Re: [PATCH] xfs: new test to ensure xfs can capture IO errors correctly

Darrick J. Wong
2022-10-27T16:06:54Z

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 10:24:59AM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:30:29AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 12:57:47AM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> > > There was a known xfs crash bug fixed by e001873853d8 ("xfs: ensure
> > > we capture IO errors correctly"), so trys to cover this bug and make
> > > sure xfs can capture IO errors correctly, won't panic and hang again.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > When I tried to tidy up our internal test cases recently, I found a very
> > > old case which trys to cover e001873853d8 ("xfs: ensure we capture IO errors
> > > correctly") which fix by Dave. At that time, we didn't support xfs injection,
> > > so we tested it by a systemtap script [1] to inject an ioerror.
> > >
> > > Now this bug has been fixed long long time ago (9+ years), and that stap script
> > > is already out of date, can't work with new kernel. But good news is we have xfs
> > > injection now, so I try to resume this test case in fstests.
> > >
> > > I didn't verify if this case can reproduce that bug on old rhel (which doesn't
> > > support error injection). The original case tried to inject errno 11, I'm
> > > not sure if it's worth trying more other errors. I searched "buf_ioerror" in
> > > fstests, found nothing. So maybe this bug is old enough, but it's worth covering
> > > this kind of test. So feel free to tell me if you have any suggestions :)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Zorro
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > probe module("xfs").function("xfs_buf_bio_end_io")
> > > {
> > > if ($error == 0) {
> > > if ($bio->bi_rw & (1 << 4)) {
> > > $error = -11;
> > > printf("%s: comm %s, pid %d, setting error 11\n",
> > > probefunc(), execname(), pid());
> > > print_stack(backtrace());
> > > }
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > tests/xfs/554 | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > tests/xfs/554.out | 4 ++++
> > > 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100755 tests/xfs/554
> > > create mode 100644 tests/xfs/554.out
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tests/xfs/554 b/tests/xfs/554
> > > new file mode 100755
> > > index 00000000..6935bfc0
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/tests/xfs/554
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
> > > +#! /bin/bash
> > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > +# Copyright (c) 2022 YOUR NAME HERE. All Rights Reserved.
> >
> > Mr. YOUR HERE,
> >
> > Please write your real name in the copyright statement.
> >
> > > +#
> > > +# FS QA Test 554
> > > +#
> > > +# There was a known xfs crash bug fixed by e001873853d8 ("xfs: ensure we
> > > +# capture IO errors correctly"), so trys to cover this bug and make sure
> > > +# xfs can capture IO errors correctly, won't panic and hang again.
> > > +#
> > > +. ./common/preamble
> > > +_begin_fstest auto eio
> > > +
> > > +_cleanup()
> > > +{
> > > + $KILLALL_PROG -q fsstress 2> /dev/null
> > > + # ensures all fsstress processes died
> > > + wait
> > > + # log replay, due to the buf_ioerror injection might leave dirty log
> > > + _scratch_cycle_mount
> > > + cd /
> > > + rm -r -f $tmp.*
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +# Import common functions.
> > > +. ./common/inject
> > > +
> > > +# real QA test starts here
> > > +_supported_fs xfs
> > > +_require_command "$KILLALL_PROG" "killall"
> > > +_require_scratch
> > > +_require_xfs_debug
> > > +_require_xfs_io_error_injection "buf_ioerror"
> > > +
> > > +_scratch_mkfs >> $seqres.full
> > > +_scratch_mount
> > > +
> > > +echo "Inject buf ioerror tag"
> > > +_scratch_inject_error buf_ioerror 11
> > > +
> > > +echo "Random I/Os testing ..."
> > > +$FSSTRESS_PROG $FSSTRESS_AVOID -d $SCRATCH_MNT -n 50000 -p 100 >> $seqres.full &
> > > +for ((i=0; i<5; i++));do
> > > + # Clear caches, then trys to use 'find' to trigger readahead
> >
> > BUF_IOERROR only seems to apply to async writes:
> >
> > static void
> > xfs_buf_bio_end_io(
> > struct bio *bio)
> > {
> > struct xfs_buf *bp = (struct xfs_buf *)bio->bi_private;
> >
> > if (!bio->bi_status &&
> > (bp->b_flags & XBF_WRITE) && (bp->b_flags & XBF_ASYNC) &&
> > XFS_TEST_ERROR(false, bp->b_mount, XFS_ERRTAG_BUF_IOERROR))
> > bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_IOERR;
> >
> > So I don't see how this would reproduce the problem of b_error not being
> > cleared after a failed readahead and re-read?
>
> Oh, "bp->b_flags & XBF_WRITE) && (bp->b_flags & XBF_ASYNC)" ... so I don't
> have chance to cover this bug? I have to abandon this patch, or we'd like to
> change it to be a general async ioerror injection test.

Well you /could/ add a new knob to make readahead fail, that's probably
an interesting case that doesn't get tested much.

--D

> Thanks,
> Zorro
>
> >
> > --D
> >
> > > + echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> > > + find $SCRATCH_MNT >/dev/null 2>&1
> > > + sleep 3
> > > +done
> > > +
> > > +echo "No hang or panic"
> > > +# success, all done
> > > +status=0
> > > +exit
> > > diff --git a/tests/xfs/554.out b/tests/xfs/554.out
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 00000000..26910daa
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/tests/xfs/554.out
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> > > +QA output created by 554
> > > +Inject buf ioerror tag
> > > +Random I/Os testing ...
> > > +No hang or panic
> > > --
> > > 2.31.1
> > >
> >
>