Deadlock on failure to read NVMe namespace

Tue Oct 19 08:04:42 PDT 2021

On 10/19/21 4:27 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
>>>> 481:~ # cat /proc/15761/stack
>>>> [<0>] nvme_mpath_clear_ctrl_paths+0x25/0x80 [nvme_core]
>>>> [<0>] nvme_remove_namespaces+0x31/0xf0 [nvme_core]
>>>> [<0>] nvme_do_delete_ctrl+0x4b/0x80 [nvme_core]
>>>> [<0>] nvme_sysfs_delete+0x42/0x60 [nvme_core]
>>>> [<0>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12f/0x1a0
>>>> [<0>] new_sync_write+0x122/0x1b0
>>>> [<0>] vfs_write+0x1eb/0x250
>>>> [<0>] ksys_write+0xa1/0xe0
>>>> [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80
>>>> [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
>>>> c481:~ # cat /proc/14965/stack
>>>> [<0>] do_read_cache_page+0x49b/0x790
>>>> [<0>] read_part_sector+0x39/0xe0
>>>> [<0>] read_lba+0xf9/0x1d0
>>>> [<0>] efi_partition+0xf1/0x7f0
>>>> [<0>] bdev_disk_changed+0x1ee/0x550
>>>> [<0>] blkdev_get_whole+0x81/0x90
>>>> [<0>] blkdev_get_by_dev+0x128/0x2e0
>>>> [<0>] device_add_disk+0x377/0x3c0
>>>> [<0>] nvme_mpath_set_live+0x130/0x1b0 [nvme_core]
>>>> [<0>] nvme_mpath_add_disk+0x150/0x160 [nvme_core]
>>>> [<0>] nvme_alloc_ns+0x417/0x950 [nvme_core]
>>>> [<0>] nvme_validate_or_alloc_ns+0xe9/0x1e0 [nvme_core]
>>>> [<0>] nvme_scan_work+0x168/0x310 [nvme_core]
>>>> [<0>] process_one_work+0x231/0x420
>>>> [<0>] worker_thread+0x2d/0x3f0
>>>> [<0>] kthread+0x11a/0x140
>>>> [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
>>>>
>>>> My theory here is that the partition scanning code just calls into 
>>>> the pagecache, which doesn't set a timeout for any I/O operation.
>>>> As this is done under the scan_mutex we cannot clear the active 
>>>> paths, and consequently we hang.
>>>
>>> But the controller removal should have cancelled all inflight
>>> commands...
>>>
>>> Maybe we're missing unfreeze? Hannes, can you try this one?
>>> -- 
>>> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
>>> index e29c47114739..783fde36d2ba 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
>>> @@ -1974,8 +1974,11 @@ static void nvme_tcp_teardown_io_queues(struct 
>>> nvme_ctrl *ctrl,
>>>          nvme_sync_io_queues(ctrl);
>>>          nvme_tcp_stop_io_queues(ctrl);
>>>          nvme_cancel_tagset(ctrl);
>>> -       if (remove)
>>> +       if (remove) {
>>>                  nvme_start_queues(ctrl);
>>> +               nvme_wait_freeze_timeout(ctrl, NVME_IO_TIMEOUT);
>>> +               nvme_unfreeze(ctrl);
>>> +       }
>>>          nvme_tcp_destroy_io_queues(ctrl, remove);
>>>   }
>>> -- 
>> Nope. Same problem.
>>
>> I managed to make the problem go away (for some definitions of 'go 
>> away') with this patch:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c 
>> b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
>> index fb96e900dd3a..30d1154eb611 100644
>> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
>> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
>> @@ -141,12 +141,12 @@ void nvme_mpath_clear_ctrl_paths(struct 
>> nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
>>   {
>>          struct nvme_ns *ns;
>>
>> -       mutex_lock(&ctrl->scan_lock);
>>          down_read(&ctrl->namespaces_rwsem);
>>          list_for_each_entry(ns, &ctrl->namespaces, list)
>>                  if (nvme_mpath_clear_current_path(ns))
>>                          kblockd_schedule_work(&ns->head->requeue_work);
>>          up_read(&ctrl->namespaces_rwsem);
>> +       mutex_lock(&ctrl->scan_lock);
>>          mutex_unlock(&ctrl->scan_lock);
>>   }
>>
>> But I'd be the first to agree that this really is hackish.
> 
> Yea, that doesn't solve anything.
> 
> I think this sequence is familiar and was addressed by a fix from Anton
> (CC'd) which still has some pending review comments.
> 
> Can you lookup and try:
> [PATCH] nvme/mpath: fix hang when disk goes live over reconnect

I actually had looked at it, but then decided it's (trying) to address a 
different issue.

Thing is, I'll see it being stuck even _before_ disconnect happens; 
we're stuck with the _initial_ scan:

[ 3920.880552]  device_add_disk+0x377/0x3c0
[ 3920.880558]  nvme_mpath_set_live+0x130/0x1b0 [nvme_core]
[ 3920.880574]  nvme_mpath_add_disk+0x150/0x160 [nvme_core]
[ 3920.880588]  ? device_add_disk+0x27d/0x3c0
[ 3920.880593]  nvme_alloc_ns+0x417/0x950 [nvme_core]
[ 3920.880606]  nvme_validate_or_alloc_ns+0xe9/0x1e0 [nvme_core]
[ 3920.880618]  ? __nvme_submit_sync_cmd+0x19b/0x210 [nvme_core]
[ 3920.880631]  nvme_scan_work+0x168/0x310 [nvme_core]

and can't make progress as the I/O is _NOT_ failed, but rather causing a 
reconnect:
[ 1364.442390] nvme nvme0: request 0x0 genctr mismatch (got 0x0 expected 
0x2)
[ 1364.442408] nvme nvme0: got bad c2hdata.command_id 0x0 on queue 2
[ 1364.442411] nvme nvme0: receive failed:  -2
[ 1364.442414] nvme nvme0: starting error recovery
[ 1364.442502] block nvme0n1: no usable path - requeuing I/O

so we don't have an usable path, and will requeue I/O.
But upon reconnect we will retry _the same_ I/O, and get into the same 
state.

So the I/O will be stuck until disconnect happens.
But disconnect does a
nvme_do_dele te_ctrl()
-> nvme_remove_namespaces()
    -> nvme_mpath_clear_ctrl_paths()
       -> mutex_lock(&scan_mutex)

and hangs.

Everything would be solved if we had _aborted_ the invalid I/O instead 
of forcing a reconnect; which, incidentally, is a far better way to 
handle TCP PDU sequence errors than the current way of dropping the 
connection. Which would only help if it were a transport artifact, but 
I've yet to see a fabric which eats individual bits of a frame;
a programming error far more likely, in which case an I/O error would be 
a far better response.

But I guess I'll need to raise it at the fmds call...

Cheers,

Hannes
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