[PATCH] nvme-tcp: Fix possible circular locking when deleting a controller under memory pressure
Sagi Grimberg
sagi at grimberg.me
Sun Oct 23 01:04:43 PDT 2022
When destroying a queue, when calling sock_release, the network stack
might need to allocate an skb to send a FIN/RST. When that happens
during memory pressure, there is a need to reclaim memory, which
in turn may ask the nvme-tcp device to write out dirty pages, however
this is not possible due to a ctrl teardown that is going on.
Set PF_MEMALLOC to the task that releases the socket to grant access
to PF_MEMALLOC reserves. In addition, do the same for the nvme-tcp
thread as this may also originate from the swap itself and should
be more resilient to memory pressure situations.
This fixes the following lockdep complaint:
--
======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.0.0-rc2+ #25 Tainted: G W
------------------------------------------------------
kswapd0/92 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff888114003240 (sk_lock-AF_INET-NVME){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: tcp_sendpage+0x23/0xa0
but task is already holding lock:
ffffffff97e95ca0 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: balance_pgdat+0x987/0x10d0
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
-> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}:
fs_reclaim_acquire+0x11e/0x160
kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x44/0x530
__alloc_skb+0x158/0x230
tcp_send_active_reset+0x7e/0x730
tcp_disconnect+0x1272/0x1ae0
__tcp_close+0x707/0xd90
tcp_close+0x26/0x80
inet_release+0xfa/0x220
sock_release+0x85/0x1a0
nvme_tcp_free_queue+0x1fd/0x470 [nvme_tcp]
nvme_do_delete_ctrl+0x130/0x13d [nvme_core]
nvme_sysfs_delete.cold+0x8/0xd [nvme_core]
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x356/0x530
vfs_write+0x4e8/0xce0
ksys_write+0xfd/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
-> #0 (sk_lock-AF_INET-NVME){+.+.}-{0:0}:
__lock_acquire+0x2a0c/0x5690
lock_acquire+0x18e/0x4f0
lock_sock_nested+0x37/0xc0
tcp_sendpage+0x23/0xa0
inet_sendpage+0xad/0x120
kernel_sendpage+0x156/0x440
nvme_tcp_try_send+0x48a/0x2630 [nvme_tcp]
nvme_tcp_queue_rq+0xefb/0x17e0 [nvme_tcp]
__blk_mq_try_issue_directly+0x452/0x660
blk_mq_plug_issue_direct.constprop.0+0x207/0x700
blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x6f5/0xc70
__blk_flush_plug+0x264/0x410
blk_finish_plug+0x4b/0xa0
shrink_lruvec+0x1263/0x1ea0
shrink_node+0x736/0x1a80
balance_pgdat+0x740/0x10d0
kswapd+0x5f2/0xaf0
kthread+0x256/0x2f0
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(fs_reclaim);
lock(sk_lock-AF_INET-NVME);
lock(fs_reclaim);
lock(sk_lock-AF_INET-NVME);
*** DEADLOCK ***
3 locks held by kswapd0/92:
#0: ffffffff97e95ca0 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: balance_pgdat+0x987/0x10d0
#1: ffff88811f21b0b0 (q->srcu){....}-{0:0}, at: blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x6b3/0xc70
#2: ffff888170b11470 (&queue->send_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: nvme_tcp_queue_rq+0xeb9/0x17e0 [nvme_tcp]
Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me>
---
drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
index 4f5dcfe5357f..5bae8914c861 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
@@ -1141,6 +1141,7 @@ static int nvme_tcp_try_send_ddgst(struct nvme_tcp_request *req)
static int nvme_tcp_try_send(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue)
{
struct nvme_tcp_request *req;
+ unsigned int noreclaim_flag;
int ret = 1;
if (!queue->request) {
@@ -1150,12 +1151,13 @@ static int nvme_tcp_try_send(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue)
}
req = queue->request;
+ noreclaim_flag = memalloc_noreclaim_save();
if (req->state == NVME_TCP_SEND_CMD_PDU) {
ret = nvme_tcp_try_send_cmd_pdu(req);
if (ret <= 0)
goto done;
if (!nvme_tcp_has_inline_data(req))
- return ret;
+ goto out;
}
if (req->state == NVME_TCP_SEND_H2C_PDU) {
@@ -1181,6 +1183,8 @@ static int nvme_tcp_try_send(struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue)
nvme_tcp_fail_request(queue->request);
nvme_tcp_done_send_req(queue);
}
+out:
+ memalloc_noreclaim_restore(noreclaim_flag);
return ret;
}
@@ -1296,6 +1300,7 @@ static void nvme_tcp_free_queue(struct nvme_ctrl *nctrl, int qid)
struct page *page;
struct nvme_tcp_ctrl *ctrl = to_tcp_ctrl(nctrl);
struct nvme_tcp_queue *queue = &ctrl->queues[qid];
+ unsigned int noreclaim_flag;
if (!test_and_clear_bit(NVME_TCP_Q_ALLOCATED, &queue->flags))
return;
@@ -1308,7 +1313,11 @@ static void nvme_tcp_free_queue(struct nvme_ctrl *nctrl, int qid)
__page_frag_cache_drain(page, queue->pf_cache.pagecnt_bias);
queue->pf_cache.va = NULL;
}
+
+ noreclaim_flag = memalloc_noreclaim_save();
sock_release(queue->sock);
+ memalloc_noreclaim_restore(noreclaim_flag);
+
kfree(queue->pdu);
mutex_destroy(&queue->send_mutex);
mutex_destroy(&queue->queue_lock);
--
2.34.1
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