Re: [bug report] kernel 5.18.0-rc4 oops with invalid wait context

[dai.ngo@oracle.com]

On 5/11/22 11:57 AM, Chuck Lever III wrote:
>
>> On May 11, 2022, at 1:31 PM, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 16:27 +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
>>>
>>>> On May 11, 2022, at 12:09 PM, Trond Myklebust
>>>> <trondmy@hammerspace.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 14:57 +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On May 10, 2022, at 10:24 AM, Chuck Lever III
>>>>>> <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On May 3, 2022, at 3:11 PM, dai.ngo@oracle.com wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just noticed there were couple of oops in my Oracle6 in
>>>>>>> nfs4.dev network.
>>>>>>> I'm not sure who ran which tests (be useful to know) that
>>>>>>> caused
>>>>>>> these oops.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here is the stack traces:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [286123.154006] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
>>>>>>> context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1585
>>>>>>> [286123.155126] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0,
>>>>>>> non_block: 0,
>>>>>>> pid: 3983, name: nfsd
>>>>>>> [286123.155872] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
>>>>>>> [286123.156443] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
>>>>>>> [286123.156771] 1 lock held by nfsd/3983:
>>>>>>> [286123.156786]  #0: ffff888006762520 (&clp->cl_lock){+.+.}-
>>>>>>> {2:2}, at: nfsd4_release_lockowner+0x306/0x850 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.156949] Preemption disabled at:
>>>>>>> [286123.156961] [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
>>>>>>> [286123.157520] CPU: 1 PID: 3983 Comm: nfsd Kdump: loaded Not
>>>>>>> tainted 5.18.0-rc4+ #1
>>>>>>> [286123.157539] Hardware name: innotek GmbH
>>>>>>> VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
>>>>>>> [286123.157552] Call Trace:
>>>>>>> [286123.157565]  <TASK>
>>>>>>> [286123.157581]  dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d
>>>>>>> [286123.157609]  __might_resched.cold+0x222/0x26b
>>>>>>> [286123.157644]  down_read_nested+0x68/0x420
>>>>>>> [286123.157671]  ? down_write_nested+0x130/0x130
>>>>>>> [286123.157686]  ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
>>>>>>> [286123.157705]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x81/0xb0
>>>>>>> [286123.157749]  xfs_file_fsync+0x3b9/0x820
>>>>>>> [286123.157776]  ? lock_downgrade+0x680/0x680
>>>>>>> [286123.157798]  ? xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite+0x10/0x10
>>>>>>> [286123.157823]  ? nfsd_file_put+0x100/0x100 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.157921]  nfsd_file_flush.isra.0+0x1b/0x220 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.158007]  nfsd_file_put+0x79/0x100 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.158088]  check_for_locks+0x152/0x200 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.158191]  nfsd4_release_lockowner+0x4cf/0x850 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.158393]  ? nfsd4_locku+0xd10/0xd10 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.158488]  ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x90/0x90
>>>>>>> [286123.158525]  nfsd4_proc_compound+0xd15/0x25a0 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.158699]  nfsd_dispatch+0x4ed/0xc30 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.158974]  ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x90/0x90
>>>>>>> [286123.159010]  svc_process_common+0xd8e/0x1b20 [sunrpc]
>>>>>>> [286123.159043]  ? svc_generic_rpcbind_set+0x450/0x450
>>>>>>> [sunrpc]
>>>>>>> [286123.159043]  ? nfsd_svc+0xc50/0xc50 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.159043]  ? svc_sock_secure_port+0x27/0x40 [sunrpc]
>>>>>>> [286123.159043]  ? svc_recv+0x1100/0x2390 [sunrpc]
>>>>>>> [286123.159043]  svc_process+0x361/0x4f0 [sunrpc]
>>>>>>> [286123.159043]  nfsd+0x2d6/0x570 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.159043]  ? nfsd_shutdown_threads+0x2a0/0x2a0 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.159043]  kthread+0x29f/0x340
>>>>>>> [286123.159043]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
>>>>>>> [286123.159043]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
>>>>>>> [286123.159043]  </TASK>
>>>>>>> [286123.187052] BUG: scheduling while atomic:
>>>>>>> nfsd/3983/0x00000002
>>>>>>> [286123.187551] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
>>>>>>> [286123.187918] Modules linked in: nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl
>>>>>>> lockd
>>>>>>> grace sunrpc
>>>>>>> [286123.188527] Preemption disabled at:
>>>>>>> [286123.188535] [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
>>>>>>> [286123.189255] CPU: 1 PID: 3983 Comm: nfsd Kdump: loaded
>>>>>>> Tainted: G        W         5.18.0-rc4+ #1
>>>>>>> [286123.190233] Hardware name: innotek GmbH
>>>>>>> VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
>>>>>>> [286123.190910] Call Trace:
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  <TASK>
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  __schedule_bug.cold+0x133/0x143
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  __schedule+0x16c9/0x20a0
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? schedule_timeout+0x314/0x510
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? __sched_text_start+0x8/0x8
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? internal_add_timer+0xa4/0xe0
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  schedule+0xd7/0x1f0
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  schedule_timeout+0x319/0x510
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0xe/0xa0
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? usleep_range_state+0x150/0x150
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? lock_acquire+0x331/0x490
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? init_timer_on_stack_key+0x50/0x50
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x116/0x260
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  io_schedule_timeout+0x26/0x80
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  wait_for_completion_io_timeout+0x16a/0x340
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x90/0x90
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? wait_for_completion+0x330/0x330
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  submit_bio_wait+0x135/0x1d0
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? submit_bio_wait_endio+0x40/0x40
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? xfs_iunlock+0xd5/0x300
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? bio_init+0x295/0x470
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  blkdev_issue_flush+0x69/0x80
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? blk_unregister_queue+0x1e0/0x1e0
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? bio_kmalloc+0x90/0x90
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? xfs_iunlock+0x1b4/0x300
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  xfs_file_fsync+0x354/0x820
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? lock_downgrade+0x680/0x680
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite+0x10/0x10
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? nfsd_file_put+0x100/0x100 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  nfsd_file_flush.isra.0+0x1b/0x220 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  nfsd_file_put+0x79/0x100 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  check_for_locks+0x152/0x200 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  nfsd4_release_lockowner+0x4cf/0x850 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? nfsd4_locku+0xd10/0xd10 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x90/0x90
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  nfsd4_proc_compound+0xd15/0x25a0 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  nfsd_dispatch+0x4ed/0xc30 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x90/0x90
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  svc_process_common+0xd8e/0x1b20 [sunrpc]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? svc_generic_rpcbind_set+0x450/0x450
>>>>>>> [sunrpc]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? nfsd_svc+0xc50/0xc50 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? svc_sock_secure_port+0x27/0x40 [sunrpc]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? svc_recv+0x1100/0x2390 [sunrpc]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  svc_process+0x361/0x4f0 [sunrpc]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  nfsd+0x2d6/0x570 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? nfsd_shutdown_threads+0x2a0/0x2a0 [nfsd]
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  kthread+0x29f/0x340
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
>>>>>>> [286123.190910]  </TASK>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The problem is the process tries to sleep while holding the
>>>>>>> cl_lock by nfsd4_release_lockowner. I think the problem was
>>>>>>> introduced with the filemap_flush in nfsd_file_put since
>>>>>>> 'b6669305d35a nfsd: Reduce the number of calls to
>>>>>>> nfsd_file_gc()'.
>>>>>>> The filemap_flush is later replaced by nfsd_file_flush by
>>>>>>> '6b8a94332ee4f nfsd: Fix a write performance regression'.
>>>>>> That seems plausible, given the traces above.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But it begs the question: why was a vfs_fsync() needed by
>>>>>> RELEASE_LOCKOWNER in this case? I've tried to reproduce the
>>>>>> problem, and even added a might_sleep() call in
>>>>>> nfsd_file_flush()
>>>>>> but haven't been able to reproduce.
>>>>> Trond, I'm assuming you switched to a synchronous flush here to
>>>>> capture writeback errors. There's no other requirement for
>>>>> waiting for the flush to complete, right?
>>>> It's because the file is unhashed, so it is about to be closed and
>>>> garbage collected as soon as the refcount goes to zero.
>>>>
>>>>> To enable nfsd_file_put() to be invoked in atomic contexts again,
>>>>> would the following be a reasonable short term fix:
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
>>>>> index 2c1b027774d4..96c8d07788f4 100644
>>>>> --- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
>>>>> +++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
>>>>> @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ nfsd_file_put(struct nfsd_file *nf)
>>>>>   {
>>>>>          set_bit(NFSD_FILE_REFERENCED, &nf->nf_flags);
>>>>>          if (test_bit(NFSD_FILE_HASHED, &nf->nf_flags) == 0) {
>>>>> -               nfsd_file_flush(nf);
>>>>> +               filemap_flush(nf->nf_file->f_mapping);
>>>>>                  nfsd_file_put_noref(nf);
>>>>>          } else {
>>>>>                  nfsd_file_put_noref(nf);
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> filemap_flush() sleeps, and so does nfsd_file_put_noref() (it can
>>>> call
>>>> filp_close() + fput()), so this kind of change isn't going to work
>>>> no
>>>> matter how you massage it.
>>> Er. Wouldn't that mean we would have seen "sleep while spinlock is
>>> held" BUGs since nfsd4_release_lockowner() was added? It's done
>>> at least an fput() while holding clp->cl_lock since it was added,
>>> I think.
>>
>> There is nothing magical about using WB_SYNC_NONE as far as the
>> writeback code is concerned. write_cache_pages() will still happily
>> call lock_page() and sleep on that lock if it is contended. The
>> writepage/writepages code will happily try to allocate memory if
>> necessary.
>>
>> The only difference is that it won't sleep waiting for the PG_writeback
>> bit.
>>
>> So, no, you can't safely call filemap_flush() from a spin locked
>> context, and
>> yes, the bug has been there from day 1. It was not introduced by me.
>>
>> Also, as I said, nfsd_file_put_noref() is not safe to call from a spin
>> locked context. Again, this was not introduced any time recently.
> OK. I'm trying to figure out how bad the problem is and how
> far back to apply the fix.
>
> I agree that the arrangement of the code path means
> nfsd4_release_lockowner() has always called fput() or
> filemap_flush() while cl_lock was held.
>
> But again, I'm not aware of recent instances of this particular
> splat. So I'm wondering if a recent change has made this issue
> easier to hit. We might not be able to answer that until we
> find out how the bake-a-thon testers managed to trigger the
> issue on Dai's server.

I'm able to reproduce this problem with unmodified 5.18.0-rc6
by enhancing the pynfs st_releaselockowner.py to remove the
file before sending the RELEASE_LOCKOWNER.

Here is the diff of the test:

[root@nfsvmf25 pynfs]# git diff nfs4.0/servertests/st_releaselockowner.py
diff --git a/nfs4.0/servertests/st_releaselockowner.py b/nfs4.0/servertests/st_releaselockowner.py
index ccd10fff3ffa..a32f8ed70634 100644
--- a/nfs4.0/servertests/st_releaselockowner.py
+++ b/nfs4.0/servertests/st_releaselockowner.py
@@ -19,8 +19,12 @@ def testFile(t, env):
      res = c.unlock_file(1, fh, res.lockid)
      check(res)
      
+    ops = c.use_obj(c.homedir) + [op.remove(t.word())]
+    res = c.compound(ops)
+    check(res)
  
      # Release lockowner
      owner = lock_owner4(c.clientid, b"lockowner_RLOWN1")
      res = c.compound([op.release_lockowner(owner)])
      check(res)
[root@nfsvmf25 pynfs]#

Here is the stack traces of the problem:

May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1513
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 4234, name: nfsd
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: INFO: lockdep is turned off.
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: Preemption disabled at:
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 4234 Comm: nfsd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W         5.18.0-rc6 #1
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: <TASK>
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: __might_resched.cold+0x222/0x26b
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: down_write+0x61/0x130
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? down_write_killable_nested+0x150/0x150
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: btrfs_inode_lock+0x38/0x70
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: btrfs_sync_file+0x291/0x1020
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x90/0x90
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? lock_acquire+0x2f1/0x490
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? start_ordered_ops.constprop.0+0xe0/0xe0
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? find_any_file+0x64/0x100 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? nfsd_file_put+0x100/0x100 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: nfsd_file_flush.isra.0+0x1b/0x220 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: nfsd_file_put+0x79/0x100 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: check_for_locks+0x152/0x200 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: nfsd4_release_lockowner+0x4cf/0x850 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? lock_downgrade+0x680/0x680
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? nfsd4_locku+0xd10/0xd10 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x90/0x90
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: nfsd4_proc_compound+0xd15/0x25a0 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0xe/0xa0
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: nfsd_dispatch+0x4ed/0xc30 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? svc_reserve+0xb5/0x130 [sunrpc]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: svc_process_common+0xd8e/0x1b20 [sunrpc]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? svc_generic_rpcbind_set+0x450/0x450 [sunrpc]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? nfsd_svc+0xc50/0xc50 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? svc_sock_secure_port+0x36/0x40 [sunrpc]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? svc_recv+0x1100/0x2390 [sunrpc]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: svc_process+0x361/0x4f0 [sunrpc]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: nfsd+0x2d6/0x570 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? nfsd_shutdown_threads+0x2a0/0x2a0 [nfsd]
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: kthread+0x29f/0x340
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
May 11 18:11:54 localhost kernel: </TASK>

-Dai

>
>
>>>> Is there any reason why you need a reference to the nfs_file there?
>>>> Wouldn't holding the fp->fi_lock be sufficient, since you're
>>>> already in
>>>> an atomic context? As long as one of the entries in fp->fi_fds[] is
>>>> non-zero then you should be safe.
>>> Sure, check_for_locks() seems to be the only problematic caller.
>>> Other callers appear to be careful to call nfsd_file_put() only
>>> after releasing spinlocks.
>>>
>>> I would like a fix that can be backported without fuss. I was
>>> thinking changing check_for_locks() might get a little too
>>> hairy for that, but I'll check it out.
> Notably: check_for_locks() needs to drop fi_lock before taking
> flc_lock because the OPEN path can take flc_lock first, then
> fi_lock, via nfsd_break_deleg_cb(). Holding a reference to the
> nfsd_file guarantees that the inode won't go away while
> check_for_locks() examines the flc_posix list without holding
> fi_lock.
>
> So my first take on this was we need nfsd4_release_lockowner()
> to drop cl_lock before check_for_locks() is called.
>
>
> --
> Chuck Lever
>
>
>