linux-toradex.git/mm/backing-dev.c, branch v5.5-rc7

bdi: Do not use freezable workqueue

2019-10-06T15:11:35+00:00

A removable block device, such as NVMe or SSD connected over Thunderbolt
can be hot-removed any time including when the system is suspended. When
device is hot-removed during suspend and the system gets resumed, kernel
first resumes devices and then thaws the userspace including freezable
workqueues. What happens in that case is that the NVMe driver notices
that the device is unplugged and removes it from the system. This ends
up calling bdi_unregister() for the gendisk which then schedules
wb_workfn() to be run one more time.

However, since the bdi_wq is still frozen flush_delayed_work() call in
wb_shutdown() blocks forever halting system resume process. User sees
this as hang as nothing is happening anymore.

Triggering sysrq-w reveals this:

  Workqueue: nvme-wq nvme_remove_dead_ctrl_work [nvme]
  Call Trace:
   ? __schedule+0x2c5/0x630
   ? wait_for_completion+0xa4/0x120
   schedule+0x3e/0xc0
   schedule_timeout+0x1c9/0x320
   ? resched_curr+0x1f/0xd0
   ? wait_for_completion+0xa4/0x120
   wait_for_completion+0xc3/0x120
   ? wake_up_q+0x60/0x60
   __flush_work+0x131/0x1e0
   ? flush_workqueue_prep_pwqs+0x130/0x130
   bdi_unregister+0xb9/0x130
   del_gendisk+0x2d2/0x2e0
   nvme_ns_remove+0xed/0x110 [nvme_core]
   nvme_remove_namespaces+0x96/0xd0 [nvme_core]
   nvme_remove+0x5b/0x160 [nvme]
   pci_device_remove+0x36/0x90
   device_release_driver_internal+0xdf/0x1c0
   nvme_remove_dead_ctrl_work+0x14/0x30 [nvme]
   process_one_work+0x1c2/0x3f0
   worker_thread+0x48/0x3e0
   kthread+0x100/0x140
   ? current_work+0x30/0x30
   ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
   ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

This is not limited to NVMes so exactly same issue can be reproduced by
hot-removing SSD (over Thunderbolt) while the system is suspended.

Prevent this from happening by removing WQ_FREEZABLE from bdi_wq.

Reported-by: AceLan Kao 
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138695698516487
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204385
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191002122136.GD2819@lahna.fi.intel.com/#t
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: Separate out wb_get_lookup() from wb_get_create()

2019-08-27T15:22:38+00:00

Separate out wb_get_lookup() which doesn't try to create one if there
isn't already one from wb_get_create().  This will be used by later
patches.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: Add bdi->id

2019-08-27T15:22:38+00:00

There currently is no way to universally identify and lookup a bdi
without holding a reference and pointer to it.  This patch adds an
non-recycling bdi->id and implements bdi_get_by_id() which looks up
bdis by their ids.  This will be used by memcg foreign inode flushing.

I left bdi_list alone for simplicity and because while rb_tree does
support rcu assignment it doesn't seem to guarantee lossless walk when
walk is racing aginst tree rebalance operations.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

backing-dev: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

2019-06-03T13:49:07+00:00

When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the
return value.  The function can work or not, but the code logic should
never do something different based on this.

And as the return value does not matter at all, no need to save the
dentry in struct backing_dev_info, so delete it.

Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Anders Roxell 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
   initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches

2019-01-22T21:39:38+00:00

sync_inodes_sb() can race against cgwb (cgroup writeback) membership
switches and fail to writeback some inodes.  For example, if an inode
switches to another wb while sync_inodes_sb() is in progress, the new
wb might not be visible to bdi_split_work_to_wbs() at all or the inode
might jump from a wb which hasn't issued writebacks yet to one which
already has.

This patch adds backing_dev_info->wb_switch_rwsem to synchronize cgwb
switch path against sync_inodes_sb() so that sync_inodes_sb() is
guaranteed to see all the target wbs and inodes can't jump wbs to
escape syncing.

v2: Fixed misplaced rwsem init.  Spotted by Jiufei.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reported-by: Jiufei Xue 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc694ae2-f07f-61e1-7097-7c8411cee12d@gmail.com
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blkcg: delay blkg destruction until after writeback has finished

2018-08-31T20:48:56+00:00

Currently, blkcg destruction relies on a sequence of events:
  1. Destruction starts. blkcg_css_offline() is called and blkgs
     release their reference to the blkcg. This immediately destroys
     the cgwbs (writeback).
  2. With blkgs giving up their reference, the blkcg ref count should
     become zero and eventually call blkcg_css_free() which finally
     frees the blkcg.

Jiufei Xue reported that there is a race between blkcg_bio_issue_check()
and cgroup_rmdir(). To remedy this, blkg destruction becomes contingent
on the completion of all writeback associated with the blkcg. A count of
the number of cgwbs is maintained and once that goes to zero, blkg
destruction can follow. This should prevent premature blkg destruction
related to writeback.

The new process for blkcg cleanup is as follows:
  1. Destruction starts. blkcg_css_offline() is called which offlines
     writeback. Blkg destruction is delayed on the cgwb_refcnt count to
     avoid punting potentially large amounts of outstanding writeback
     to root while maintaining any ongoing policies. Here, the base
     cgwb_refcnt is put back.
  2. When the cgwb_refcnt becomes zero, blkcg_destroy_blkgs() is called
     and handles destruction of blkgs. This is where the css reference
     held by each blkg is released.
  3. Once the blkcg ref count goes to zero, blkcg_css_free() is called.
     This finally frees the blkg.

It seems in the past blk-throttle didn't do the most understandable
things with taking data from a blkg while associating with current. So,
the simplification and unification of what blk-throttle is doing caused
this.

Fixes: 08e18eab0c579 ("block: add bi_blkg to the bio for cgroups")
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik 
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou 
Cc: Jiufei Xue 
Cc: Joseph Qi 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Josef Bacik 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: use irqsave variant of refcount_dec_and_lock()

2018-08-22T17:52:46+00:00

The irqsave variant of refcount_dec_and_lock handles irqsave/restore when
taking/releasing the spin lock.  With this variant the call of
local_irq_save/restore is no longer required.

[bigeasy@linutronix.de: s@atomic_dec_and_lock@refcount_dec_and_lock@g]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703200141.28415-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bdi: use refcount_t for reference counting instead atomic_t

2018-08-22T17:52:46+00:00

refcount_t type and corresponding API should be used instead of atomic_t
when the variable is used as a reference counter.  This permits avoiding
accidental refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703200141.28415-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bdi: Fix another oops in wb_workfn()

2018-06-22T18:08:07+00:00

syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at wb_workfn() [1] due to
wb->bdi->dev being NULL. And Dmitry confirmed that wb->state was
WB_shutting_down after wb->bdi->dev became NULL. This indicates that
unregister_bdi() failed to call wb_shutdown() on one of wb objects.

The problem is in cgwb_bdi_unregister() which does cgwb_kill() and thus
drops bdi's reference to wb structures before going through the list of
wbs again and calling wb_shutdown() on each of them. This way the loop
iterating through all wbs can easily miss a wb if that wb has already
passed through cgwb_remove_from_bdi_list() called from wb_shutdown()
from cgwb_release_workfn() and as a result fully shutdown bdi although
wb_workfn() for this wb structure is still running. In fact there are
also other ways cgwb_bdi_unregister() can race with
cgwb_release_workfn() leading e.g. to use-after-free issues:

CPU1                            CPU2
                                cgwb_bdi_unregister()
                                  cgwb_kill(*slot);

cgwb_release()
  queue_work(cgwb_release_wq, &wb->release_work);
cgwb_release_workfn()
                                  wb = list_first_entry(&bdi->wb_list, ...)
                                  spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock);
  wb_shutdown(wb);
  ...
  kfree_rcu(wb, rcu);
                                  wb_shutdown(wb); -> oops use-after-free

We solve these issues by synchronizing writeback structure shutdown from
cgwb_bdi_unregister() with cgwb_release_workfn() using a new mutex. That
way we also no longer need synchronization using WB_shutting_down as the
mutex provides it for CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK case and without
CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK wb_shutdown() can be called only once from
bdi_unregister().

Reported-by: syzbot 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe