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->events may be 0, object->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->oob_table is
fscache_osm_lookup_oob).
The window for (2) is very small:
(A) object->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: [<0000000000000002>] 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:[<0000000000000002>] [<0000000000000002>] 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:
[<ffffffffa0363695>] ? fscache_object_work_func+0xa5/0x200 [fscache]
[<ffffffff8109d5db>] process_one_work+0x17b/0x470
[<ffffffff8109e4ac>] worker_thread+0x21c/0x400
[<ffffffff8109e290>] ? rescuer_thread+0x400/0x400
[<ffffffff810a5acf>] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
[<ffffffff810a5a00>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
[<ffffffff816460d8>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
[<ffffffff810a5a00>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy McNicoll <jeremymc@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Frank Sorenson <sorenson@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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