Re: [PATCH 02/12] locking/rwsem: Exit early when held by an anonymous owner

From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] locking/rwsem: Exit early when held by an anonymous owner
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:55:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8fae9cfa-93b0-4d54-6d16-35e920e25b6c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200114182514.GA9949@lst.de>

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On 1/14/20 1:25 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 01:17:45PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>> The owner field is just a pointer to the task structure with the lower 3
>> bits served as flag bits. Setting owner to RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN (-2) will
>> stop optimistic spinning. So under what condition did the crash happen?
> When running xfstests with all patches in this series except for this
> one, IIRC in generic/114.

Could you try the attached patch to see if it can fix the problem?

Thanks,
Longman


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From 1fcfa946609b5e919a6b953a64be6853af5cdf05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:39:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] locking/rwsem: Fix kernel crash when spinning on
 RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN

The commit 91d2a812dfb9 ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer
optimistically spin on owner") will allow a recently woken up waiting
writer to spin on the owner. Unfortunately, if the owner happens to be
RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN, the code will incorrectly spin on it leading to a
kernel crash. This is fixed by passing the proper non-spinnable bits
to rwsem_spin_on_owner() so that RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN will be treated
as a non-spinnable target.

Fixes: 91d2a812dfb9 ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner")

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/locking/rwsem.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
index 44e68761f432..1dd3d53f43c3 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
@@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ rwsem_down_write_slowpath(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int state)
 		 * without sleeping.
 		 */
 		if ((wstate == WRITER_HANDOFF) &&
-		    (rwsem_spin_on_owner(sem, 0) == OWNER_NULL))
+		    rwsem_spin_on_owner(sem, RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE) == OWNER_NULL)
 			goto trylock_again;
 
 		/* Block until there are no active lockers. */
-- 
2.18.1

