Re: [PATCH] Re: [2.6.20] BUG: workqueue leaked lock

Oleg Nesterov
2007-03-21T14:42:23Z

On 03/21, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:07:59PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 03/20, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> ...
> > > >>> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:06 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >>>>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:50:14 +0100 Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> wrote:
> > > >>>>> ...
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.728209] BUG: workqueue leaked lock or atomic: nfsd4/0x00000000/3577
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.728271] last function: laundromat_main+0x0/0x69 [nfsd]
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.728392] 2 locks held by nfsd4/3577:
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.728435] #0: (client_mutex){--..}, at: [<c1205b88>] mutex_lock+0x8/0xa
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.728679] #1: (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c1205b88>] mutex_lock+0x8/0xa
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.728923] [<c1003d57>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.729015] [<c1003d7f>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.729103] [<c1003e79>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.729187] [<c102c2e8>] run_workqueue+0x167/0x170
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.729276] [<c102c437>] worker_thread+0x146/0x165
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.729368] [<c102f797>] kthread+0x97/0xc4
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.729456] [<c1003bdb>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> > > >>>>> [ 1756.729547] =======================
> ...
> > > This check is valid with keventd, but it looks like nfsd runs
> > > kthread by itself. I'm not sure it's illegal to hold locks then,
> >
> > nfsd creates laundry_wq by itself, yes, but cwq->thread runs with
> > lockdep_depth() == 0. Unless we have a bug with lockdep_depth(),
> > lockdep_depth() != 0 means that work->func() returns with a lock
> > held (or it can flush its own workqueue under lock, but in that case
> > we should have a different trace).
>
> IMHO you can only say this thread is supposed to run with
> lockdep_depth() == 0. lockdep_depth is counted within a process,
> which starts before f(), so the only way to say f() leaked locks
> is to check these locks before and after f().

Sorry, I can't understand you. lockdep_depth is counted within a process,
which starts before f(), yes. This process is cwq->thread, it was forked
during create_workqueue(). It does not take any locks directly, only by
calling work->func(). laundry_wq doesn't differ from keventd_wq or any other
wq in this sense. nfsd does not "runs kthread by itself", it inserts the
work and wakes up cwq->thread.

> > Personally I agree with Andrew:
> > >
> > > > OK. That's not necessarily a bug: one could envisage a (weird) piece of
> > > > code which takes a lock then releases it on a later workqueue invokation.
>
> But this code is named here as laundromat_main and it doesn't
> seem to work like this.

This means we have a problem with leak detection.

> > > + ld = lockdep_depth(current);
> > > +
> > > f(work);
> > >
> > > - if (unlikely(in_atomic() || lockdep_depth(current) > 0)) {
> > > + if (unlikely(in_atomic() || (ld -= lockdep_depth(current)))) {
> >
> > and with this change we will also have a BUG report on "then releases it on a
> > later workqueue invokation".
>
> Then we could say at least this code is weird (buggy - in my opinion).
> This patch doesn't change the way the "standard" code is treated,
> so I cannot see any possibility to get it worse then now.

I didn't mean this patch makes things worse (except it conflicts with other
patches in -mm tree). In fact, it may improve the diagnostics. My point is
that this patch afaics has nothing to do with the discussed problem.

Oleg.