device pcie-root-port,id=rp80,bus=pcie.0,chassis=2,addr=8.0,\
   multifunction=on,pref64-reserve=32M \
  -device pcie-root-port,id=rp90,bus=pcie.0,chassis=3,addr=9.0,\
   multifunction=on,pref64-reserve=32M \
  -device nvme-subsys,id=nvme-subsys1,nqn=slesnvmesubsys-1 \
  -device nvme-subsys,id=nvme-subsys2,nqn=slesnvmesubsys-2 \
  -device nvme,bus=rp80,id=nvme-rp80,serial=SLESNVME2,\
   subsys=nvme-subsys1 \
  -device nvme-ns,id=nvme-ns-2,bus=nvme-rp80,drive=nvme-2 \
  -device nvme,bus=rp90,id=nvme-rp90,serial=SLESNVME3,\
   subsys=nvme-subsys2 \
  -device nvme-ns,id=nvme-ns-3,bus=nvme-rp90,drive=nvme-3

- Install the system, and create an MD RAID 1 on those namespaces.
- Enter qemu monitor, and detach one controller:
  device_del nvme-rp90
- Check in the OS that the device has been removed, and MD has
  registered the device failure:

# dmesg
[ 1801.076236] pcieport 0000:00:09.0: pciehp: Slot(0-2): Attention
button pressed
[ 1801.076251] pcieport 0000:00:09.0: pciehp: Slot(0-2): Powering off
due to button press
[ 1806.250017] block nvme2n1: no available path - failing I/O
[ 1806.250030] md: super_written gets error=-5
[ 1806.250036] md/raid1:md1: Disk failure on nvme2n1, disabling device.
               md/raid1:md1: Operation continuing on 1 devices.

- Enter qemu monitor, and re-attach the controller:
  device_add bus=rp90,id=nvme-rp90,serial=SLESNVME3,subsys=nvme-subsys2

- Check in the OS that the device has been reattached:
# dmesg
[ 1845.634613] pcieport 0000:00:09.0: pciehp: Slot(0-2): Attention
button pressed
[ 1845.634626] pcieport 0000:00:09.0: pciehp: Slot(0-2) Powering on due
to button press
[ 1845.634821] pcieport 0000:00:09.0: pciehp: Slot(0-2): Card present
[ 1845.634826] pcieport 0000:00:09.0: pciehp: Slot(0-2): Link Up
[ 1845.770969] pci 0000:03:00.0: [1b36:0010] type 00 class 0x010802
[ 1845.771307] pci 0000:03:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x00003fff 64bit]
[ 1845.773503] pci 0000:03:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem
0xc1200000-0xc1203fff 64bit]
[ 1845.773646] pcieport 0000:00:09.0: PCI bridge to [bus 03]
[ 1845.773671] pcieport 0000:00:09.0:   bridge window [io  0x7000-0x7fff]
[ 1845.776926] pcieport 0000:00:09.0:   bridge window [mem
0xc1200000-0xc13fffff]
[ 1845.778816] pcieport 0000:00:09.0:   bridge window [mem
0x804000000-0x805ffffff 64bit pref]
[ 1845.783970] nvme nvme2: pci function 0000:03:00.0
[ 1845.784227] nvme 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 1845.798918] nvme nvme2: 1/0/0 default/read/poll queues

- Reattach the namespace to the MD RAID:
# mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --re-add /dev/nvme2n1

- Check that everything worked:
# # cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 nvme2n1[1] nvme1n1[0]
      4189184 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
      bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk

unused devices: <none>

So you can add:

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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