Re: [PATCH] xen/xenbus: fix self-deadlock after killing user process

["Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>]

On 21.10.19 14:33, James Dingwall wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 05:03:55PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> In case a user process using xenbus has open transactions and is killed
>> e.g. via ctrl-C the following cleanup of the allocated resources might
>> result in a deadlock due to trying to end a transaction in the xenbus
>> worker thread:
>>
>> [ 2551.474706] INFO: task xenbus:37 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
>> [ 2551.492215]       Tainted: P           OE     5.0.0-29-generic #5
>> [ 2551.510263] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
>> [ 2551.528585] xenbus          D    0    37      2 0x80000080
>> [ 2551.528590] Call Trace:
>> [ 2551.528603]  __schedule+0x2c0/0x870
>> [ 2551.528606]  ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
>> [ 2551.528632]  schedule+0x2c/0x70
>> [ 2551.528637]  xs_talkv+0x1ec/0x2b0
>> [ 2551.528642]  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
>> [ 2551.528645]  xs_single+0x53/0x80
>> [ 2551.528648]  xenbus_transaction_end+0x3b/0x70
>> [ 2551.528651]  xenbus_file_free+0x5a/0x160
>> [ 2551.528654]  xenbus_dev_queue_reply+0xc4/0x220
>> [ 2551.528657]  xenbus_thread+0x7de/0x880
>> [ 2551.528660]  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
>> [ 2551.528665]  kthread+0x121/0x140
>> [ 2551.528667]  ? xb_read+0x1d0/0x1d0
>> [ 2551.528670]  ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
>> [ 2551.528673]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
>>
>> Fix this by doing the cleanup via a workqueue instead.
>>
>> Reported-by: James Dingwall <james@dingwall.me.uk>
>> Fixes: fd8aa9095a95c ("xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses")
>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.11
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c
>> index 08adc590f631..597af455a522 100644
>> --- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c
>> +++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c
>> @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
>>   #include <linux/string.h>
>>   #include <linux/slab.h>
>>   #include <linux/miscdevice.h>
>> +#include <linux/workqueue.h>
>>   
>>   #include <xen/xenbus.h>
>>   #include <xen/xen.h>
>> @@ -116,6 +117,8 @@ struct xenbus_file_priv {
>>   	wait_queue_head_t read_waitq;
>>   
>>   	struct kref kref;
>> +
>> +	struct work_struct wq;
>>   };
>>   
>>   /* Read out any raw xenbus messages queued up. */
>> @@ -300,14 +303,14 @@ static void watch_fired(struct xenbus_watch *watch,
>>   	mutex_unlock(&adap->dev_data->reply_mutex);
>>   }
>>   
>> -static void xenbus_file_free(struct kref *kref)
>> +static void xenbus_worker(struct work_struct *wq)
>>   {
>>   	struct xenbus_file_priv *u;
>>   	struct xenbus_transaction_holder *trans, *tmp;
>>   	struct watch_adapter *watch, *tmp_watch;
>>   	struct read_buffer *rb, *tmp_rb;
>>   
>> -	u = container_of(kref, struct xenbus_file_priv, kref);
>> +	u = container_of(wq, struct xenbus_file_priv, wq);
>>   
>>   	/*
>>   	 * No need for locking here because there are no other users,
>> @@ -333,6 +336,18 @@ static void xenbus_file_free(struct kref *kref)
>>   	kfree(u);
>>   }
>>   
>> +static void xenbus_file_free(struct kref *kref)
>> +{
>> +	struct xenbus_file_priv *u;
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * We might be called in xenbus_thread().
>> +	 * Use workqueue to avoid deadlock.
>> +	 */
>> +	u = container_of(kref, struct xenbus_file_priv, kref);
>> +	schedule_work(&u->wq);
>> +}
>> +
>>   static struct xenbus_transaction_holder *xenbus_get_transaction(
>>   	struct xenbus_file_priv *u, uint32_t tx_id)
>>   {
>> @@ -650,6 +665,7 @@ static int xenbus_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>>   	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&u->watches);
>>   	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&u->read_buffers);
>>   	init_waitqueue_head(&u->read_waitq);
>> +	INIT_WORK(&u->wq, xenbus_worker);
>>   
>>   	mutex_init(&u->reply_mutex);
>>   	mutex_init(&u->msgbuffer_mutex);
>> -- 
>> 2.16.4
>>
> 
> We have been having some crashes with an Ubuntu 5.0.0-31 kernel with
> this patch and thanks to the pstore fix "x86/xen: Return from panic
> notifier" we caught the oops below.  It seems to be in the same area of
> code as this patch but I'm unsure if it is directly related to this
> change or a secondary issue.  From the logs collected I can see this
> happened while there were several parallel `xl create` process running
> but so I have not been able to reproduce this in a test script but
> perhaps the trace will give some clues.
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> 
> <4>[53626.726580] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> <2>[53626.726583] kernel BUG at /build/slowfs/ubuntu-bionic/mm/slub.c:305!
> <4>[53626.739554] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> <4>[53626.751119] CPU: 0 PID: 38 Comm: xenwatch Tainted: P           OE     5.0.0-31-generic #33~18.04.1z1
> <4>[53626.763015] Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10/ProLiant DL380 Gen10, BIOS U30 02/02/2019
> <4>[53626.775100] RIP: e030:__slab_free+0x188/0x330
> <4>[53626.787708] Code: 90 48 89 c7 e8 89 5d da ff 66 90 f0 49 0f ba 2c 24 00 72 68 4d 3b 6c 24 20 74 11 49 0f ba 34 24 00 e8 8c 5d da ff 66 90 eb a9 <0f> 0b 49 3b 5c 24 28 75 e8 48 8b 45 88 49 89 4c 24 28 49 89 44 24
> <4>[53626.813409] RSP: e02b:ffffc900463f7c80 EFLAGS: 00010246
> <4>[53626.826151] RAX: ffff8881601c20a8 RBX: 00000000820001a3 RCX: ffff8881601c20a8
> <4>[53626.838346] RDX: ffff8881601c20a8 RSI: ffffea0005807080 RDI: ffff888251403c80
> <4>[53626.850414] RBP: ffffc900463f7d20 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffff81624f37
> <4>[53626.862624] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: f000000000000000 R12: ffffea0005807080
> <4>[53626.874710] R13: ffff8881601c20a8 R14: ffff888251403c80 R15: ffff8881601c20a8
> <4>[53626.886608] FS:  00007f67b9858c00(0000) GS:ffff888255a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> <4>[53626.898607] CS:  e030 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> <4>[53626.910735] CR2: 0000565111fc81a0 CR3: 0000000d5b4d2000 CR4: 0000000000040660
> <4>[53626.923103] Call Trace:
> <4>[53626.934868]  ? xs_talkv+0x138/0x2b0
> <4>[53626.946469]  ? xenbus_transaction_start+0x47/0x50
> <4>[53626.958450]  kfree+0x169/0x180
> <4>[53626.969983]  ? kfree+0x169/0x180
> <4>[53626.981443]  xenbus_transaction_start+0x47/0x50
> <4>[53626.993042]  __xenbus_switch_state.part.2+0x33/0x120
> <4>[53627.004445]  xenbus_switch_state+0x18/0x20
> <4>[53627.015851]  frontend_changed+0xde/0x5b0 [xen_blkback]
> <4>[53627.027411]  xenbus_otherend_changed+0x10a/0x120
> <4>[53627.038657]  frontend_changed+0x10/0x20
> <4>[53627.049830]  xenwatch_thread+0xc4/0x160
> <4>[53627.060987]  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
> <4>[53627.071858]  kthread+0x121/0x140
> <4>[53627.082558]  ? find_watch+0x40/0x40
> <4>[53627.093339]  ? kthread_park+0xb0/0xb0
> <4>[53627.103779]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

I can't make a connection between above patch and this crash, other than
happening with the same driver.


Juergen