Re: [PATCH] ceph: fix cap ref leak via netfs init_request

[David Howells]

Patrick Donnelly <batrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Log recovered from a user's cluster:
> 
>     <7>[ 5413.970692] ceph:  get_cap_refs 00000000958c114b ret 1 got Fr
>     <7>[ 5413.970695] ceph:  start_read 00000000958c114b, no cache cap
>     ...
>     <7>[ 5473.934609] ceph:   my wanted = Fr, used = Fr, dirty -
>     <7>[ 5473.934616] ceph:  revocation: pAsLsXsFr -> pAsLsXs (revoking Fr)
>     <7>[ 5473.934632] ceph:  __ceph_caps_issued 00000000958c114b cap 00000000f7784259 issued pAsLsXs
>     <7>[ 5473.934638] ceph:  check_caps 10000000e68.fffffffffffffffe file_want - used Fr dirty - flushing - issued pAsLsXs revoking Fr retain pAsLsXsFsr  AUTHONLY NOINVAL FLUSH_FORCE
> 
> The MDS subsequently complains that the kernel client is late releasing caps.
> 
> Approximately, a series of changes to this code by the three commits cited
> below resulted in subtle resource cleanup to be missed. The main culprit is the
> change in error handling in 2d31604 which meant that a failure in init_request
> would no longer cause cleanup to be called. That would prevent the
> ceph_put_cap_refs which would cleanup the leaked cap ref.
> 
> Closes: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/67008
> Fixes: 49870056005ca9387e5ee31451991491f99cc45f ("ceph: convert ceph_readpages to ceph_readahead")
> Fixes: 2de160417315b8d64455fe03e9bb7d3308ac3281 ("netfs: Change ->init_request() to return an error code")
> Fixes: a5c9dc4451394b2854493944dcc0ff71af9705a3 ("ceph: Make ceph_init_request() check caps on readahead")

Note that you only need the first 12 digits of the SHA1 sum.

> Signed-off-by: Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>