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Kiran Kumar Modukuri committed 5ce83d4bb7d
cachefiles: Fix missing clear of the CACHEFILES_OBJECT_ACTIVE flag In cachefiles_mark_object_active(), the new object is marked active and then we try to add it to the active object tree. If a conflicting object is already present, we want to wait for that to go away. After the wait, we go round again and try to re-mark the object as being active - but it's already marked active from the first time we went through and a BUG is issued. Fix this by clearing the CACHEFILES_OBJECT_ACTIVE flag before we try again. Analysis from Kiran Kumar Modukuri: [Impact] Oops during heavy NFS + FSCache + Cachefiles CacheFiles: Error: Overlong wait for old active object to go away. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000002 CacheFiles: Error: Object already active kernel BUG at fs/cachefiles/namei.c:163! [Cause] In a heavily loaded system with big files being read and truncated, an fscache object for a cookie is being dropped and a new object being looked. The new object being looked for has to wait for the old object to go away before the new object is moved to active state. [Fix] Clear the flag 'CACHEFILES_OBJECT_ACTIVE' for the new object when retrying the object lookup. [Testcase] Have run ~100 hours of NFS stress tests and have not seen this bug recur. [Regression Potential] - Limited to fscache/cachefiles. Fixes: 9ae326a69004 ("CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem") Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar Modukuri <kiran.modukuri@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>