[PATCH 1/2] nvme-tcp: fix possible hang caused during ctrl deletion

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Tue Sep 27 23:23:25 PDT 2022


When we delete a controller, we execute the following:
1. nvme_stop_ctrl() - stop some work elements that may be
	inflight or scheduled (specifically also .stop_ctrl
	which cancels ctrl error recovery work)
2. nvme_remove_namespaces() - which first flushes scan_work
	to avoid competing ns addition/removal
3. continue to teardown the controller

However, if err_work was scheduled to run in (1), it is designed to
cancel any inflight I/O, particularly I/O that is originating from ns
scan_work in (2), but because it is cancelled in .stop_ctrl(), we can
prevent forward progress of (2) as ns scanning is blocking on I/O
(that will never be cancelled).

The race is:
1. transport layer error observed -> err_work is scheduled
2. scan_work executes, discovers ns, generate I/O to it
3. nvme_ctop_ctrl() -> .stop_ctrl() -> cancel_work_sync(err_work)
   - err_work never executed
4. nvme_remove_namespaces() -> flush_work(scan_work)
--> deadlock, because scan_work is blocked on I/O that was supposed
to be cancelled by err_work, but was cancelled before executing (see
stack trace [1]).

Fix this by flushing err_work instead of cancelling it, to force it
to execute and cancel all inflight I/O.

[1]:
--
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __schedule+0x390/0x910
 ? scan_shadow_nodes+0x40/0x40
 schedule+0x55/0xe0
 io_schedule+0x16/0x40
 do_read_cache_page+0x55d/0x850
 ? __page_cache_alloc+0x90/0x90
 read_cache_page+0x12/0x20
 read_part_sector+0x3f/0x110
 amiga_partition+0x3d/0x3e0
 ? osf_partition+0x33/0x220
 ? put_partition+0x90/0x90
 bdev_disk_changed+0x1fe/0x4d0
 blkdev_get_whole+0x7b/0x90
 blkdev_get_by_dev+0xda/0x2d0
 device_add_disk+0x356/0x3b0
 nvme_mpath_set_live+0x13c/0x1a0 [nvme_core]
 ? nvme_parse_ana_log+0xae/0x1a0 [nvme_core]
 nvme_update_ns_ana_state+0x3a/0x40 [nvme_core]
 nvme_mpath_add_disk+0x120/0x160 [nvme_core]
 nvme_alloc_ns+0x594/0xa00 [nvme_core]
 nvme_validate_or_alloc_ns+0xb9/0x1a0 [nvme_core]
 ? __nvme_submit_sync_cmd+0x1d2/0x210 [nvme_core]
 nvme_scan_work+0x281/0x410 [nvme_core]
 process_one_work+0x1be/0x380
 worker_thread+0x37/0x3b0
 ? process_one_work+0x380/0x380
 kthread+0x12d/0x150
 ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
 </TASK>
INFO: task nvme:6725 blocked for more than 491 seconds.
      Not tainted 5.15.65-f0.el7.x86_64 #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:nvme            state:D
 stack:    0 pid: 6725 ppid:  1761 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __schedule+0x390/0x910
 ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10
 schedule+0x55/0xe0
 schedule_timeout+0x24b/0x2e0
 ? try_to_wake_up+0x358/0x510
 ? finish_task_switch+0x88/0x2c0
 wait_for_completion+0xa5/0x110
 __flush_work+0x144/0x210
 ? worker_attach_to_pool+0xc0/0xc0
 flush_work+0x10/0x20
 nvme_remove_namespaces+0x41/0xf0 [nvme_core]
 nvme_do_delete_ctrl+0x47/0x66 [nvme_core]
 nvme_sysfs_delete.cold.96+0x8/0xd [nvme_core]
 dev_attr_store+0x14/0x30
 sysfs_kf_write+0x38/0x50
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x146/0x1d0
 new_sync_write+0x114/0x1b0
 ? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0xe0/0x420
 vfs_write+0x18d/0x270
 ksys_write+0x61/0xe0
 __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20
 do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
--

Fixes: 3f2304f8c6d6 ("nvme-tcp: add NVMe over TCP host driver")
Reported-by: Jonathan Nicklin <jnicklin at blockbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
index d5871fd6f769..2524b5304bfb 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
@@ -2237,7 +2237,7 @@ static void nvme_reset_ctrl_work(struct work_struct *work)
 
 static void nvme_tcp_stop_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
 {
-	cancel_work_sync(&to_tcp_ctrl(ctrl)->err_work);
+	flush_work(&to_tcp_ctrl(ctrl)->err_work);
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&to_tcp_ctrl(ctrl)->connect_work);
 }
 
-- 
2.34.1




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