[PATCH 3.16 107/370] btrfs: limit async_work allocation and worker func duration

Ben Hutchings
2017-03-10T14:03:20Z

From: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@virtuozzo.com>

commit 2939e1a86f758b55cdba73e29397dd3d94df13bc upstream.

Problem statement: unprivileged user who has read-write access to more than
one btrfs subvolume may easily consume all kernel memory (eventually
triggering oom-killer).

Reproducer (./mkrmdir below essentially loops over mkdir/rmdir):

[root@kteam1 ~]# cat prep.sh

DEV=/dev/sdb
mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV
mount $DEV /mnt
for i in `seq 1 16`
do
mkdir /mnt/$i
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/SV_$i
ID=`btrfs subvolume list /mnt |grep "SV_$i$" |cut -d ' ' -f 2`
mount -t btrfs -o subvolid=$ID $DEV /mnt/$i
chmod a+rwx /mnt/$i
done

[root@kteam1 ~]# sh prep.sh

[maxim@kteam1 ~]$ for i in `seq 1 16`; do ./mkrmdir /mnt/$i 2000 2000 & done

[root@kteam1 ~]# for i in `seq 1 4`; do grep "kmalloc-128" /proc/slabinfo | grep -v dma; sleep 60; done
kmalloc-128 10144 10144 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 317 317 0
kmalloc-128 9992352 9992352 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 312261 312261 0
kmalloc-128 24226752 24226752 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 757086 757086 0
kmalloc-128 42754240 42754240 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 1336070 1336070 0

The huge numbers above come from insane number of async_work-s allocated
and queued by btrfs_wq_run_delayed_node.

The problem is caused by btrfs_wq_run_delayed_node() queuing more and more
works if the number of delayed items is above BTRFS_DELAYED_BACKGROUND. The
worker func (btrfs_async_run_delayed_root) processes at least
BTRFS_DELAYED_BATCH items (if they are present in the list). So, the machinery
works as expected while the list is almost empty. As soon as it is getting
bigger, worker func starts to process more than one item at a time, it takes
longer, and the chances to have async_works queued more than needed is getting
higher.

The problem above is worsened by another flaw of delayed-inode implementation:
if async_work was queued in a throttling branch (number of items >=
BTRFS_DELAYED_WRITEBACK), corresponding worker func won't quit until
the number of items < BTRFS_DELAYED_BACKGROUND / 2. So, it is possible that
the func occupies CPU infinitely (up to 30sec in my experiments): while the
func is trying to drain the list, the user activity may add more and more
items to the list.

The patch fixes both problems in straightforward way: refuse queuing too
many works in btrfs_wq_run_delayed_node and bail out of worker func if
at least BTRFS_DELAYED_WRITEBACK items are processed.

Changed in v2: remove support of thresh == NO_THRESHOLD.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
fs/btrfs/async-thread.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
fs/btrfs/async-thread.h | 1 +
fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c | 6 ++++--
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
@@ -64,6 +64,20 @@ void btrfs_##name(struct work_struct *ar
normal_work_helper(work); \
}

+bool btrfs_workqueue_normal_congested(struct btrfs_workqueue *wq)
+{
+ /*
+ * We could compare wq->normal->pending with num_online_cpus()
+ * to support "thresh == NO_THRESHOLD" case, but it requires
+ * moving up atomic_inc/dec in thresh_queue/exec_hook. Let's
+ * postpone it until someone needs the support of that case.
+ */
+ if (wq->normal->thresh == NO_THRESHOLD)
+ return false;
+
+ return atomic_read(&wq->normal->pending) > wq->normal->thresh * 2;
+}
+
BTRFS_WORK_HELPER(worker_helper);
BTRFS_WORK_HELPER(delalloc_helper);
BTRFS_WORK_HELPER(flush_delalloc_helper);
--- a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
@@ -77,4 +77,5 @@ void btrfs_queue_work(struct btrfs_workq
void btrfs_destroy_workqueue(struct btrfs_workqueue *wq);
void btrfs_workqueue_set_max(struct btrfs_workqueue *wq, int max);
void btrfs_set_work_high_priority(struct btrfs_work *work);
+bool btrfs_workqueue_normal_congested(struct btrfs_workqueue *wq);
#endif
--- a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
@@ -1371,7 +1371,8 @@ release_path:
total_done++;

btrfs_release_prepared_delayed_node(delayed_node);
- if (async_work->nr == 0 || total_done < async_work->nr)
+ if ((async_work->nr == 0 && total_done < BTRFS_DELAYED_WRITEBACK) ||
+ total_done < async_work->nr)
goto again;

free_path:
@@ -1387,7 +1388,8 @@ static int btrfs_wq_run_delayed_node(str
{
struct btrfs_async_delayed_work *async_work;

- if (atomic_read(&delayed_root->items) < BTRFS_DELAYED_BACKGROUND)
+ if (atomic_read(&delayed_root->items) < BTRFS_DELAYED_BACKGROUND ||
+ btrfs_workqueue_normal_congested(fs_info->delayed_workers))
return 0;

async_work = kmalloc(sizeof(*async_work), GFP_NOFS);