Re: [syzbot] [xfs?] INFO: task hung in __fdget_pos (4)

Mateusz Guzik
2023-09-03T22:47:55Z

On 9/4/23, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2023 at 10:33:57AM +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 03, 2023 at 03:25:28PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> > On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 09:11:34PM -0700, syzbot wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > syzbot found the following issue on:
>> > >
>> > > HEAD commit: b97d64c72259 Merge tag
>> > > '6.6-rc-smb3-client-fixes-part1' of..
>> > > git tree: upstream
>> > > console output:
>> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=14136d8fa80000
>> > > kernel config:
>> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=958c1fdc38118172
>> > > dashboard link:
>> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e245f0516ee625aaa412
>> > > compiler: Debian clang version 15.0.6, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for
>> > > Debian) 2.40
>> > >
>> > > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
>> >
>> > Been happening for months, apparently, yet for some reason it now
>> > thinks a locking hang in __fdget_pos() is an XFS issue?
>> >
>> > #syz set subsystems: fs
>> >
>>
>> The report does not have info necessary to figure this out -- no
>> backtrace for whichever thread which holds f_pos_lock. I clicked on a
>> bunch of other reports and it is the same story.
>
> That's true, but there's nothing that points at XFS in *any* of the
> bug reports. Indeed, log from the most recent report doesn't have
> any of the output from the time stuff hung. i.e. the log starts
> at kernel time 669.487771 seconds, and the hung task report is at:
>

I did not mean to imply this is an xfs problem.

You wrote reports have been coming in for months so it is pretty clear
nobody is investigating. I figured I'm going to change that bit.

>> Can the kernel be configured to dump backtraces from *all* threads?
>
> It already is (sysrq-t), but I'm not sure that will help - if it is
> a leaked unlock then nothing will show up at all.
>

See the other part of the thread, I roped in someone from syzkaller
along with the question if they can use sysrq t.

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Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>