Re: srcu hung task panic

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 08:33:25PM +0000, Krein, Dennis wrote:
> Yes it's fine with me to sign off on this.  I have done extensive
> additional testing with the patch in my repro setup and have run well
> over 100 hours with no problem.  The repro setup with rcutorture and the
> inotify app typically reproduced a crash in 4 hours and always withing 12.
> We also did a lot of testing (several rigs all over 72 hours)  in our
> actual test rigs where running our fail over test along with rcutorture
> running and that always produced a crash in about 2 hours.

Thank you very much, Dennis, both for the fix and the testing!!!

For the 100 hours at 4 hours MTBF, there is a 99.3% probability of having
reduced the error rate by a factor of at least 5.  Assuming "several"
is at least three, the 72-hour runs at 2 hours MTBF shows a 99.5%
chance of having reduced the error rate by at least a factor of 20.
(Assuming random memoryless error distribution, etc., etc.)  So this
one does look like a winner.  ;-)

Is there anyone other than yourself who should get Tested-by credit
for this patch?  For that matter, is there someone who should get
Reported-by credit?

							Thanx, Paul

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> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 07:48:35AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 04:00:53AM +0000, Krein, Dennis wrote:
> > > I have a patch attached that fixes the problem for us.  I also tried a
> > > version with an smb_mb() call added at end of rcu_segcblist_enqueue()
> > > - but that turned out not to be needed.  I think the key part of
> > > this is locking srcu_data in srcu_gp_start().  I also put in the
> > > preempt_disable/enable in __call_srcu() so that it couldn't get scheduled
> > > out and possibly moved to another CPU.  I had one hung task panic where
> > > the callback that would complete the wait was properly set up but for some
> > > reason the delayed work never happened.  Only thing I could determine to
> > > cause that was if __call_srcu() got switched out after dropping spin lock.
> >
> > Good show!!!
> >
> > You are quite right, the srcu_data structure's ->lock
> > must be held across the calls to rcu_segcblist_advance() and
> > rcu_segcblist_accelerate().  Color me blind, given that I repeatedly
> > looked at the "lockdep_assert_held(&ACCESS_PRIVATE(sp, lock));" and
> > repeatedly misread it as "lockdep_assert_held(&ACCESS_PRIVATE(sdp,
> > lock));".
> >
> > A few questions and comments:
> >
> > o     Are you OK with my adding your Signed-off-by as shown in the
> >       updated patch below?
> 
> Hmmm...  I either need your Signed-off-by or to have someone cleanroom
> recreate the patch before I can send it upstream.  I would much prefer
> to use your Signed-off-by so that you get due credit, but one way or
> another I do need to fix this bug.
> 
>                                                         Thanx, Paul
> 
> > o     I removed the #ifdefs because this is needed everywhere.
> >       However, I do agree that it can be quite helpful to use these
> >       while experimenting with different potential solutions.
> >
> > o     Preemption is already disabled across all of srcu_gp_start()
> >       because the sp->lock is an interrupt-disabling lock.  This means
> >       that disabling preemption would have no effect.  I therefore
> >       removed the preempt_disable() and preempt_enable().
> >
> > o     What sequence of events would lead to the work item never being
> >       executed?  Last I knew, workqueues were supposed to be robust
> >       against preemption.
> >
> > I have added Christoph and Bart on CC (along with their Reported-by tags)
> > because they were recently seeing an intermittent failure that might
> > have been caused gby tyhis same bug.  Could you please check to see if
> > the below patch fixes your problem, give or take the workqueue issue?
> >
> >                                                       Thanx, Paul
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > commit 1c1d315dfb7049d0233b89948a3fbcb61ea15d26
> > Author: Dennis Krein <Dennis.Krein@netapp.com>
> > Date:   Fri Oct 26 07:38:24 2018 -0700
> >
> >     srcu: Lock srcu_data structure in srcu_gp_start()
> >
> >     The srcu_gp_start() function is called with the srcu_struct structure's
> >     ->lock held, but not with the srcu_data structure's ->lock.  This is
> >     problematic because this function accesses and updates the srcu_data
> >     structure's ->srcu_cblist, which is protected by that lock.  Failing to
> >     hold this lock can result in corruption of the SRCU callback lists,
> >     which in turn can result in arbitrarily bad results.
> >
> >     This commit therefore makes srcu_gp_start() acquire the srcu_data
> >     structure's ->lock across the calls to rcu_segcblist_advance() and
> >     rcu_segcblist_accelerate(), thus preventing this corruption.
> >
> >     Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> >     Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> >     Signed-off-by: Dennis Krein <Dennis.Krein@netapp.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
> > index 60f3236beaf7..697a2d7e8e8a 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
> > @@ -451,10 +451,12 @@ static void srcu_gp_start(struct srcu_struct *sp)
> >
> >       lockdep_assert_held(&ACCESS_PRIVATE(sp, lock));
> >       WARN_ON_ONCE(ULONG_CMP_GE(sp->srcu_gp_seq, sp->srcu_gp_seq_needed));
> > +     spin_lock_rcu_node(sdp);  /* Interrupts already disabled. */
> >       rcu_segcblist_advance(&sdp->srcu_cblist,
> >                             rcu_seq_current(&sp->srcu_gp_seq));
> >       (void)rcu_segcblist_accelerate(&sdp->srcu_cblist,
> >                                      rcu_seq_snap(&sp->srcu_gp_seq));
> > +     spin_unlock_rcu_node(sdp);  /* Interrupts remain disabled. */
> >       smp_mb(); /* Order prior store to ->srcu_gp_seq_needed vs. GP start. */
> >       rcu_seq_start(&sp->srcu_gp_seq);
> >       state = rcu_seq_state(READ_ONCE(sp->srcu_gp_seq));
>