Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/338] 4.19.238-rc1 review

Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
2022-12-17T09:01:48Z

Hi

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:25 PM Trond Myklebust
<trondmy@hammerspace.com> wrote:
>
>
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> > On Dec 16, 2022, at 13:31, Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
> >
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> >
> > Hi Neil
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:29:55PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> >> On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 at 14:09, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 18:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> >>>> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.238 release.
> >>>>> There are 338 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> >>>>> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> >>>>> let me know.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Responses should be made by Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:07:54 +0000.
> >>>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >>>>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.19.238-rc1.gz
> >>>>> or in the git tree and branch at:
> >>>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.19.y
> >>>>> and the diffstat can be found below.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> thanks,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> greg k-h
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Following kernel warning noticed on arm64 Juno-r2 while booting
> >>>> stable-rc 4.19.238. Here is the full test log link [1].
> >>>>
> >>>> [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000100 [0x410fd033]
> >>>> [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.19.238 (tuxmake@tuxmake) (gcc version
> >>>> 11.2.0 (Debian 11.2.0-18)) #1 SMP PREEMPT @1650206156
> >>>> [ 0.000000] Machine model: ARM Juno development board (r2)
> >>>> <trim>
> >>>> [ 18.499895] ================================
> >>>> [ 18.504172] WARNING: inconsistent lock state
> >>>> [ 18.508451] 4.19.238 #1 Not tainted
> >>>> [ 18.511944] --------------------------------
> >>>> [ 18.516222] inconsistent {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} -> {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} usage.
> >>>> [ 18.522242] kworker/u12:3/60 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
> >>>> [ 18.527826] (____ptrval____)
> >>>> (&(&xprt->transport_lock)->rlock){+.?.}, at: xprt_destroy+0x70/0xe0
> >>>> [ 18.536648] {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} state was registered at:
> >>>> [ 18.541543] lock_acquire+0xc8/0x23c
> >>
> >> Prior to Linux 5.3, ->transport_lock needs spin_lock_bh() and
> >> spin_unlock_bh().
> >>
> >
> > We get the same deadlock or similar one and we think that
> > can be connected to this thread on 4.19.243. For us is a bit
> > difficult to hit but we are going to apply this change
> >
> > net: sunrpc: Fix deadlock in xprt_destroy
> >
> > Prior to Linux 5.3, ->transport_lock needs spin_lock_bh() and
> > spin_unlock_bh().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com>
> > ---
> > net/sunrpc/xprt.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
> > index d05fa7c36d00..b1abf4848bbc 100644
> > --- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
> > +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
> > @@ -1550,9 +1550,9 @@ static void xprt_destroy(struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
> > * is cleared. We use ->transport_lock to ensure the mod_timer()
> > * can only run *before* del_time_sync(), never after.
> > */
> > - spin_lock(&xprt->transport_lock);
> > + spin_lock_bh(&xprt->transport_lock);
> > del_timer_sync(&xprt->timer);
> > - spin_unlock(&xprt->transport_lock);
> > + spin_unlock_bh(&xprt->transport_lock);
> >
> > /*
> > * Destroy sockets etc from the system workqueue so they can
> > —
>
> Agreed. When backporting to kernels that are older than 5.3.x, the transport lock needs to be taken using the bh-safe spin lock variants.
>
> Reviewed-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com <mailto:trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>>
>

Seems already applied, but for some reason I miss it. I will re-align
to stable again

Michael

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