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xfs: don't nest transactions when scanning for eofblocks
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Brian Foster reported a lockdep warning on xfs/167:

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WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
5.11.0-rc4 #35 Tainted: G        W I
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fsstress/17733 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff8e0fd1d90650 (sb_internal){++++}-{0:0}, at: xfs_free_eofblocks+0x104/0x1d0 [xfs]

but task is already holding lock:
ffff8e0fd1d90650 (sb_internal){++++}-{0:0}, at: xfs_trans_alloc_inode+0x5f/0x160 [xfs]

stack backtrace:
CPU: 38 PID: 17733 Comm: fsstress Tainted: G        W I       5.11.0-rc4 #35
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/01KPX8, BIOS 1.6.11 11/20/2018
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x8b/0xb0
 __lock_acquire.cold+0x159/0x2ab
 lock_acquire+0x116/0x370
 xfs_trans_alloc+0x1ad/0x310 [xfs]
 xfs_free_eofblocks+0x104/0x1d0 [xfs]
 xfs_blockgc_scan_inode+0x24/0x60 [xfs]
 xfs_inode_walk_ag+0x202/0x4b0 [xfs]
 xfs_inode_walk+0x66/0xc0 [xfs]
 xfs_trans_alloc+0x160/0x310 [xfs]
 xfs_trans_alloc_inode+0x5f/0x160 [xfs]
 xfs_alloc_file_space+0x105/0x300 [xfs]
 xfs_file_fallocate+0x270/0x460 [xfs]
 vfs_fallocate+0x14d/0x3d0
 __x64_sys_fallocate+0x3e/0x70
 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The cause of this is the new code that spurs a scan to garbage collect
speculative preallocations if we fail to reserve enough blocks while
allocating a transaction.  While the warning itself is a fairly benign
lockdep complaint, it does expose a potential livelock if the rwsem
behavior ever changes with regards to nesting read locks when someone's
waiting for a write lock.

Fix this by freeing the transaction and jumping back to xfs_trans_alloc
like this patch in the V4 submission[1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/161142798066.2171939.9311024588681972086.stgit@magnolia/

Fixes: a1a7d05 ("xfs: flush speculative space allocations when we run out of space")
Reported-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Darrick J. Wong committed Feb 25, 2021
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13 changes: 10 additions & 3 deletions fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -260,13 +260,15 @@ xfs_trans_alloc(
struct xfs_trans **tpp)
{
struct xfs_trans *tp;
bool want_retry = true;
int error;

/*
* Allocate the handle before we do our freeze accounting and setting up
* GFP_NOFS allocation context so that we avoid lockdep false positives
* by doing GFP_KERNEL allocations inside sb_start_intwrite().
*/
retry:
tp = kmem_cache_zalloc(xfs_trans_zone, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
if (!(flags & XFS_TRANS_NO_WRITECOUNT))
sb_start_intwrite(mp->m_super);
Expand All @@ -289,16 +291,21 @@ xfs_trans_alloc(
tp->t_firstblock = NULLFSBLOCK;

error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, resp, blocks, rtextents);
if (error == -ENOSPC) {
if (error == -ENOSPC && want_retry) {
xfs_trans_cancel(tp);

/*
* We weren't able to reserve enough space for the transaction.
* Flush the other speculative space allocations to free space.
* Do not perform a synchronous scan because callers can hold
* other locks.
*/
error = xfs_blockgc_free_space(mp, NULL);
if (!error)
error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, resp, blocks, rtextents);
if (error)
return error;

want_retry = false;
goto retry;
}
if (error) {
xfs_trans_cancel(tp);
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