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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2018-06-28 08:26:09 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-28 20:16:44 +0200
commitd50d82faa0c964e31f7a946ba8aba7c715ca7ab0 (patch)
treea8d5f022d9d35f9117373caf760e3d8791f24621 /mm
parentRevert mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption BUG (diff)
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slub: fix failure when we delete and create a slab cache
In kernel 4.17 I removed some code from dm-bufio that did slab cache merging (commit 21bb13276768: "dm bufio: remove code that merges slab caches") - both slab and slub support merging caches with identical attributes, so dm-bufio now just calls kmem_cache_create and relies on implicit merging. This uncovered a bug in the slub subsystem - if we delete a cache and immediatelly create another cache with the same attributes, it fails because of duplicate filename in /sys/kernel/slab/. The slub subsystem offloads freeing the cache to a workqueue - and if we create the new cache before the workqueue runs, it complains because of duplicate filename in sysfs. This patch fixes the bug by moving the call of kobject_del from sysfs_slab_remove_workfn to shutdown_cache. kobject_del must be called while we hold slab_mutex - so that the sysfs entry is deleted before a cache with the same attributes could be created. Running device-mapper-test-suite with: dmtest run --suite thin-provisioning -n /commit_failure_causes_fallback/ triggered: Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 1572848, async page read device-mapper: thin: 253:1: metadata operation 'dm_pool_alloc_data_block' failed: error = -5 device-mapper: thin: 253:1: aborting current metadata transaction sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/kernel/slab/:a-0000144' CPU: 2 PID: 1037 Comm: kworker/u48:1 Not tainted 4.17.0.snitm+ #25 Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-1029P-WTR/X11DDW-L, BIOS 2.0a 12/06/2017 Workqueue: dm-thin do_worker [dm_thin_pool] Call Trace: dump_stack+0x5a/0x73 sysfs_warn_dup+0x58/0x70 sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x77/0x80 kobject_add_internal+0xba/0x2e0 kobject_init_and_add+0x70/0xb0 sysfs_slab_add+0xb1/0x250 __kmem_cache_create+0x116/0x150 create_cache+0xd9/0x1f0 kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x1c1/0x250 kmem_cache_create+0x18/0x20 dm_bufio_client_create+0x1ae/0x410 [dm_bufio] dm_block_manager_create+0x5e/0x90 [dm_persistent_data] __create_persistent_data_objects+0x38/0x940 [dm_thin_pool] dm_pool_abort_metadata+0x64/0x90 [dm_thin_pool] metadata_operation_failed+0x59/0x100 [dm_thin_pool] alloc_data_block.isra.53+0x86/0x180 [dm_thin_pool] process_cell+0x2a3/0x550 [dm_thin_pool] do_worker+0x28d/0x8f0 [dm_thin_pool] process_one_work+0x171/0x370 worker_thread+0x49/0x3f0 kthread+0xf8/0x130 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 kobject_add_internal failed for :a-0000144 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. kmem_cache_create(dm_bufio_buffer-16) failed with error -17 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.1806151817130.6333@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/slab_common.c4
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c7
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 890b1f04a03a..2296caf87bfb 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -567,10 +567,14 @@ static int shutdown_cache(struct kmem_cache *s)
list_del(&s->list);
if (s->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU) {
+#ifdef SLAB_SUPPORTS_SYSFS
+ sysfs_slab_unlink(s);
+#endif
list_add_tail(&s->list, &slab_caches_to_rcu_destroy);
schedule_work(&slab_caches_to_rcu_destroy_work);
} else {
#ifdef SLAB_SUPPORTS_SYSFS
+ sysfs_slab_unlink(s);
sysfs_slab_release(s);
#else
slab_kmem_cache_release(s);
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index a3b8467c14af..51258eff4178 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5667,7 +5667,6 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
kset_unregister(s->memcg_kset);
#endif
kobject_uevent(&s->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
- kobject_del(&s->kobj);
out:
kobject_put(&s->kobj);
}
@@ -5752,6 +5751,12 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s)
schedule_work(&s->kobj_remove_work);
}
+void sysfs_slab_unlink(struct kmem_cache *s)
+{
+ if (slab_state >= FULL)
+ kobject_del(&s->kobj);
+}
+
void sysfs_slab_release(struct kmem_cache *s)
{
if (slab_state >= FULL)