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<title>fscache: fix race between enablement and dropping of object</title>
<updated>2018-12-17T08:38:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
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<published>2018-10-26T06:16:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c5a94f434c82529afda290df3235e4d85873c5b4 ]

It was observed that a process blocked indefintely in
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page(), waiting for FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP
to be cleared via fscache_wait_for_deferred_lookup().

At this time, -&gt;backing_objects was empty, which would normaly prevent
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page() from getting to the point of waiting.
This implies that -&gt;backing_objects was cleared *after*
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page was was entered.

When an object is "killed" and then "dropped",
FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP is cleared in fscache_lookup_failure(), then
KILL_OBJECT and DROP_OBJECT are "called" and only in DROP_OBJECT is
-&gt;backing_objects cleared.  This leaves a window where
something else can set FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP and
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page() can start waiting, before
-&gt;backing_objects is cleared

There is some uncertainty in this analysis, but it seems to be fit the
observations.  Adding the wake in this patch will be handled correctly
by __fscache_read_or_alloc_page(), as it checks if -&gt;backing_objects
is empty again, after waiting.

Customer which reported the hang, also report that the hang cannot be
reproduced with this fix.

The backtrace for the blocked process looked like:

PID: 29360  TASK: ffff881ff2ac0f80  CPU: 3   COMMAND: "zsh"
 #0 [ffff881ff43efbf8] schedule at ffffffff815e56f1
 #1 [ffff881ff43efc58] bit_wait at ffffffff815e64ed
 #2 [ffff881ff43efc68] __wait_on_bit at ffffffff815e61b8
 #3 [ffff881ff43efca0] out_of_line_wait_on_bit at ffffffff815e625e
 #4 [ffff881ff43efd08] fscache_wait_for_deferred_lookup at ffffffffa04f2e8f [fscache]
 #5 [ffff881ff43efd18] __fscache_read_or_alloc_page at ffffffffa04f2ffe [fscache]
 #6 [ffff881ff43efd58] __nfs_readpage_from_fscache at ffffffffa0679668 [nfs]
 #7 [ffff881ff43efd78] nfs_readpage at ffffffffa067092b [nfs]
 #8 [ffff881ff43efda0] generic_file_read_iter at ffffffff81187a73
 #9 [ffff881ff43efe50] nfs_file_read at ffffffffa066544b [nfs]
#10 [ffff881ff43efe70] __vfs_read at ffffffff811fc756
#11 [ffff881ff43efee8] vfs_read at ffffffff811fccfa
#12 [ffff881ff43eff18] sys_read at ffffffff811fda62
#13 [ffff881ff43eff50] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath at ffffffff815e986e

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c5a94f434c82529afda290df3235e4d85873c5b4 ]

It was observed that a process blocked indefintely in
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page(), waiting for FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP
to be cleared via fscache_wait_for_deferred_lookup().

At this time, -&gt;backing_objects was empty, which would normaly prevent
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page() from getting to the point of waiting.
This implies that -&gt;backing_objects was cleared *after*
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page was was entered.

When an object is "killed" and then "dropped",
FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP is cleared in fscache_lookup_failure(), then
KILL_OBJECT and DROP_OBJECT are "called" and only in DROP_OBJECT is
-&gt;backing_objects cleared.  This leaves a window where
something else can set FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP and
__fscache_read_or_alloc_page() can start waiting, before
-&gt;backing_objects is cleared

There is some uncertainty in this analysis, but it seems to be fit the
observations.  Adding the wake in this patch will be handled correctly
by __fscache_read_or_alloc_page(), as it checks if -&gt;backing_objects
is empty again, after waiting.

Customer which reported the hang, also report that the hang cannot be
reproduced with this fix.

The backtrace for the blocked process looked like:

PID: 29360  TASK: ffff881ff2ac0f80  CPU: 3   COMMAND: "zsh"
 #0 [ffff881ff43efbf8] schedule at ffffffff815e56f1
 #1 [ffff881ff43efc58] bit_wait at ffffffff815e64ed
 #2 [ffff881ff43efc68] __wait_on_bit at ffffffff815e61b8
 #3 [ffff881ff43efca0] out_of_line_wait_on_bit at ffffffff815e625e
 #4 [ffff881ff43efd08] fscache_wait_for_deferred_lookup at ffffffffa04f2e8f [fscache]
 #5 [ffff881ff43efd18] __fscache_read_or_alloc_page at ffffffffa04f2ffe [fscache]
 #6 [ffff881ff43efd58] __nfs_readpage_from_fscache at ffffffffa0679668 [nfs]
 #7 [ffff881ff43efd78] nfs_readpage at ffffffffa067092b [nfs]
 #8 [ffff881ff43efda0] generic_file_read_iter at ffffffff81187a73
 #9 [ffff881ff43efe50] nfs_file_read at ffffffffa066544b [nfs]
#10 [ffff881ff43efe70] __vfs_read at ffffffff811fc756
#11 [ffff881ff43efee8] vfs_read at ffffffff811fccfa
#12 [ffff881ff43eff18] sys_read at ffffffff811fda62
#13 [ffff881ff43eff50] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath at ffffffff815e986e

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fscache: Allow cancelled operations to be enqueued</title>
<updated>2018-09-05T07:20:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kiran Kumar Modukuri</name>
<email>kiran.modukuri@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-25T13:31:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d0eb06afe712b7b103b6361f40a9a0c638524669 ]

Alter the state-check assertion in fscache_enqueue_operation() to allow
cancelled operations to be given processing time so they can be cleaned up.

Also fix a debugging statement that was requiring such operations to have
an object assigned.

Fixes: 9ae326a69004 ("CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem")
Reported-by: Kiran Kumar Modukuri &lt;kiran.modukuri@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d0eb06afe712b7b103b6361f40a9a0c638524669 ]

Alter the state-check assertion in fscache_enqueue_operation() to allow
cancelled operations to be given processing time so they can be cleaned up.

Also fix a debugging statement that was requiring such operations to have
an object assigned.

Fixes: 9ae326a69004 ("CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem")
Reported-by: Kiran Kumar Modukuri &lt;kiran.modukuri@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fscache: Fix hanging wait on page discarded by writeback</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:50:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-04T12:41:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2c98425720233ae3e135add0c7e869b32913502f ]

If the fscache asynchronous write operation elects to discard a page that's
pending storage to the cache because the page would be over the store limit
then it needs to wake the page as someone may be waiting on completion of
the write.

The problem is that the store limit may be updated by a different
asynchronous operation - and so may miss the write - and that the store
limit may not even get updated until later by the netfs.

Fix the kernel hang by making fscache_write_op() mark as written any pages
that are over the limit.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2c98425720233ae3e135add0c7e869b32913502f ]

If the fscache asynchronous write operation elects to discard a page that's
pending storage to the cache because the page would be over the store limit
then it needs to wake the page as someone may be waiting on completion of
the write.

The problem is that the store limit may be updated by a different
asynchronous operation - and so may miss the write - and that the store
limit may not even get updated until later by the netfs.

Fix the kernel hang by making fscache_write_op() mark as written any pages
that are over the limit.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: fix dereference of NULL user_key_payload</title>
<updated>2017-10-27T08:38:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-09T19:40:00+00:00</published>
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commit d124b2c53c7bee6569d2a2d0b18b4a1afde00134 upstream.

When the file /proc/fs/fscache/objects (available with
CONFIG_FSCACHE_OBJECT_LIST=y) is opened, we request a user key with
description "fscache:objlist", then access its payload.  However, a
revoked key has a NULL payload, and we failed to check for this.
request_key() *does* skip revoked keys, but there is still a window
where the key can be revoked before we access its payload.

Fix it by checking for a NULL payload, treating it like a key which was
already revoked at the time it was requested.

Fixes: 4fbf4291aa15 ("FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumped")
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d124b2c53c7bee6569d2a2d0b18b4a1afde00134 upstream.

When the file /proc/fs/fscache/objects (available with
CONFIG_FSCACHE_OBJECT_LIST=y) is opened, we request a user key with
description "fscache:objlist", then access its payload.  However, a
revoked key has a NULL payload, and we failed to check for this.
request_key() *does* skip revoked keys, but there is still a window
where the key can be revoked before we access its payload.

Fix it by checking for a NULL payload, treating it like a key which was
already revoked at the time it was requested.

Fixes: 4fbf4291aa15 ("FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumped")
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>FS-Cache: Initialise stores_lock in netfs cookie</title>
<updated>2017-06-17T04:41:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-24T01:54:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 62deb8187d116581c88c69a2dd9b5c16588545d4 ]

Initialise the stores_lock in fscache netfs cookies.  Technically, it
shouldn't be necessary, since the netfs cookie is an index and stores no
data, but initialising it anyway adds insignificant overhead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steve Dickson &lt;steved@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 62deb8187d116581c88c69a2dd9b5c16588545d4 ]

Initialise the stores_lock in fscache netfs cookies.  Technically, it
shouldn't be necessary, since the netfs cookie is an index and stores no
data, but initialising it anyway adds insignificant overhead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steve Dickson &lt;steved@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fscache: Clear outstanding writes when disabling a cookie</title>
<updated>2017-06-17T04:41:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-24T01:54:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6bdded59c8933940ac7e5b416448276ac89d1144 ]

fscache_disable_cookie() needs to clear the outstanding writes on the
cookie it's disabling because they cannot be completed after.

Without this, fscache_nfs_open_file() gets stuck because it disables the
cookie when the file is opened for writing but can't uncache the pages till
afterwards - otherwise there's a race between the open routine and anyone
who already has it open R/O and is still reading from it.

Looking in /proc/pid/stack of the offending process shows:

[&lt;ffffffffa0142883&gt;] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x82/0x9b [fscache]
[&lt;ffffffffa014336e&gt;] __fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages+0x91/0xe1 [fscache]
[&lt;ffffffffa01740fa&gt;] nfs_fscache_open_file+0x59/0x9e [nfs]
[&lt;ffffffffa01ccf41&gt;] nfs4_file_open+0x17f/0x1b8 [nfsv4]
[&lt;ffffffff8117350e&gt;] do_dentry_open+0x16d/0x2b7
[&lt;ffffffff811743ac&gt;] vfs_open+0x5c/0x65
[&lt;ffffffff81184185&gt;] path_openat+0x785/0x8fb
[&lt;ffffffff81184343&gt;] do_filp_open+0x48/0x9e
[&lt;ffffffff81174710&gt;] do_sys_open+0x13b/0x1cb
[&lt;ffffffff811747b9&gt;] SyS_open+0x19/0x1b
[&lt;ffffffff81001c44&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x80/0x17a
[&lt;ffffffff8165c2da&gt;] return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x7a
[&lt;ffffffffffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffffffffffff

Reported-by: Jianhong Yin &lt;jiyin@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steve Dickson &lt;steved@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6bdded59c8933940ac7e5b416448276ac89d1144 ]

fscache_disable_cookie() needs to clear the outstanding writes on the
cookie it's disabling because they cannot be completed after.

Without this, fscache_nfs_open_file() gets stuck because it disables the
cookie when the file is opened for writing but can't uncache the pages till
afterwards - otherwise there's a race between the open routine and anyone
who already has it open R/O and is still reading from it.

Looking in /proc/pid/stack of the offending process shows:

[&lt;ffffffffa0142883&gt;] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x82/0x9b [fscache]
[&lt;ffffffffa014336e&gt;] __fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages+0x91/0xe1 [fscache]
[&lt;ffffffffa01740fa&gt;] nfs_fscache_open_file+0x59/0x9e [nfs]
[&lt;ffffffffa01ccf41&gt;] nfs4_file_open+0x17f/0x1b8 [nfsv4]
[&lt;ffffffff8117350e&gt;] do_dentry_open+0x16d/0x2b7
[&lt;ffffffff811743ac&gt;] vfs_open+0x5c/0x65
[&lt;ffffffff81184185&gt;] path_openat+0x785/0x8fb
[&lt;ffffffff81184343&gt;] do_filp_open+0x48/0x9e
[&lt;ffffffff81174710&gt;] do_sys_open+0x13b/0x1cb
[&lt;ffffffff811747b9&gt;] SyS_open+0x19/0x1b
[&lt;ffffffff81001c44&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x80/0x17a
[&lt;ffffffff8165c2da&gt;] return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x7a
[&lt;ffffffffffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffffffffffff

Reported-by: Jianhong Yin &lt;jiyin@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steve Dickson &lt;steved@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fscache: Fix dead object requeue</title>
<updated>2017-06-17T04:41:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-24T01:54:04+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e26bfebdfc0d212d366de9990a096665d5c0209a ]

Under some circumstances, an fscache object can become queued such that it
fscache_object_work_func() can be called once the object is in the
OBJECT_DEAD state.  This results in the kernel oopsing when it tries to
invoke the handler for the state (which is hard coded to 0x2).

The way this comes about is something like the following:

 (1) The object dispatcher is processing a work state for an object.  This
     is done in workqueue context.

 (2) An out-of-band event comes in that isn't masked, causing the object to
     be queued, say EV_KILL.

 (3) The object dispatcher finishes processing the current work state on
     that object and then sees there's another event to process, so,
     without returning to the workqueue core, it processes that event too.
     It then follows the chain of events that initiates until we reach
     OBJECT_DEAD without going through a wait state (such as
     WAIT_FOR_CLEARANCE).

     At this point, object-&gt;events may be 0, object-&gt;event_mask will be 0
     and oob_event_mask will be 0.

 (4) The object dispatcher returns to the workqueue processor, and in due
     course, this sees that the object's work item is still queued and
     invokes it again.

 (5) The current state is a work state (OBJECT_DEAD), so the dispatcher
     jumps to it - resulting in an OOPS.

When I'm seeing this, the work state in (1) appears to have been either
LOOK_UP_OBJECT or CREATE_OBJECT (object-&gt;oob_table is
fscache_osm_lookup_oob).

The window for (2) is very small:

 (A) object-&gt;event_mask is cleared whilst the event dispatch process is
     underway - though there's no memory barrier to force this to the top
     of the function.

     The window, therefore is from the time the object was selected by the
     workqueue processor and made requeueable to the time the mask was
     cleared.

 (B) fscache_raise_event() will only queue the object if it manages to set
     the event bit and the corresponding event_mask bit was set.

     The enqueuement is then deferred slightly whilst we get a ref on the
     object and get the per-CPU variable for workqueue congestion.  This
     slight deferral slightly increases the probability by allowing extra
     time for the workqueue to make the item requeueable.

Handle this by giving the dead state a processor function and checking the
for the dead state address rather than seeing if the processor function is
address 0x2.  The dead state processor function can then set a flag to
indicate that it's occurred and give a warning if it occurs more than once
per object.

If this race occurs, an oops similar to the following is seen (note the RIP
value):

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000002
IP: [&lt;0000000000000002&gt;] 0x1
PGD 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: ...
CPU: 17 PID: 16077 Comm: kworker/u48:9 Not tainted 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9/ProLiant DL380 Gen9, BIOS P89 12/27/2015
Workqueue: fscache_object fscache_object_work_func [fscache]
task: ffff880302b63980 ti: ffff880717544000 task.ti: ffff880717544000
RIP: 0010:[&lt;0000000000000002&gt;]  [&lt;0000000000000002&gt;] 0x1
RSP: 0018:ffff880717547df8  EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: ffffffffa0368640 RBX: ffff880edf7a4480 RCX: dead000000200200
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: ffff880edf7a4480
RBP: ffff880717547e18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: dfc40a25cb3a4510
R10: dfc40a25cb3a4510 R11: 0000000000000400 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff880edf7a4510 R14: ffff8817f6153400 R15: 0000000000000600
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88181f420000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 000000000194a000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Stack:
 ffffffffa0363695 ffff880edf7a4510 ffff88093f16f900 ffff8817faa4ec00
 ffff880717547e60 ffffffff8109d5db 00000000faa4ec18 0000000000000000
 ffff8817faa4ec18 ffff88093f16f930 ffff880302b63980 ffff88093f16f900
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffffa0363695&gt;] ? fscache_object_work_func+0xa5/0x200 [fscache]
 [&lt;ffffffff8109d5db&gt;] process_one_work+0x17b/0x470
 [&lt;ffffffff8109e4ac&gt;] worker_thread+0x21c/0x400
 [&lt;ffffffff8109e290&gt;] ? rescuer_thread+0x400/0x400
 [&lt;ffffffff810a5acf&gt;] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
 [&lt;ffffffff810a5a00&gt;] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
 [&lt;ffffffff816460d8&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
 [&lt;ffffffff810a5a00&gt;] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeremy McNicoll &lt;jeremymc@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Sorenson &lt;sorenson@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Benjamin Coddington &lt;bcodding@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington &lt;bcodding@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Under some circumstances, an fscache object can become queued such that it
fscache_object_work_func() can be called once the object is in the
OBJECT_DEAD state.  This results in the kernel oopsing when it tries to
invoke the handler for the state (which is hard coded to 0x2).

The way this comes about is something like the following:

 (1) The object dispatcher is processing a work state for an object.  This
     is done in workqueue context.

 (2) An out-of-band event comes in that isn't masked, causing the object to
     be queued, say EV_KILL.

 (3) The object dispatcher finishes processing the current work state on
     that object and then sees there's another event to process, so,
     without returning to the workqueue core, it processes that event too.
     It then follows the chain of events that initiates until we reach
     OBJECT_DEAD without going through a wait state (such as
     WAIT_FOR_CLEARANCE).

     At this point, object-&gt;events may be 0, object-&gt;event_mask will be 0
     and oob_event_mask will be 0.

 (4) The object dispatcher returns to the workqueue processor, and in due
     course, this sees that the object's work item is still queued and
     invokes it again.

 (5) The current state is a work state (OBJECT_DEAD), so the dispatcher
     jumps to it - resulting in an OOPS.

When I'm seeing this, the work state in (1) appears to have been either
LOOK_UP_OBJECT or CREATE_OBJECT (object-&gt;oob_table is
fscache_osm_lookup_oob).

The window for (2) is very small:

 (A) object-&gt;event_mask is cleared whilst the event dispatch process is
     underway - though there's no memory barrier to force this to the top
     of the function.

     The window, therefore is from the time the object was selected by the
     workqueue processor and made requeueable to the time the mask was
     cleared.

 (B) fscache_raise_event() will only queue the object if it manages to set
     the event bit and the corresponding event_mask bit was set.

     The enqueuement is then deferred slightly whilst we get a ref on the
     object and get the per-CPU variable for workqueue congestion.  This
     slight deferral slightly increases the probability by allowing extra
     time for the workqueue to make the item requeueable.

Handle this by giving the dead state a processor function and checking the
for the dead state address rather than seeing if the processor function is
address 0x2.  The dead state processor function can then set a flag to
indicate that it's occurred and give a warning if it occurs more than once
per object.

If this race occurs, an oops similar to the following is seen (note the RIP
value):

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000002
IP: [&lt;0000000000000002&gt;] 0x1
PGD 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: ...
CPU: 17 PID: 16077 Comm: kworker/u48:9 Not tainted 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9/ProLiant DL380 Gen9, BIOS P89 12/27/2015
Workqueue: fscache_object fscache_object_work_func [fscache]
task: ffff880302b63980 ti: ffff880717544000 task.ti: ffff880717544000
RIP: 0010:[&lt;0000000000000002&gt;]  [&lt;0000000000000002&gt;] 0x1
RSP: 0018:ffff880717547df8  EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: ffffffffa0368640 RBX: ffff880edf7a4480 RCX: dead000000200200
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: ffff880edf7a4480
RBP: ffff880717547e18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: dfc40a25cb3a4510
R10: dfc40a25cb3a4510 R11: 0000000000000400 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff880edf7a4510 R14: ffff8817f6153400 R15: 0000000000000600
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88181f420000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 000000000194a000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Stack:
 ffffffffa0363695 ffff880edf7a4510 ffff88093f16f900 ffff8817faa4ec00
 ffff880717547e60 ffffffff8109d5db 00000000faa4ec18 0000000000000000
 ffff8817faa4ec18 ffff88093f16f930 ffff880302b63980 ffff88093f16f900
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffffa0363695&gt;] ? fscache_object_work_func+0xa5/0x200 [fscache]
 [&lt;ffffffff8109d5db&gt;] process_one_work+0x17b/0x470
 [&lt;ffffffff8109e4ac&gt;] worker_thread+0x21c/0x400
 [&lt;ffffffff8109e290&gt;] ? rescuer_thread+0x400/0x400
 [&lt;ffffffff810a5acf&gt;] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
 [&lt;ffffffff810a5a00&gt;] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
 [&lt;ffffffff816460d8&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
 [&lt;ffffffff810a5a00&gt;] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeremy McNicoll &lt;jeremymc@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Sorenson &lt;sorenson@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Benjamin Coddington &lt;bcodding@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington &lt;bcodding@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<updated>2016-07-01T03:34:49+00:00</updated>
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<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<updated>2016-06-01T08:29:09+00:00</updated>
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<name>Yan, Zheng</name>
<email>zyan@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2016-05-17T03:52:48+00:00</published>
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<title>drop redundant -&gt;owner initializations</title>
<updated>2016-05-29T23:08:00+00:00</updated>
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<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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it's not needed for file_operations of inodes located on fs defined
in the hosting module and for file_operations that go into procfs.

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it's not needed for file_operations of inodes located on fs defined
in the hosting module and for file_operations that go into procfs.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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