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Yan, Zheng committed 3e1d0452edc
ceph: avoid iput_final() while holding mutex or in dispatch thread
iput_final() may wait for reahahead pages. The wait can cause deadlock.
For example:
Workqueue: ceph-msgr ceph_con_workfn [libceph]
Call Trace:
schedule+0x36/0x80
io_schedule+0x16/0x40
__lock_page+0x101/0x140
truncate_inode_pages_range+0x556/0x9f0
truncate_inode_pages_final+0x4d/0x60
evict+0x182/0x1a0
iput+0x1d2/0x220
iterate_session_caps+0x82/0x230 [ceph]
dispatch+0x678/0xa80 [ceph]
ceph_con_workfn+0x95b/0x1560 [libceph]
process_one_work+0x14d/0x410
worker_thread+0x4b/0x460
kthread+0x105/0x140
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40
Workqueue: ceph-msgr ceph_con_workfn [libceph]
Call Trace:
__schedule+0x3d6/0x8b0
schedule+0x36/0x80
schedule_preempt_disabled+0xe/0x10
mutex_lock+0x2f/0x40
ceph_check_caps+0x505/0xa80 [ceph]
ceph_put_wrbuffer_cap_refs+0x1e5/0x2c0 [ceph]
writepages_finish+0x2d3/0x410 [ceph]
__complete_request+0x26/0x60 [libceph]
handle_reply+0x6c8/0xa10 [libceph]
dispatch+0x29a/0xbb0 [libceph]
ceph_con_workfn+0x95b/0x1560 [libceph]
process_one_work+0x14d/0x410
worker_thread+0x4b/0x460
kthread+0x105/0x140
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40
In above example, truncate_inode_pages_range() waits for readahead pages
while holding s_mutex. ceph_check_caps() waits for s_mutex and blocks
OSD dispatch thread. Later OSD replies (for readahead) can't be handled.
ceph_check_caps() also may lock snap_rwsem for read. So similar deadlock
can happen if iput_final() is called while holding snap_rwsem.
In general, it's not good to call iput_final() inside MDS/OSD dispatch
threads or while holding any mutex.
The fix is introducing ceph_async_iput(), which calls iput_final() in
workqueue.
Signed-off-by: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>