xfs_repair: retain superblock buffer to avoid write hook deadlock
Every now and then I experience the following deadlock in xfs_repair
when I'm running the offline repair fuzz tests:
#0 futex_wait (private=0, expected=2, futex_word=0x55555566df70) at ../sysdeps/nptl/futex-internal.h:146
#1 __GI___lll_lock_wait (futex=futex@entry=0x55555566df70, private=0) at ./nptl/lowlevellock.c:49
#2 lll_mutex_lock_optimized (mutex=0x55555566df70) at ./nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c:48
#3 ___pthread_mutex_lock (mutex=mutex@entry=0x55555566df70) at ./nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c:93
#4 cache_shake (cache=cache@entry=0x55555566de60, priority=priority@entry=2, purge=purge@entry=false) at cache.c:231
#5 cache_node_get (cache=cache@entry=0x55555566de60, key=key@entry=0x7fffe55e01b0, nodep=nodep@entry=0x7fffe55e0168) at cache.c:452
#6 __cache_lookup (key=key@entry=0x7fffe55e01b0, flags=0, bpp=bpp@entry=0x7fffe55e0228) at rdwr.c:405
#7 libxfs_getbuf_flags (btp=0x55555566de00, blkno=0, len=<optimized out>, flags=<optimized out>, bpp=0x7fffe55e0228) at rdwr.c:457
#8 libxfs_buf_read_map (btp=0x55555566de00, map=map@entry=0x7fffe55e0280, nmaps=nmaps@entry=1, flags=flags@entry=0, bpp=bpp@entry=0x7fffe55e0278, ops=0x5555556233e0 <xfs_sb_buf_ops>)
at rdwr.c:704
#9 libxfs_buf_read (ops=<optimized out>, bpp=0x7fffe55e0278, flags=0, numblks=<optimized out>, blkno=0, target=<optimized out>)
at /storage/home/djwong/cdev/work/xfsprogs/build-x86_64/libxfs/libxfs_io.h:195
#10 libxfs_getsb (mp=mp@entry=0x7fffffffd690) at rdwr.c:162
#11 force_needsrepair (mp=0x7fffffffd690) at xfs_repair.c:924
#12 repair_capture_writeback (bp=<optimized out>) at xfs_repair.c:1000
#13 libxfs_bwrite (bp=0x7fffe011e530) at rdwr.c:869
#14 cache_shake (cache=cache@entry=0x55555566de60, priority=priority@entry=2, purge=purge@entry=false) at cache.c:240
#15 cache_node_get (cache=cache@entry=0x55555566de60, key=key@entry=0x7fffe55e0470, nodep=nodep@entry=0x7fffe55e0428) at cache.c:452
#16 __cache_lookup (key=key@entry=0x7fffe55e0470, flags=1, bpp=bpp@entry=0x7fffe55e0538) at rdwr.c:405
#17 libxfs_getbuf_flags (btp=0x55555566de00, blkno=12736, len=<optimized out>, flags=<optimized out>, bpp=0x7fffe55e0538) at rdwr.c:457
#18 __libxfs_buf_get_map (btp=<optimized out>, map=map@entry=0x7fffe55e05b0, nmaps=<optimized out>, flags=flags@entry=1, bpp=bpp@entry=0x7fffe55e0538) at rdwr.c:501
#19 libxfs_buf_get_map (btp=<optimized out>, map=map@entry=0x7fffe55e05b0, nmaps=<optimized out>, flags=flags@entry=1, bpp=bpp@entry=0x7fffe55e0538) at rdwr.c:525
#20 pf_queue_io (args=args@entry=0x5555556722c0, map=map@entry=0x7fffe55e05b0, nmaps=<optimized out>, flag=flag@entry=11) at prefetch.c:124
#21 pf_read_bmbt_reclist (args=0x5555556722c0, rp=<optimized out>, numrecs=78) at prefetch.c:220
#22 pf_scan_lbtree (dbno=dbno@entry=1211, level=level@entry=1, isadir=isadir@entry=1, args=args@entry=0x5555556722c0, func=0x55555557f240 <pf_scanfunc_bmap>) at prefetch.c:298
#23 pf_read_btinode (isadir=1, dino=<optimized out>, args=0x5555556722c0) at prefetch.c:385
#24 pf_read_inode_dirs (args=args@entry=0x5555556722c0, bp=bp@entry=0x7fffdc023790) at prefetch.c:459
#25 pf_read_inode_dirs (bp=<optimized out>, args=0x5555556722c0) at prefetch.c:411
#26 pf_batch_read (args=args@entry=0x5555556722c0, which=which@entry=PF_PRIMARY, buf=buf@entry=0x7fffd001d000) at prefetch.c:609
#27 pf_io_worker (param=0x5555556722c0) at prefetch.c:673
#28 start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at ./nptl/pthread_create.c:442
#29 clone3 () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:81
>From this stack trace, we see that xfs_repair's prefetch module is
getting some xfs_buf objects ahead of initiating a read (#19). The
buffer cache has hit its limit, so it calls cache_shake (#14) to free
some unused xfs_bufs. The buffer it finds is a dirty buffer, so it
calls libxfs_bwrite to flush it out to disk, which in turn invokes the
buffer write hook that xfs_repair set up in
3b7667cb to mark the ondisk
filesystem's superblock as NEEDSREPAIR until repair actually completes.
Unfortunately, the NEEDSREPAIR handler itself needs to grab the
superblock buffer, so it makes another call into the buffer cache (#9),
which sees that the cache is full and tries to shake it(#4). Hence we
deadlock on cm_mutex because shaking is not reentrant.
Fix this by retaining a reference to the superblock buffer when possible
so that the writeback hook doesn't have to access the buffer cache to
set NEEDSREPAIR.
Fixes: 3b7667cb ("xfs_repair: set NEEDSREPAIR the first time we write to a filesystem")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>