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<title>Don't jump to compute_result state from check_result state</title>
<updated>2019-05-16T07:17:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nigel Croxon</name>
<email>ncroxon@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-29T17:46:15+00:00</published>
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commit 4f4fd7c5798bbdd5a03a60f6269cf1177fbd11ef upstream.

Changing state from check_state_check_result to
check_state_compute_result not only is unsafe but also doesn't
appear to serve a valid purpose.  A raid6 check should only be
pushing out extra writes if doing repair and a mis-match occurs.
The stripe dev management will already try and do repair writes
for failing sectors.

This patch makes the raid6 check_state_check_result handling
work more like raid5's.  If somehow too many failures for a
check, just quit the check operation for the stripe.  When any
checks pass, don't try and use check_state_compute_result for
a purpose it isn't needed for and is unsafe for.  Just mark the
stripe as in sync for passing its parity checks and let the
stripe dev read/write code and the bad blocks list do their
job handling I/O errors.

Repro steps from Xiao:

These are the steps to reproduce this problem:
1. redefined OPT_MEDIUM_ERR_ADDR to 12000 in scsi_debug.c
2. insmod scsi_debug.ko dev_size_mb=11000  max_luns=1 num_tgts=1
3. mdadm --create /dev/md127 --level=6 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sde1 /dev/sde2 /dev/sde3 /dev/sde5 /dev/sde6
sde is the disk created by scsi_debug
4. echo "2" &gt;/sys/module/scsi_debug/parameters/opts
5. raid-check

It panic:
[ 4854.730899] md: data-check of RAID array md127
[ 4854.857455] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.859246] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.860694] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.862207] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2d 88 00 04 00 00
[ 4854.864196] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 11656 flags 0
[ 4854.867409] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.869469] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.871206] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.872858] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2e e0 00 00 08 00
[ 4854.874587] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 12000 flags 4000
[ 4854.876456] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.878552] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.880278] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.881846] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2e e8 00 00 08 00
[ 4854.883691] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 12008 flags 4000
[ 4854.893927] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.896002] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.897561] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.899110] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2e e0 00 00 10 00
[ 4854.900989] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 12000 flags 0
[ 4854.902757] md/raid:md127: read error NOT corrected!! (sector 9952 on sdr1).
[ 4854.904375] md/raid:md127: read error NOT corrected!! (sector 9960 on sdr1).
[ 4854.906201] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 4854.907341] kernel BUG at drivers/md/raid5.c:4190!

raid5.c:4190 above is this BUG_ON:

    handle_parity_checks6()
        ...
        BUG_ON(s-&gt;uptodate &lt; disks - 1); /* We don't need Q to recover */

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.16+
OriginalAuthor: David Jeffery &lt;djeffery@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Xiao Ni &lt;xni@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Jeffery &lt;djeffery@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Jeffy &lt;djeffery@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nigel Croxon &lt;ncroxon@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4f4fd7c5798bbdd5a03a60f6269cf1177fbd11ef upstream.

Changing state from check_state_check_result to
check_state_compute_result not only is unsafe but also doesn't
appear to serve a valid purpose.  A raid6 check should only be
pushing out extra writes if doing repair and a mis-match occurs.
The stripe dev management will already try and do repair writes
for failing sectors.

This patch makes the raid6 check_state_check_result handling
work more like raid5's.  If somehow too many failures for a
check, just quit the check operation for the stripe.  When any
checks pass, don't try and use check_state_compute_result for
a purpose it isn't needed for and is unsafe for.  Just mark the
stripe as in sync for passing its parity checks and let the
stripe dev read/write code and the bad blocks list do their
job handling I/O errors.

Repro steps from Xiao:

These are the steps to reproduce this problem:
1. redefined OPT_MEDIUM_ERR_ADDR to 12000 in scsi_debug.c
2. insmod scsi_debug.ko dev_size_mb=11000  max_luns=1 num_tgts=1
3. mdadm --create /dev/md127 --level=6 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sde1 /dev/sde2 /dev/sde3 /dev/sde5 /dev/sde6
sde is the disk created by scsi_debug
4. echo "2" &gt;/sys/module/scsi_debug/parameters/opts
5. raid-check

It panic:
[ 4854.730899] md: data-check of RAID array md127
[ 4854.857455] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.859246] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.860694] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.862207] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#80 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2d 88 00 04 00 00
[ 4854.864196] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 11656 flags 0
[ 4854.867409] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.869469] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.871206] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.872858] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#100 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2e e0 00 00 08 00
[ 4854.874587] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 12000 flags 4000
[ 4854.876456] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.878552] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.880278] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.881846] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#101 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2e e8 00 00 08 00
[ 4854.883691] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 12008 flags 4000
[ 4854.893927] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 4854.896002] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 4854.897561] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 4854.899110] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdr] tag#166 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 2e e0 00 00 10 00
[ 4854.900989] print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdr, sector 12000 flags 0
[ 4854.902757] md/raid:md127: read error NOT corrected!! (sector 9952 on sdr1).
[ 4854.904375] md/raid:md127: read error NOT corrected!! (sector 9960 on sdr1).
[ 4854.906201] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 4854.907341] kernel BUG at drivers/md/raid5.c:4190!

raid5.c:4190 above is this BUG_ON:

    handle_parity_checks6()
        ...
        BUG_ON(s-&gt;uptodate &lt; disks - 1); /* We don't need Q to recover */

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.16+
OriginalAuthor: David Jeffery &lt;djeffery@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Xiao Ni &lt;xni@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Jeffery &lt;djeffery@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Jeffy &lt;djeffery@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nigel Croxon &lt;ncroxon@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>bcache: improve sysfs_strtoul_clamp()</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T07:30:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>colyli@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-09T04:52:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 596b5a5dd1bc2fa019fdaaae522ef331deef927f ]

Currently sysfs_strtoul_clamp() is defined as,
 82 #define sysfs_strtoul_clamp(file, var, min, max)                   \
 83 do {                                                               \
 84         if (attr == &amp;sysfs_ ## file)                               \
 85                 return strtoul_safe_clamp(buf, var, min, max)      \
 86                         ?: (ssize_t) size;                         \
 87 } while (0)

The problem is, if bit width of var is less then unsigned long, min and
max may not protect var from integer overflow, because overflow happens
in strtoul_safe_clamp() before checking min and max.

To fix such overflow in sysfs_strtoul_clamp(), to make min and max take
effect, this patch adds an unsigned long variable, and uses it to macro
strtoul_safe_clamp() to convert an unsigned long value in range defined
by [min, max]. Then assign this value to var. By this method, if bit
width of var is less than unsigned long, integer overflow won't happen
before min and max are checking.

Now sysfs_strtoul_clamp() can properly handle smaller data type like
unsigned int, of cause min and max should be defined in range of
unsigned int too.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 596b5a5dd1bc2fa019fdaaae522ef331deef927f ]

Currently sysfs_strtoul_clamp() is defined as,
 82 #define sysfs_strtoul_clamp(file, var, min, max)                   \
 83 do {                                                               \
 84         if (attr == &amp;sysfs_ ## file)                               \
 85                 return strtoul_safe_clamp(buf, var, min, max)      \
 86                         ?: (ssize_t) size;                         \
 87 } while (0)

The problem is, if bit width of var is less then unsigned long, min and
max may not protect var from integer overflow, because overflow happens
in strtoul_safe_clamp() before checking min and max.

To fix such overflow in sysfs_strtoul_clamp(), to make min and max take
effect, this patch adds an unsigned long variable, and uses it to macro
strtoul_safe_clamp() to convert an unsigned long value in range defined
by [min, max]. Then assign this value to var. By this method, if bit
width of var is less than unsigned long, integer overflow won't happen
before min and max are checking.

Now sysfs_strtoul_clamp() can properly handle smaller data type like
unsigned int, of cause min and max should be defined in range of
unsigned int too.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: fix input overflow to sequential_cutoff</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T07:30:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>colyli@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-09T04:53:01+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8c27a3953e92eb0b22dbb03d599f543a05f9574e ]

People may set sequential_cutoff of a cached device via sysfs file,
but current code does not check input value overflow. E.g. if value
4294967295 (UINT_MAX) is written to file sequential_cutoff, its value
is 4GB, but if 4294967296 (UINT_MAX + 1) is written into, its value
will be 0. This is an unexpected behavior.

This patch replaces d_strtoi_h() by sysfs_strtoul_clamp() to convert
input string to unsigned integer value, and limit its range in
[0, UINT_MAX]. Then the input overflow can be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8c27a3953e92eb0b22dbb03d599f543a05f9574e ]

People may set sequential_cutoff of a cached device via sysfs file,
but current code does not check input value overflow. E.g. if value
4294967295 (UINT_MAX) is written to file sequential_cutoff, its value
is 4GB, but if 4294967296 (UINT_MAX + 1) is written into, its value
will be 0. This is an unexpected behavior.

This patch replaces d_strtoi_h() by sysfs_strtoul_clamp() to convert
input string to unsigned integer value, and limit its range in
[0, UINT_MAX]. Then the input overflow can be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: fix input overflow to cache set sysfs file io_error_halflife</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T07:30:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>colyli@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-09T04:53:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a91fbda49f746119828f7e8ad0f0aa2ab0578f65 ]

Cache set sysfs entry io_error_halflife is used to set c-&gt;error_decay.
c-&gt;error_decay is in type unsigned int, and it is converted by
strtoul_or_return(), therefore overflow to c-&gt;error_decay is possible
for a large input value.

This patch fixes the overflow by using strtoul_safe_clamp() to convert
input string to an unsigned long value in range [0, UINT_MAX], then
divides by 88 and set it to c-&gt;error_decay.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a91fbda49f746119828f7e8ad0f0aa2ab0578f65 ]

Cache set sysfs entry io_error_halflife is used to set c-&gt;error_decay.
c-&gt;error_decay is in type unsigned int, and it is converted by
strtoul_or_return(), therefore overflow to c-&gt;error_decay is possible
for a large input value.

This patch fixes the overflow by using strtoul_safe_clamp() to convert
input string to an unsigned long value in range [0, UINT_MAX], then
divides by 88 and set it to c-&gt;error_decay.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm thin: add sanity checks to thin-pool and external snapshot creation</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T07:30:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Cai (Xiang Feng)</name>
<email>jason.cai.kern@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-20T14:39:13+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 70de2cbda8a5d788284469e755f8b097d339c240 ]

Invoking dm_get_device() twice on the same device path with different
modes is dangerous.  Because in that case, upgrade_mode() will alloc a
new 'dm_dev' and free the old one, which may be referenced by a previous
caller.  Dereferencing the dangling pointer will trigger kernel NULL
pointer dereference.

The following two cases can reproduce this issue.  Actually, they are
invalid setups that must be disallowed, e.g.:

1. Creating a thin-pool with read_only mode, and the same device as
both metadata and data.

dmsetup create thinp --table \
    "0 41943040 thin-pool /dev/vdb /dev/vdb 128 0 1 read_only"

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000080
...
Call Trace:
 new_read+0xfb/0x110 [dm_bufio]
 dm_bm_read_lock+0x43/0x190 [dm_persistent_data]
 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x15c/0x1e0
 __create_persistent_data_objects+0x65/0x3e0 [dm_thin_pool]
 dm_pool_metadata_open+0x8c/0xf0 [dm_thin_pool]
 pool_ctr.cold.79+0x213/0x913 [dm_thin_pool]
 ? realloc_argv+0x50/0x70 [dm_mod]
 dm_table_add_target+0x14e/0x330 [dm_mod]
 table_load+0x122/0x2e0 [dm_mod]
 ? dev_status+0x40/0x40 [dm_mod]
 ctl_ioctl+0x1aa/0x3e0 [dm_mod]
 dm_ctl_ioctl+0xa/0x10 [dm_mod]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0xa2/0x600
 ? handle_mm_fault+0xda/0x200
 ? __do_page_fault+0x26c/0x4f0
 ksys_ioctl+0x60/0x90
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0x150
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

2. Creating a external snapshot using the same thin-pool device.

dmsetup create thinp --table \
    "0 41943040 thin-pool /dev/vdc /dev/vdb 128 0 2 ignore_discard"
dmsetup message /dev/mapper/thinp 0 "create_thin 0"
dmsetup create snap --table \
            "0 204800 thin /dev/mapper/thinp 0 /dev/mapper/thinp"

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
...
Call Trace:
? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x13c/0x2e0
retrieve_status+0xa5/0x1f0 [dm_mod]
? dm_get_live_or_inactive_table.isra.7+0x20/0x20 [dm_mod]
 table_status+0x61/0xa0 [dm_mod]
 ctl_ioctl+0x1aa/0x3e0 [dm_mod]
 dm_ctl_ioctl+0xa/0x10 [dm_mod]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0xa2/0x600
 ksys_ioctl+0x60/0x90
 ? ksys_write+0x4f/0xb0
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0x150
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Signed-off-by: Jason Cai (Xiang Feng) &lt;jason.cai@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 70de2cbda8a5d788284469e755f8b097d339c240 ]

Invoking dm_get_device() twice on the same device path with different
modes is dangerous.  Because in that case, upgrade_mode() will alloc a
new 'dm_dev' and free the old one, which may be referenced by a previous
caller.  Dereferencing the dangling pointer will trigger kernel NULL
pointer dereference.

The following two cases can reproduce this issue.  Actually, they are
invalid setups that must be disallowed, e.g.:

1. Creating a thin-pool with read_only mode, and the same device as
both metadata and data.

dmsetup create thinp --table \
    "0 41943040 thin-pool /dev/vdb /dev/vdb 128 0 1 read_only"

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000080
...
Call Trace:
 new_read+0xfb/0x110 [dm_bufio]
 dm_bm_read_lock+0x43/0x190 [dm_persistent_data]
 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x15c/0x1e0
 __create_persistent_data_objects+0x65/0x3e0 [dm_thin_pool]
 dm_pool_metadata_open+0x8c/0xf0 [dm_thin_pool]
 pool_ctr.cold.79+0x213/0x913 [dm_thin_pool]
 ? realloc_argv+0x50/0x70 [dm_mod]
 dm_table_add_target+0x14e/0x330 [dm_mod]
 table_load+0x122/0x2e0 [dm_mod]
 ? dev_status+0x40/0x40 [dm_mod]
 ctl_ioctl+0x1aa/0x3e0 [dm_mod]
 dm_ctl_ioctl+0xa/0x10 [dm_mod]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0xa2/0x600
 ? handle_mm_fault+0xda/0x200
 ? __do_page_fault+0x26c/0x4f0
 ksys_ioctl+0x60/0x90
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0x150
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

2. Creating a external snapshot using the same thin-pool device.

dmsetup create thinp --table \
    "0 41943040 thin-pool /dev/vdc /dev/vdb 128 0 2 ignore_discard"
dmsetup message /dev/mapper/thinp 0 "create_thin 0"
dmsetup create snap --table \
            "0 204800 thin /dev/mapper/thinp 0 /dev/mapper/thinp"

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
...
Call Trace:
? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x13c/0x2e0
retrieve_status+0xa5/0x1f0 [dm_mod]
? dm_get_live_or_inactive_table.isra.7+0x20/0x20 [dm_mod]
 table_status+0x61/0xa0 [dm_mod]
 ctl_ioctl+0x1aa/0x3e0 [dm_mod]
 dm_ctl_ioctl+0xa/0x10 [dm_mod]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0xa2/0x600
 ksys_ioctl+0x60/0x90
 ? ksys_write+0x4f/0xb0
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0x150
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Signed-off-by: Jason Cai (Xiang Feng) &lt;jason.cai@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>md: Fix failed allocation of md_register_thread</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T07:19:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aditya Pakki</name>
<email>pakki001@umn.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-04T22:48:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=73929a01c5659088b6a4aa54a2bc131b89dbfc0b'/>
<id>73929a01c5659088b6a4aa54a2bc131b89dbfc0b</id>
<content type='text'>
commit e406f12dde1a8375d77ea02d91f313fb1a9c6aec upstream.

mddev-&gt;sync_thread can be set to NULL on kzalloc failure downstream.
The patch checks for such a scenario and frees allocated resources.

Committer node:

Added similar fix to raid5.c, as suggested by Guoqing.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+
Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang &lt;gqjiang@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki &lt;pakki001@umn.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit e406f12dde1a8375d77ea02d91f313fb1a9c6aec upstream.

mddev-&gt;sync_thread can be set to NULL on kzalloc failure downstream.
The patch checks for such a scenario and frees allocated resources.

Committer node:

Added similar fix to raid5.c, as suggested by Guoqing.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+
Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang &lt;gqjiang@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki &lt;pakki001@umn.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>It's wrong to add len to sector_nr in raid10 reshape twice</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T07:18:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiao Ni</name>
<email>xni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-08T15:52:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=010feb981f7581aa4986a21bac188310d6afe5b2'/>
<id>010feb981f7581aa4986a21bac188310d6afe5b2</id>
<content type='text'>
commit b761dcf1217760a42f7897c31dcb649f59b2333e upstream.

In reshape_request it already adds len to sector_nr already. It's wrong to add len to
sector_nr again after adding pages to bio. If there is bad block it can't copy one chunk
at a time, it needs to goto read_more. Now the sector_nr is wrong. It can cause data
corruption.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+
Signed-off-by: Xiao Ni &lt;xni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit b761dcf1217760a42f7897c31dcb649f59b2333e upstream.

In reshape_request it already adds len to sector_nr already. It's wrong to add len to
sector_nr again after adding pages to bio. If there is bad block it can't copy one chunk
at a time, it needs to goto read_more. Now the sector_nr is wrong. It can cause data
corruption.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+
Signed-off-by: Xiao Ni &lt;xni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm snapshot: Fix excessive memory usage and workqueue stalls</title>
<updated>2019-01-26T08:44:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikos Tsironis</name>
<email>ntsironis@arrikto.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-31T21:53:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1d8db45d31789884302798495ce635a6df9de868'/>
<id>1d8db45d31789884302798495ce635a6df9de868</id>
<content type='text'>
[ Upstream commit 721b1d98fb517ae99ab3b757021cf81db41e67be ]

kcopyd has no upper limit to the number of jobs one can allocate and
issue. Under certain workloads this can lead to excessive memory usage
and workqueue stalls. For example, when creating multiple dm-snapshot
targets with a 4K chunk size and then writing to the origin through the
page cache. Syncing the page cache causes a large number of BIOs to be
issued to the dm-snapshot origin target, which itself issues an even
larger (because of the BIO splitting taking place) number of kcopyd
jobs.

Running the following test, from the device mapper test suite [1],

  dmtest run --suite snapshot -n many_snapshots_of_same_volume_N

, with 8 active snapshots, results in the kcopyd job slab cache growing
to 10G. Depending on the available system RAM this can lead to the OOM
killer killing user processes:

[463.492878] kthreadd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x6040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP),
              nodemask=(null), order=1, oom_score_adj=0
[463.492894] kthreadd cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
[463.492948] CPU: 7 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 4.19.0-rc7 #3
[463.492950] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
[463.492952] Call Trace:
[463.492964]  dump_stack+0x7d/0xbb
[463.492973]  dump_header+0x6b/0x2fc
[463.492987]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xee/0x190
[463.493012]  oom_kill_process+0x302/0x370
[463.493021]  out_of_memory+0x113/0x560
[463.493030]  __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xf40/0x1020
[463.493055]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x348/0x3c0
[463.493067]  cache_grow_begin+0x81/0x8b0
[463.493072]  ? cache_grow_begin+0x874/0x8b0
[463.493078]  fallback_alloc+0x1e4/0x280
[463.493092]  kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xd6/0x370
[463.493098]  ? copy_process.part.31+0x1c5/0x20d0
[463.493105]  copy_process.part.31+0x1c5/0x20d0
[463.493115]  ? __lock_acquire+0x3cc/0x1550
[463.493121]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70
[463.493129]  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
[463.493135]  ? finish_task_switch+0x90/0x280
[463.493165]  _do_fork+0xe0/0x6d0
[463.493191]  ? kthreadd+0x19f/0x220
[463.493233]  kernel_thread+0x25/0x30
[463.493235]  kthreadd+0x1bf/0x220
[463.493242]  ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x90/0x90
[463.493248]  ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
[463.493279] Mem-Info:
[463.493285] active_anon:20631 inactive_anon:4831 isolated_anon:0
[463.493285]  active_file:80216 inactive_file:80107 isolated_file:435
[463.493285]  unevictable:0 dirty:51266 writeback:109372 unstable:0
[463.493285]  slab_reclaimable:31191 slab_unreclaimable:3483521
[463.493285]  mapped:526 shmem:4903 pagetables:1759 bounce:0
[463.493285]  free:33623 free_pcp:2392 free_cma:0
...
[463.493489] Unreclaimable slab info:
[463.493513] Name                      Used          Total
[463.493522] bio-6                   1028KB       1028KB
[463.493525] bio-5                   1028KB       1028KB
[463.493528] dm_snap_pending_exception     236783KB     243789KB
[463.493531] dm_exception              41KB         42KB
[463.493534] bio-4                   1216KB       1216KB
[463.493537] bio-3                 439396KB     439396KB
[463.493539] kcopyd_job           6973427KB    6973427KB
...
[463.494340] Out of memory: Kill process 1298 (ruby2.3) score 1 or sacrifice child
[463.494673] Killed process 1298 (ruby2.3) total-vm:435740kB, anon-rss:20180kB, file-rss:4kB, shmem-rss:0kB
[463.506437] oom_reaper: reaped process 1298 (ruby2.3), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB

Moreover, issuing a large number of kcopyd jobs results in kcopyd
hogging the CPU, while processing them. As a result, processing of work
items, queued for execution on the same CPU as the currently running
kcopyd thread, is stalled for long periods of time, hurting performance.
Running the aforementioned test we get, in dmesg, messages like the
following:

[67501.194592] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 27s!
[67501.195586] Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
[67501.195591] workqueue events: flags=0x0
[67501.195597]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195611]     pending: cache_reap
[67501.195641] workqueue mm_percpu_wq: flags=0x8
[67501.195645]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195656]     pending: vmstat_update
[67501.195682] workqueue kblockd: flags=0x18
[67501.195687]   pwq 5: cpus=2 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 active=1/256
[67501.195698]     pending: blk_timeout_work
[67501.195753] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[67501.195757]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195768]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195802] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[67501.195806]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195817]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195834] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[67501.195838]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195848]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195881] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[67501.195885]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195896]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195920] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[67501.195924]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
[67501.195935]     in-flight: 67:do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195945]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195961] pool 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 hung=27s workers=3 idle: 129 23765

The root cause for these issues is the way dm-snapshot uses kcopyd. In
particular, the lack of an explicit or implicit limit to the maximum
number of in-flight COW jobs. The merging path is not affected because
it implicitly limits the in-flight kcopyd jobs to one.

Fix these issues by using a semaphore to limit the maximum number of
in-flight kcopyd jobs. We grab the semaphore before allocating a new
kcopyd job in start_copy() and start_full_bio() and release it after the
job finishes in copy_callback().

The initial semaphore value is configurable through a module parameter,
to allow fine tuning the maximum number of in-flight COW jobs. Setting
this parameter to zero initializes the semaphore to INT_MAX.

A default value of 2048 maximum in-flight kcopyd jobs was chosen. This
value was decided experimentally as a trade-off between memory
consumption, stalling the kernel's workqueues and maintaining a high
enough throughput.

Re-running the aforementioned test:

  * Workqueue stalls are eliminated
  * kcopyd's job slab cache uses a maximum of 130MB
  * The time taken by the test to write to the snapshot-origin target is
    reduced from 05m20.48s to 03m26.38s

[1] https://github.com/jthornber/device-mapper-test-suite

Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis &lt;ntsironis@arrikto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis &lt;iliastsi@arrikto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
[ Upstream commit 721b1d98fb517ae99ab3b757021cf81db41e67be ]

kcopyd has no upper limit to the number of jobs one can allocate and
issue. Under certain workloads this can lead to excessive memory usage
and workqueue stalls. For example, when creating multiple dm-snapshot
targets with a 4K chunk size and then writing to the origin through the
page cache. Syncing the page cache causes a large number of BIOs to be
issued to the dm-snapshot origin target, which itself issues an even
larger (because of the BIO splitting taking place) number of kcopyd
jobs.

Running the following test, from the device mapper test suite [1],

  dmtest run --suite snapshot -n many_snapshots_of_same_volume_N

, with 8 active snapshots, results in the kcopyd job slab cache growing
to 10G. Depending on the available system RAM this can lead to the OOM
killer killing user processes:

[463.492878] kthreadd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x6040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP),
              nodemask=(null), order=1, oom_score_adj=0
[463.492894] kthreadd cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
[463.492948] CPU: 7 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 4.19.0-rc7 #3
[463.492950] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
[463.492952] Call Trace:
[463.492964]  dump_stack+0x7d/0xbb
[463.492973]  dump_header+0x6b/0x2fc
[463.492987]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xee/0x190
[463.493012]  oom_kill_process+0x302/0x370
[463.493021]  out_of_memory+0x113/0x560
[463.493030]  __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xf40/0x1020
[463.493055]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x348/0x3c0
[463.493067]  cache_grow_begin+0x81/0x8b0
[463.493072]  ? cache_grow_begin+0x874/0x8b0
[463.493078]  fallback_alloc+0x1e4/0x280
[463.493092]  kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xd6/0x370
[463.493098]  ? copy_process.part.31+0x1c5/0x20d0
[463.493105]  copy_process.part.31+0x1c5/0x20d0
[463.493115]  ? __lock_acquire+0x3cc/0x1550
[463.493121]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70
[463.493129]  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
[463.493135]  ? finish_task_switch+0x90/0x280
[463.493165]  _do_fork+0xe0/0x6d0
[463.493191]  ? kthreadd+0x19f/0x220
[463.493233]  kernel_thread+0x25/0x30
[463.493235]  kthreadd+0x1bf/0x220
[463.493242]  ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x90/0x90
[463.493248]  ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
[463.493279] Mem-Info:
[463.493285] active_anon:20631 inactive_anon:4831 isolated_anon:0
[463.493285]  active_file:80216 inactive_file:80107 isolated_file:435
[463.493285]  unevictable:0 dirty:51266 writeback:109372 unstable:0
[463.493285]  slab_reclaimable:31191 slab_unreclaimable:3483521
[463.493285]  mapped:526 shmem:4903 pagetables:1759 bounce:0
[463.493285]  free:33623 free_pcp:2392 free_cma:0
...
[463.493489] Unreclaimable slab info:
[463.493513] Name                      Used          Total
[463.493522] bio-6                   1028KB       1028KB
[463.493525] bio-5                   1028KB       1028KB
[463.493528] dm_snap_pending_exception     236783KB     243789KB
[463.493531] dm_exception              41KB         42KB
[463.493534] bio-4                   1216KB       1216KB
[463.493537] bio-3                 439396KB     439396KB
[463.493539] kcopyd_job           6973427KB    6973427KB
...
[463.494340] Out of memory: Kill process 1298 (ruby2.3) score 1 or sacrifice child
[463.494673] Killed process 1298 (ruby2.3) total-vm:435740kB, anon-rss:20180kB, file-rss:4kB, shmem-rss:0kB
[463.506437] oom_reaper: reaped process 1298 (ruby2.3), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB

Moreover, issuing a large number of kcopyd jobs results in kcopyd
hogging the CPU, while processing them. As a result, processing of work
items, queued for execution on the same CPU as the currently running
kcopyd thread, is stalled for long periods of time, hurting performance.
Running the aforementioned test we get, in dmesg, messages like the
following:

[67501.194592] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 27s!
[67501.195586] Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
[67501.195591] workqueue events: flags=0x0
[67501.195597]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195611]     pending: cache_reap
[67501.195641] workqueue mm_percpu_wq: flags=0x8
[67501.195645]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195656]     pending: vmstat_update
[67501.195682] workqueue kblockd: flags=0x18
[67501.195687]   pwq 5: cpus=2 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 active=1/256
[67501.195698]     pending: blk_timeout_work
[67501.195753] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[67501.195757]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195768]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195802] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[67501.195806]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195817]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195834] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[67501.195838]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195848]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195881] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[67501.195885]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[67501.195896]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195920] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[67501.195924]   pwq 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
[67501.195935]     in-flight: 67:do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195945]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[67501.195961] pool 8: cpus=4 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 hung=27s workers=3 idle: 129 23765

The root cause for these issues is the way dm-snapshot uses kcopyd. In
particular, the lack of an explicit or implicit limit to the maximum
number of in-flight COW jobs. The merging path is not affected because
it implicitly limits the in-flight kcopyd jobs to one.

Fix these issues by using a semaphore to limit the maximum number of
in-flight kcopyd jobs. We grab the semaphore before allocating a new
kcopyd job in start_copy() and start_full_bio() and release it after the
job finishes in copy_callback().

The initial semaphore value is configurable through a module parameter,
to allow fine tuning the maximum number of in-flight COW jobs. Setting
this parameter to zero initializes the semaphore to INT_MAX.

A default value of 2048 maximum in-flight kcopyd jobs was chosen. This
value was decided experimentally as a trade-off between memory
consumption, stalling the kernel's workqueues and maintaining a high
enough throughput.

Re-running the aforementioned test:

  * Workqueue stalls are eliminated
  * kcopyd's job slab cache uses a maximum of 130MB
  * The time taken by the test to write to the snapshot-origin target is
    reduced from 05m20.48s to 03m26.38s

[1] https://github.com/jthornber/device-mapper-test-suite

Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis &lt;ntsironis@arrikto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis &lt;iliastsi@arrikto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm kcopyd: Fix bug causing workqueue stalls</title>
<updated>2019-01-26T08:44:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikos Tsironis</name>
<email>ntsironis@arrikto.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-31T21:53:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4982226e1d2d65794f1cc7e2f2951763548f5ef6'/>
<id>4982226e1d2d65794f1cc7e2f2951763548f5ef6</id>
<content type='text'>
[ Upstream commit d7e6b8dfc7bcb3f4f3a18313581f67486a725b52 ]

When using kcopyd to run callbacks through dm_kcopyd_do_callback() or
submitting copy jobs with a source size of 0, the jobs are pushed
directly to the complete_jobs list, which could be under processing by
the kcopyd thread. As a result, the kcopyd thread can continue running
completed jobs indefinitely, without releasing the CPU, as long as
someone keeps submitting new completed jobs through the aforementioned
paths. Processing of work items, queued for execution on the same CPU as
the currently running kcopyd thread, is thus stalled for excessive
amounts of time, hurting performance.

Running the following test, from the device mapper test suite [1],

  dmtest run --suite snapshot -n parallel_io_to_many_snaps_N

, with 8 active snapshots, we get, in dmesg, messages like the
following:

[68899.948523] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 95s!
[68899.949282] Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
[68899.949288] workqueue events: flags=0x0
[68899.949295]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
[68899.949306]     pending: vmstat_shepherd, cache_reap
[68899.949331] workqueue mm_percpu_wq: flags=0x8
[68899.949337]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949345]     pending: vmstat_update
[68899.949387] workqueue dm_bufio_cache: flags=0x8
[68899.949392]   pwq 4: cpus=2 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949400]     pending: work_fn [dm_bufio]
[68899.949423] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[68899.949429]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949437]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949452] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[68899.949458]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
[68899.949466]     in-flight: 13:do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949474]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949487] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[68899.949493]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949501]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949515] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[68899.949521]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949529]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949541] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[68899.949547]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949555]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949568] pool 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 hung=95s workers=4 idle: 27130 27223 1084

Fix this by splitting the complete_jobs list into two parts: A user
facing part, named callback_jobs, and one used internally by kcopyd,
retaining the name complete_jobs. dm_kcopyd_do_callback() and
dispatch_job() now push their jobs to the callback_jobs list, which is
spliced to the complete_jobs list once, every time the kcopyd thread
wakes up. This prevents kcopyd from hogging the CPU indefinitely and
causing workqueue stalls.

Re-running the aforementioned test:

  * Workqueue stalls are eliminated
  * The maximum writing time among all targets is reduced from 09m37.10s
    to 06m04.85s and the total run time of the test is reduced from
    10m43.591s to 7m19.199s

[1] https://github.com/jthornber/device-mapper-test-suite

Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis &lt;ntsironis@arrikto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis &lt;iliastsi@arrikto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d7e6b8dfc7bcb3f4f3a18313581f67486a725b52 ]

When using kcopyd to run callbacks through dm_kcopyd_do_callback() or
submitting copy jobs with a source size of 0, the jobs are pushed
directly to the complete_jobs list, which could be under processing by
the kcopyd thread. As a result, the kcopyd thread can continue running
completed jobs indefinitely, without releasing the CPU, as long as
someone keeps submitting new completed jobs through the aforementioned
paths. Processing of work items, queued for execution on the same CPU as
the currently running kcopyd thread, is thus stalled for excessive
amounts of time, hurting performance.

Running the following test, from the device mapper test suite [1],

  dmtest run --suite snapshot -n parallel_io_to_many_snaps_N

, with 8 active snapshots, we get, in dmesg, messages like the
following:

[68899.948523] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 95s!
[68899.949282] Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
[68899.949288] workqueue events: flags=0x0
[68899.949295]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
[68899.949306]     pending: vmstat_shepherd, cache_reap
[68899.949331] workqueue mm_percpu_wq: flags=0x8
[68899.949337]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949345]     pending: vmstat_update
[68899.949387] workqueue dm_bufio_cache: flags=0x8
[68899.949392]   pwq 4: cpus=2 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949400]     pending: work_fn [dm_bufio]
[68899.949423] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[68899.949429]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949437]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949452] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[68899.949458]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
[68899.949466]     in-flight: 13:do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949474]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949487] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[68899.949493]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949501]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949515] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[68899.949521]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949529]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949541] workqueue kcopyd: flags=0x8
[68899.949547]   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256
[68899.949555]     pending: do_work [dm_mod]
[68899.949568] pool 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 hung=95s workers=4 idle: 27130 27223 1084

Fix this by splitting the complete_jobs list into two parts: A user
facing part, named callback_jobs, and one used internally by kcopyd,
retaining the name complete_jobs. dm_kcopyd_do_callback() and
dispatch_job() now push their jobs to the callback_jobs list, which is
spliced to the complete_jobs list once, every time the kcopyd thread
wakes up. This prevents kcopyd from hogging the CPU indefinitely and
causing workqueue stalls.

Re-running the aforementioned test:

  * Workqueue stalls are eliminated
  * The maximum writing time among all targets is reduced from 09m37.10s
    to 06m04.85s and the total run time of the test is reduced from
    10m43.591s to 7m19.199s

[1] https://github.com/jthornber/device-mapper-test-suite

Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis &lt;ntsironis@arrikto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis &lt;iliastsi@arrikto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>dm: remove duplicate dm_get_live_table() in __dm_destroy()</title>
<updated>2018-11-22T06:32:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Corey Wright</name>
<email>undefined@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-11T08:22:36+00:00</published>
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[3.18.y only, to fix a previous patch]

__dm_destroy() takes io_barrier SRCU lock (dm_get_live_table) twice
which leads to a deadlock.  Remove taking lock before holding
suspend_lock to prevent a different potential deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Corey Wright &lt;undefined@pobox.com&gt;
Fixes: e1db66a5fdcc ("dm: fix AB-BA deadlock in __dm_destroy()")
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[3.18.y only, to fix a previous patch]

__dm_destroy() takes io_barrier SRCU lock (dm_get_live_table) twice
which leads to a deadlock.  Remove taking lock before holding
suspend_lock to prevent a different potential deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Corey Wright &lt;undefined@pobox.com&gt;
Fixes: e1db66a5fdcc ("dm: fix AB-BA deadlock in __dm_destroy()")
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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