From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@aol.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>, "tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [5.4-rc1, regression] wb_workfn wakeup oops (was Re: frequent 5.4-rc1 crash?)
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 08:05:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32f7c7d8-59d8-7657-4dcc-3741355bf63a@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41B90CA7-E093-48FA-BDFD-73BE7EB81FB6@fb.com>
On 10/3/19 8:01 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
>
>
> On 3 Oct 2019, at 4:41, Gao Xiang wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 04:40:22PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> [cc linux-fsdevel, linux-block, tejun ]
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 06:52:47PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone /else/ see this crash in generic/299 on a V4 filesystem
>>>> (tho
>>>> afaict V5 configs crash too) and a 5.4-rc1 kernel? It seems to pop
>>>> up
>>>> on generic/299 though only 80% of the time.
>>>>
>>
>> Just a quick glance, I guess there could is a race between (complete
>> guess):
>>
>>
>> 160 static void finish_writeback_work(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
>> 161 struct wb_writeback_work *work)
>> 162 {
>> 163 struct wb_completion *done = work->done;
>> 164
>> 165 if (work->auto_free)
>> 166 kfree(work);
>> 167 if (done && atomic_dec_and_test(&done->cnt))
>>
>> ^^^ here
>>
>> 168 wake_up_all(done->waitq);
>> 169 }
>>
>> since new wake_up_all(done->waitq); is completely on-stack,
>> if (done && atomic_dec_and_test(&done->cnt))
>> - wake_up_all(&wb->bdi->wb_waitq);
>> + wake_up_all(done->waitq);
>> }
>>
>> which could cause use after free if on-stack wb_completion is gone...
>> (however previous wb->bdi is solid since it is not on-stack)
>>
>> see generic on-stack completion which takes a wait_queue spin_lock
>> between
>> test and wake_up...
>>
>> If I am wrong, ignore me, hmm...
>
> It's a good guess ;) Jens should have this queued up already:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/23/972
Yes indeed, it'll go out today or tomorrow for -rc2.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-03 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20191003015247.GI13108@magnolia>
2019-10-03 6:40 ` [5.4-rc1, regression] wb_workfn wakeup oops (was Re: frequent 5.4-rc1 crash?) Dave Chinner
2019-10-03 8:41 ` Gao Xiang
2019-10-03 14:01 ` Chris Mason
2019-10-03 14:05 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-10-03 18:37 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-06 22:30 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-08 3:20 ` Jens Axboe
2019-10-03 14:40 ` Gao Xiang
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