[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: initialize ip_next_orphan

[Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>]

On 2020/10/30 05:04, Wengang Wang wrote:
> Though problem if found on a lower 4.1.12 kernel, I think upstream
> has same issue.
> 
> In one node in the cluster, there is the following callback trace:
> 
> # cat /proc/21473/stack
> [<ffffffffc09a2f06>] __ocfs2_cluster_lock.isra.36+0x336/0x9e0 [ocfs2]
> [<ffffffffc09a4481>] ocfs2_inode_lock_full_nested+0x121/0x520 [ocfs2]
> [<ffffffffc09b2ce2>] ocfs2_evict_inode+0x152/0x820 [ocfs2]
> [<ffffffff8122b36e>] evict+0xae/0x1a0
> [<ffffffff8122bd26>] iput+0x1c6/0x230
> [<ffffffffc09b60ed>] ocfs2_orphan_filldir+0x5d/0x100 [ocfs2]
> [<ffffffffc0992ae0>] ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk+0x490/0x4f0 [ocfs2]
> [<ffffffffc099a1e9>] ocfs2_dir_foreach+0x29/0x30 [ocfs2]
> [<ffffffffc09b7716>] ocfs2_recover_orphans+0x1b6/0x9a0 [ocfs2]
> [<ffffffffc09b9b4e>] ocfs2_complete_recovery+0x1de/0x5c0 [ocfs2]
> [<ffffffff810a1399>] process_one_work+0x169/0x4a0
> [<ffffffff810a1bcb>] worker_thread+0x5b/0x560
> [<ffffffff810a7a2b>] kthread+0xcb/0xf0
> [<ffffffff816f5d21>] ret_from_fork+0x61/0x90
> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> 
> The above stack is not reasonable, the final iput shouldn't happen in
> ocfs2_orphan_filldir() function. Looking at the code,
> 
> 2067         /* Skip inodes which are already added to recover list, since dio may
> 2068          * happen concurrently with unlink/rename */
> 2069         if (OCFS2_I(iter)->ip_next_orphan) {
> 2070                 iput(iter);
> 2071                 return 0;
> 2072         }
> 2073
> 
> The logic thinks the inode is already in recover list on seeing
> ip_next_orphan is non-NULL, so it skip this inode after dropping a
> reference which incremented in ocfs2_iget().
> 
> While, if the inode is already in recover list, it should have another
> reference and the iput() at line 2070 should not be the final iput
> (dropping the last reference). So I don't think the inode is really
> in the recover list (no vmcore to confirm).
> 
> Note that ocfs2_queue_orphans(), though not shown up in the call back trace,
> is holding cluster lock on the orphan directory when looking up for unlinked
> inodes. The on disk inode eviction could involve a lot of IOs which may need
> long time to finish. That means this node could hold the cluster lock for
> very long time, that can lead to the lock requests (from other nodes) to the
> orhpan directory hang for long time.
> 
> Looking at more on ip_next_orphan, I found it's not initialized when
> allocating a new ocfs2_inode_info structure.

I don't see the internal relations.
And AFAIK, ip_next_orphan will be initialized during ocfs2_queue_orphans().

Thanks,
Joseph

> 
> Fix:
> 	initialize ip_next_orphan as NULL.
> Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com>
> ---
>  fs/ocfs2/super.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> index 1d91dd1e8711..6f0e07584a15 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> @@ -1724,6 +1724,8 @@ static void ocfs2_inode_init_once(void *data)
>  				  &ocfs2_inode_caching_ops);
>  
>  	inode_init_once(&oi->vfs_inode);
> +
> +	oi->ip_next_orphan = NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static int ocfs2_initialize_mem_caches(void)
>