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From: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] btrfs: drop uuid_mutex in btrfs_free_extra_devids()
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:53:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180810055321.19730-2-anand.jain@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180810055321.19730-1-anand.jain@oracle.com>

btrfs_free_extra_devids() is called only in the mount context which
traverses through the fs_devices::devices and frees the orphan devices
devices in the given %fs_devices if any. As the search for the orphan
device is limited to fs_devices::devices so we don't need the global
uuid_mutex.

There can't be any mount-point based ioctl threads in this context as
the mount thread is not yet returned. But there can be the btrfs-control
based scan ioctls thread which calls device_list_add().

Here in the mount thread the fs_devices::opened is incremented way before
btrfs_free_extra_devids() is called and in the scan context the fs_devices
which are already opened neither be freed or alloc-able at
device_list_add().

But lets say you change the device-path and call the scan again, then scan
would update the new device path and this operation could race against the
btrfs_free_extra_devids() thread, which might be in the process of
free-ing the same device. So synchronize it by using the
device_list_mutex.

This scenario is a very corner case, and practically the scan and mount
are anyway serialized by the usage so unless the race is instrumented its
very difficult to achieve.

Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
---
v3->v4: As we traverse through the seed device, fs_device gets updated with
	the child seed fs_devices, so make sure we use the same fs_devices
	pointer for the mutex_unlock as used for the mutex_lock.
v2->v3: Update change log.
	(Currently device_list_add() is very lean on its device_list_mutex usage,
	a cleanup and fix is wip. Given the practicality of the above race
	condition this patch is good to merge).
v1->v2: replace uuid_mutex with device_list_mutex instead of delete.
	change log updated.

 fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index f4405e430da6..f277df935e7c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -934,8 +934,9 @@ void btrfs_free_extra_devids(struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices, int step)
 {
 	struct btrfs_device *device, *next;
 	struct btrfs_device *latest_dev = NULL;
+	struct btrfs_fs_devices *parent_fs_devices = fs_devices;
 
-	mutex_lock(&uuid_mutex);
+	mutex_lock(&parent_fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
 again:
 	/* This is the initialized path, it is safe to release the devices. */
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(device, next, &fs_devices->devices, dev_list) {
@@ -989,8 +990,7 @@ void btrfs_free_extra_devids(struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices, int step)
 	}
 
 	fs_devices->latest_bdev = latest_dev->bdev;
-
-	mutex_unlock(&uuid_mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&parent_fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
 }
 
 static void free_device_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
-- 
2.7.0

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-10  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-10  5:53 [PATCH v2 0/3] Misc volume patch set part2 Anand Jain
2018-08-10  5:53 ` Anand Jain [this message]
2018-08-10  5:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: assert for num_devices below 0 Anand Jain
2018-08-10 10:46   ` David Sterba
2018-08-15 12:11   ` David Sterba
2018-08-16  2:09     ` Anand Jain
2018-08-10  5:53 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] btrfs: add helper btrfs_num_devices() to deduce num_devices Anand Jain
2018-08-10 10:45   ` David Sterba
2018-08-15 12:20 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Misc volume patch set part2 David Sterba
2018-08-16  2:59   ` Anand Jain

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