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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VFS deadlock ?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:36:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130321203639.GC16406@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwyK4uDgSKUpXBGS5zi16qd8STtrGi3kndunYi40dnj+A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:32:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > those are qstr's, so I used d_name.name, right ?
 > 
 > Yup. And if you want to, you could do p1->d_parent->d_name.name too,
 > just to make things obvious. It's technically racy, but by the time
 > the bug happens, who cares?

I'll add that next time around if the current run doesn't turn up anything interesting.
 
 > > I'd be surprised actually, I've got sysfs excluded from its list of victim files,
 > > due to unrelated issues still unresolved.  So unless it followed a symlink into
 > > sys from somewhere in /proc or /dev...
 > >
 > > It took a few hours to reproduce last time, I'll increase the number of child
 > > processes to see if I can trigger it faster now that I have the debug stuff in there.
 > 
 > Hmm, ok. Do you have any network mounts or fuse or other "odd"
 > filesystems etc? The whole "aliased inodes" thing might come from
 > something like that.

at some point during the fuzz run, this happened..

Mar 20 15:20:41 kernel: [ 7578.784674] fuse init (API version 7.21)
Mar 20 15:20:41 systemd[1]: Mounting FUSE Control File System...
Mar 20 15:20:41 systemd[1]: Mounted FUSE Control File System.

I guess something wandered into /dev/fuse and did something. Not sure why 
systemd reacted though...

	Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-21 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-21 19:06 VFS deadlock ? Dave Jones
2013-03-21 19:21 ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 20:31   ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 19:29 ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 20:15   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 20:26     ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 20:32       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 20:36         ` Dave Jones [this message]
2013-03-21 20:47           ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 21:02             ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 21:18               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 21:26                 ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 21:41                   ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 21:47                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 21:55                       ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 21:57                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 22:03                           ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 21:52                     ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 22:12                 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 22:29                   ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 22:53                   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 23:07                     ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 23:36                     ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 23:58                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22  0:01                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22  0:12                           ` Al Viro
2013-03-22  0:20                             ` Al Viro
2013-03-22  0:22                             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22  1:22                               ` Al Viro
2013-03-22  1:33                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22  1:40                                   ` Al Viro
2013-03-22  4:37                                     ` [CFT] " Al Viro
2013-03-22  4:55                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22  5:18                                         ` Al Viro
2013-03-22  5:33                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22  6:09                                             ` Al Viro
2013-03-22  6:22                                               ` Al Viro
2013-03-22 16:23                                             ` Dave Jones
2013-03-22 19:43                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22 21:28                                               ` Al Viro
2013-03-22 22:57                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-22  5:19                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22  0:08                         ` Al Viro
2013-03-22  0:15                           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22  0:19                             ` Linus Torvalds

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