Re: [lkp] [direct] 187372a3b9: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3999 at fs/ext4/inode.c:3315 ext4_direct_IO+0x56d/0x5b0()

Darrick J. Wong
2016-02-18T02:57:45Z

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:39:29AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 08:38:10AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> > FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master
> > commit 187372a3b9faff68ed61c291d0135e6739e0dbdf ("direct-io: always call ->end_io if non-NULL")
> >
> >
> > run fstests generic/299 at 2016-02-16 06:10:03
> > EXT4-fs (sda8): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: acl,user_xattr
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3999 at fs/ext4/inode.c:3315 ext4_direct_IO+0x56d/0x5b0()
> .....
> > [<ffffffff81422e52>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x69
> > [<ffffffff8107a476>] warn_slowpath_common+0x86/0xc0
> > [<ffffffff8107a56a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
> > [<ffffffff81282a2d>] ext4_direct_IO+0x56d/0x5b0
> > [<ffffffff811719ea>] generic_file_direct_write+0xaa/0x170
> > [<ffffffff81171b70>] __generic_file_write_iter+0xc0/0x1f0
> > [<ffffffff8127d201>] ext4_file_write_iter+0x141/0x430
> > [<ffffffff81242436>] aio_run_iocb+0x226/0x290
> > [<ffffffff8124353d>] do_io_submit+0x29d/0x530
> > [<ffffffff812437e0>] SyS_io_submit+0x10/0x20
> > [<ffffffff818e012e>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
>
> 3309 /*
> 3310 * When no IO was submitted ext4_end_io_dio() was not
> 3311 * called so we have to put iocb's reference.
> 3312 */
> 3313 if (ret <= 0 && ret != -EIOCBQUEUED && iocb->private) {
> 3314 WARN_ON(iocb->private != io_end);
> 3315 >>>>>>>> WARN_ON(io_end->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN);
> 3316 ext4_put_io_end(io_end);
> 3317 iocb->private = NULL;
> 3318 }
>
> Pre-existing ext4 issue. It assumes that unwritten extent conversion
> occurs even on IO submission error. i.e. when we avoid the stale
> data exposure bug that the bisect-blamed commit fixed, ext4 warns
> that it failed to expose stale data....
>
> I'd just remove that warning, but I have no idea how that impacts on
> the rest of ext4's end IO handling. Christoph, Ted, the ball is in
> your court for this one.

Oh, heh, guess it's time to send my fixpatch for that one. :)

--D

>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com
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