syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at wb_workfn() [1] due to
wb->bdi->dev being NULL. And Dmitry confirmed that wb->state was
WB_shutting_down after wb->bdi->dev became NULL. This indicates that
unregister_bdi() failed to call wb_shutdown() on one of wb objects.
The problem is in cgwb_bdi_unregister() which does cgwb_kill() and thus
drops bdi's reference to wb structures before going through the list of
wbs again and calling wb_shutdown() on each of them. This way the loop
iterating through all wbs can easily miss a wb if that wb has already
passed through cgwb_remove_from_bdi_list() called from wb_shutdown()
from cgwb_release_workfn() and as a result fully shutdown bdi although
wb_workfn() for this wb structure is still running. In fact there are
also other ways cgwb_bdi_unregister() can race with
cgwb_release_workfn() leading e.g. to use-after-free issues:
CPU1 CPU2
cgwb_bdi_unregister()
cgwb_kill(*slot);
cgwb_release()
queue_work(cgwb_release_wq, &wb->release_work);
cgwb_release_workfn()
wb = list_first_entry(&bdi->wb_list, ...)
spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock);
wb_shutdown(wb);
...
kfree_rcu(wb, rcu);
wb_shutdown(wb); -> oops use-after-free
We solve these issues by synchronizing writeback structure shutdown from
cgwb_bdi_unregister() with cgwb_release_workfn() using a new mutex. That
way we also no longer need synchronization using WB_shutting_down as the
mutex provides it for CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK case and without
CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK wb_shutdown() can be called only once from
bdi_unregister().
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+4a7438e774b21ddd8eca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
From 0aa2e9b921d6db71150633ff290199554f0842a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 10:29:00 -0700
cgwb_release() punts the actual release to cgwb_release_workfn() on
system_wq. Depending on the number of cgroups or block devices, there
can be a lot of cgwb_release_workfn() in flight at the same time.
We're periodically seeing close to 256 kworkers getting stuck with the
following stack trace and overtime the entire system gets stuck.
[<ffffffff810ee40c>] _synchronize_rcu_expedited.constprop.72+0x2fc/0x330
[<ffffffff810ee634>] synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x24/0x30
[<ffffffff811ccf23>] bdi_unregister+0x53/0x290
[<ffffffff811cd1e9>] release_bdi+0x89/0xc0
[<ffffffff811cd645>] wb_exit+0x85/0xa0
[<ffffffff811cdc84>] cgwb_release_workfn+0x54/0xb0
[<ffffffff810a68d0>] process_one_work+0x150/0x410
[<ffffffff810a71fd>] worker_thread+0x6d/0x520
[<ffffffff810ad3dc>] kthread+0x12c/0x160
[<ffffffff81969019>] ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
The events leading to the lockup are...
1. A lot of cgwb_release_workfn() is queued at the same time and all
system_wq kworkers are assigned to execute them.
2. They all end up calling synchronize_rcu_expedited(). One of them
wins and tries to perform the expedited synchronization.
3. However, that invovles queueing rcu_exp_work to system_wq and
waiting for it. Because #1 is holding all available kworkers on
system_wq, rcu_exp_work can't be executed. cgwb_release_workfn()
is waiting for synchronize_rcu_expedited() which in turn is waiting
for cgwb_release_workfn() to free up some of the kworkers.
We shouldn't be scheduling hundreds of cgwb_release_workfn() at the
same time. There's nothing to be gained from that. This patch
updates cgwb release path to use a dedicated percpu workqueue with
@max_active of 1.
While this resolves the problem at hand, it might be a good idea to
isolate rcu_exp_work to its own workqueue too as it can be used from
various paths and is prone to this sort of indirect A-A deadlocks.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
syzbot is reporting use after free bug in debugfs_remove() [1].
This is because fault injection made memory allocation for
debugfs_create_file() from bdi_debug_register() from bdi_register_va()
fail and continued with setting WB_registered. But when debugfs_remove()
is called from debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_dir) from bdi_debug_unregister()
from bdi_unregister() from release_bdi() because WB_registered was set
by bdi_register_va(), IS_ERR_OR_NULL(bdi->debug_dir) == false despite
debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_dir) was already called from bdi_register_va().
Fix this by making IS_ERR_OR_NULL(bdi->debug_dir) == true.
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=5ab4efd91a96dcea9b68104f159adf4af2a6dfc1
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+049cb4ae097049dac137@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Fixes: 97f0769793 ("bdi: convert bdi_debug_register to int")
Cc: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
memcg reclaim may alter pgdat->flags based on the state of LRU lists in
cgroup and its children. PGDAT_WRITEBACK may force kswapd to sleep
congested_wait(), PGDAT_DIRTY may force kswapd to writeback filesystem
pages. But the worst here is PGDAT_CONGESTED, since it may force all
direct reclaims to stall in wait_iff_congested(). Note that only kswapd
have powers to clear any of these bits. This might just never happen if
cgroup limits configured that way. So all direct reclaims will stall as
long as we have some congested bdi in the system.
Leave all pgdat->flags manipulations to kswapd. kswapd scans the whole
pgdat, only kswapd can clear pgdat->flags once node is balanced, thus
it's reasonable to leave all decisions about node state to kswapd.
Why only kswapd? Why not allow to global direct reclaim change these
flags? It is because currently only kswapd can clear these flags. I'm
less worried about the case when PGDAT_CONGESTED falsely not set, and
more worried about the case when it falsely set. If direct reclaimer
sets PGDAT_CONGESTED, do we have guarantee that after the congestion
problem is sorted out, kswapd will be woken up and clear the flag? It
seems like there is no such guarantee. E.g. direct reclaimers may
eventually balance pgdat and kswapd simply won't wake up (see
wakeup_kswapd()).
Moving pgdat->flags manipulation to kswapd, means that cgroup2 recalim
now loses its congestion throttling mechanism. Add per-cgroup
congestion state and throttle cgroup2 reclaimers if memcg is in
congestion state.
Currently there is no need in per-cgroup PGDAT_WRITEBACK and PGDAT_DIRTY
bits since they alter only kswapd behavior.
The problem could be easily demonstrated by creating heavy congestion in
one cgroup:
echo "+memory" > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control
mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/congester
echo 512M > /sys/fs/cgroup/congester/memory.max
echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/congester/cgroup.procs
/* generate a lot of diry data on slow HDD */
while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdb/zeroes bs=1M count=1024; done &
....
while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdb/zeroes bs=1M count=1024; done &
and some job in another cgroup:
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/victim
echo 128M > /sys/fs/cgroup/victim/memory.max
# time cat /dev/sda > /dev/null
real 10m15.054s
user 0m0.487s
sys 1m8.505s
According to the tracepoint in wait_iff_congested(), the 'cat' spent 50%
of the time sleeping there.
With the patch, cat don't waste time anymore:
# time cat /dev/sda > /dev/null
real 5m32.911s
user 0m0.411s
sys 0m56.664s
[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: congestion state should be per-node]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406135215.10057-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
[ayabinin@virtuozzo.com: make congestion state per-cgroup-per-node instead of just per-cgroup[
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406180254.8970-2-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180323152029.11084-5-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few misc things
- ocfs2 updates
- the v9fs maintainers have been missing for a long time. I've taken
over v9fs patch slinging.
- most of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (116 commits)
mm,oom_reaper: check for MMF_OOM_SKIP before complaining
mm/ksm: fix interaction with THP
mm/memblock.c: cast constant ULLONG_MAX to phys_addr_t
headers: untangle kmemleak.h from mm.h
include/linux/mmdebug.h: make VM_WARN* non-rvals
mm/page_isolation.c: make start_isolate_page_range() fail if already isolated
mm: change return type to vm_fault_t
mm, oom: remove 3% bonus for CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes
mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory
kernel/fork.c: detect early free of a live mm
mm: make counting of list_lru_one::nr_items lockless
mm/swap_state.c: make bool enable_vma_readahead and swap_vma_readahead() static
block_invalidatepage(): only release page if the full page was invalidated
mm: kernel-doc: add missing parameter descriptions
mm/swap.c: remove @cold parameter description for release_pages()
mm/nommu: remove description of alloc_vm_area
zram: drop max_zpage_size and use zs_huge_class_size()
zsmalloc: introduce zs_huge_class_size()
mm: fix races between swapoff and flush dcache
fs/direct-io.c: minor cleanups in do_blockdev_direct_IO
...
This reverts commit a0747a859e.
It breaks some booting for some users, and more than a week
into this, there's still no good fix. Revert this commit
for now until a solution has been found.
Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In order to make error handle more cleaner we call bdi_debug_register
before set state to WB_registered, that we can avoid call bdi_unregister
in release_bdi().
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
After commit b35bd0d9f8, pdflush_proc_obsolete() is no longer
used. Kill the function and declaration.
Reported-by: Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@tuxera.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If the 'kmalloc' fails, we must go through the existing error handling
path.
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Fixes: 52ebea749a ("writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Drop 'parent' argument of bdi_register() and bdi_register_va(). It is
always NULL.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Now that all backing_dev_info structure are allocated separately, we can
drop some unused functions.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
MTD will want to call bdi_alloc_node() and bdi_put() directly. Export
these functions.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Most users will want to unregister bdi when dropping last reference to a
bdi. Only a few users (like block devices) want to play more complex
tricks with bdi registration and unregistration. So unregister bdi when
the last reference to bdi is dropped and just make sure we don't
unregister the bdi the second time if it is already unregistered.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add function that registers bdi and takes va_list instead of variable
number of arguments.
Add bdi_alloc() as simple wrapper for NUMA-unaware users allocating BDI.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Rename cgwb_bdi_destroy() to cgwb_bdi_unregister() as it gets called
from bdi_unregister() which is not necessarily called from bdi_destroy()
and thus the name is somewhat misleading.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently we wait for all cgwbs to get released in cgwb_bdi_destroy()
(called from bdi_unregister()). That is however unnecessary now when
cgwb->bdi is a proper refcounted reference (thus bdi cannot get
released before all cgwbs are released) and when cgwb_bdi_destroy()
shuts down writeback directly.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently we waited for all cgwbs to get freed in cgwb_bdi_destroy()
which also means that writeback has been shutdown on them. Since this
wait is going away, directly shutdown writeback on cgwbs from
cgwb_bdi_destroy() to avoid live writeback structures after
bdi_unregister() has finished. To make that safe with concurrent
shutdown from cgwb_release_workfn(), we also have to make sure
wb_shutdown() returns only after the bdi_writeback structure is really
shutdown.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently root wb_writeback structure is added to bdi->wb_list in
bdi_init() and never removed. That is different from all other
wb_writeback structures which get added to the list when created and
removed from it before wb_shutdown().
So move list addition of root bdi_writeback to bdi_register() and list
removal of all wb_writeback structures to wb_shutdown(). That way a
wb_writeback structure is on bdi->wb_list if and only if it can handle
writeback and it will make it easier for us to handle shutdown of all
wb_writeback structures in bdi_unregister().
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
