Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: don't remove raid type sysfs entries until unmount

[David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 01:17:50PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On 05/22/2014 11:05 AM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> > - gpg control packet
> > On 5/22/14, 8:19 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
> >> Can we safely reinit a kobject that has been put in use in sysfs?
> >> Given all the things that can hold refs etc is this legal?
> > 
> > It depends on how the kobject is being used.
> > 
> > It wouldn't be safe to re-use the kobject embedded in space_info since
> > it controls the lifetime of the object, regardless of its use in sysfs.
> > 
> > The kobjects for block groups only exist for creating the
> > subdirectories and their lifetime is actually the lifetime of the
> > space_info. We take a reference to the space_info when we add them to
> > sysfs because that's where they draw their data. The only reference to
> > a block group kobject is taken when we add it to sysfs and is dropped
> > when we remove it. Holding a sysfs file open doesn't pin the kobject,
> > so once we remove it from sysfs (kobject_del waits for readers to
> > complete), it's safe to reinitialize it.
> > 
> 
> Fair enough, once you've tested this new patch a bit I'll drop mine for
> yours.

With a fixup in __link_block_group

-               kobject->name = get_raid_name(index);
+               kobj->name = get_raid_name(index);

it crashes right away, tests/btrfs/001, patch applied on top of 3.15-rc6,
I haven't analyzed the cause yet.

[  520.880250] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  520.884185] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3376!
[  520.884185] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[  520.884185] Modules linked in: rpcsec_gss_krb5 dm_crypt loop btrfs
[  520.884185] CPU: 1 PID: 3698 Comm: umount Not tainted 3.15.0-rc6-default+ #144
[  520.884185] Hardware name: Intel Corporation Santa Rosa platform/Matanzas, BIOS TSRSCRB1.86C.0047.B00.0610170821 10/17/06
[  520.884185] task: ffff880075892370 ti: ffff88006e0ce000 task.ti: ffff88006e0ce000
[  520.884185] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8116efcf>]  [<ffffffff8116efcf>] kfree+0x1bf/0x1d0
[  520.884185] RSP: 0018:ffff88006e0cfcb8  EFLAGS: 00010246
[  520.884185] RAX: 4000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffa00bb63e RCX: 0000000180190007
[  520.884185] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffea0001d5ad40 RDI: ffffffffa00bb63e
[  520.884185] RBP: ffff88006e0cfce8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
[  520.884185] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffea0000802ec0
[  520.884185] R13: ffffffff813ba137 R14: ffffffffa00bb63e R15: 0000000000000003
[  520.884185] FS:  00007fba2c0cd7e0(0000) GS:ffff88007d400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  520.884185] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[  520.884185] CR2: 00007fba2b759610 CR3: 00000000756a6000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
[  520.884185] Stack:
[  520.884185]  ffff88007a849000 ffffffffa00cde20 ffff880075950be0 ffff880075950ba8
[  520.884185]  ffffffffa00bb63e 0000000000000003 ffff88006e0cfd18 ffffffff813ba137
[  520.884185]  ffff880075950ba8 ffff880075950800 ffff8800755e5a58 0000000000000004
[  520.884185] Call Trace:
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff813ba137>] kobject_release+0xa7/0x1d0
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff813ba291>] kobject_put+0x31/0x70
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffffa00223ca>] btrfs_free_block_groups+0x30a/0x420 [btrfs]
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffffa002f939>] close_ctree+0x149/0x2e0 [btrfs]
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff8119560f>] ? dispose_list+0x4f/0x60
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff81196544>] ? evict_inodes+0x114/0x130
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffffa00019b9>] btrfs_put_super+0x19/0x20 [btrfs]
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff8117c78e>] generic_shutdown_super+0x7e/0x110
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff8117c8b6>] kill_anon_super+0x16/0x30
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffffa000289a>] btrfs_kill_super+0x1a/0xa0 [btrfs]
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff8117c94d>] deactivate_locked_super+0x4d/0x80
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff8117cf5a>] deactivate_super+0x4a/0x70
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff8119a341>] mntput_no_expire+0x111/0x180
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff8119a247>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x17/0x180
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff81190213>] ? dput+0x23/0x110
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff8119b8eb>] SyS_umount+0xcb/0x420
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff81a16092>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  520.884185]  [<ffffffff81a16092>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  520.884185] Code: c4 40 74 05 41 8b 74 24 68 4c 89 e7 e8 4b 25 fc ff e9 4f ff ff ff 49 8b 44 24 30 49 8b 14 24 80 e6 80 4c 0f 45 e0 e9 ae fe ff ff <0f> 0b 66 66 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5
[  520.884185] RIP  [<ffffffff8116efcf>] kfree+0x1bf/0x1d0
[  520.884185]  RSP <ffff88006e0cfcb8>
[  521.242658] ---[ end trace 4228a5dbb43499c0 ]---