Re: kernel BUG when mounting large block xfs backed by 9p (folio ref count bug)

Chris Arges
2025-12-08T17:21:24Z

On 2025-12-07 22:49:31, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I'm not sure why but I can't reproduce with your .config either :/
> If you can still reproduce this reliably, could you try with the
> following diff applied (which is basically the same as what Christian
> suggested a couple of days ago with also ubuf, whatever that is)
> ------------
> diff --git a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c b/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
> index 10c2dd486438..f7ee1f864b03 100644
> --- a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
> +++ b/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
> @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static int p9_get_mapped_pages(struct virtio_chan *chan,
> if (!iov_iter_count(data))
> return 0;
>
> - if (!iov_iter_is_kvec(data)) {
> + if (user_backed_iter(data)) {
> int n;
> /*
> * We allow only p9_max_pages pinned. We wait for the
> -----------
>

Dominique,
I can still reproduce this easily. If I apply this patch, I no longer get
the crash. If this patch ends up being applied feel free to add:
Tested-By: Chris Arges <carges@cloudflare.com>

Happy to test other iterations as well.
--chris

>
>
> Willy,
>
> Matthew Wilcox wrote on Sun, Dec 07, 2025 at 07:18:02AM +0000:
> > In readahead, we allocate a folio, lock it and add it to the page cache.
> > We then submit it to the filesystem for read. It cannot be truncated
> > from the page cache until the filesystem unlocks it (generally by calling
> > folio_end_read() but some filesystems explicitly call folio_unlock()
> > instead). So you don't need to take an extra reference to it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> My main problem with this all is that trans_virtio adds the buffers to
> the virtio virtqueue but does nothing to take it off if
> wait_event_killable() in virtio_request() gets killed, but looking at it
> even in the code path that gets a ref the code will happily drop the ref
> even before the flush is over so I guess there's no reason to actively
> try to pin kernel pages...
>
> I'd sleep better if there was a way to remove (detach?) the buffer from
> the virtqueue but I can't see how to do that without breaking something
> else, so I guess we'll have to live with that behavior unless someone
> knows better.
>
> --
> Dominique Martinet | Asmadeus