Re: [PATCH] nvme: fix deadlock between reset and scan

[yaoma]

Hi Keith Busch

Thanks for your reply.

The idea to avoid such a deadlock between nvme_reset and nvme_scan is to 
ensure that no namespace can be added to ctrl->namespaces after 
nvme_start_freeze has already been called. We can achieve this goal by 
assessing the ctrl->state after we have already acquired the 
ctrl->namespaces_rwsem lock, to decide whether to add the namespace to 
the list or not.
1. After we determine that ctrl->state is LIVE, it may be immediately 
changed to another state. However, since we have already acquired the 
lock, other tasks cannot access ctrl->namespace, so we can still safely 
add the namespace to the list. After acquiring the lock, 
nvme_start_freeze will freeze all ns->q in the list, including any newly 
added namespaces.
2. Before the completion of nvme_reset, ctrl->state will not be changed 
to LIVE, so we will not add any more namespaces to the list. All ns->q 
in the list is frozen, so nvme_wait_freeze can exit normally.


On 2023/11/28 02:07, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 07:00:13PM +0800, Bitao Hu wrote:
> > @@ -3631,6 +3631,11 @@ static void nvme_alloc_ns(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvme_ns_info *info)
> >   		goto out_unlink_ns;
> >   
> >   	down_write(&ctrl->namespaces_rwsem);
> > +	/* preventing adding ns during resetting */
> > +	if (unlikely(ctrl->state != NVME_CTRL_LIVE)) {
>
> We can't rely on ctrl->state for preventing deadlocks. Reading unlocked
> ctrl->state is often used, but should be considered advisory-only since
> the state could change immediatly after reading it.
>
> > +		up_write(&ctrl->namespaces_rwsem);
> > +		goto out_unlink_ns;
> > +	}
> >   	nvme_ns_add_to_ctrl_list(ns);
> >   	up_write(&ctrl->namespaces_rwsem);
> >   	nvme_get_ctrl(ctrl);