2020-11-17 09:05:26

by Haotian Li

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Subject: [Question] How to deal D state on request_wait_answer?

Hi
We recently detected a bug in virtiofs. Here, we created a
virtual machine as guest with Qemu and virtiofsd. We mounted
virtiofs on guest, for example /home/virtiofs. Then we killed
the virtiofsd in host and accessed /home/virtiofs in guest later.
This casued a process with D state which could not be killed.
The stack of the process as following:
wait_event_interruptible
[<0>] request_wait_answer+0x9d/0x210 [fuse]
[<0>] __fuse_request_send+0x75/0x80 [fuse]
[<0>] fuse_simple_request+0x164/0x270 [fuse]
[<0>] fuse_do_getattr+0xd5/0x2a0 [fuse]
[<0>] vfs_statx+0x89/0xe0
[<0>] __do_sys_newstat+0x39/0x70
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x55/0x1c0
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
We have no idea to deal with the bug. Here, we have some
question about that:
1. Why not use timeout mechanism?
2. If timeout mechanism is used, the process will enter
wait_event after wait_event_interruptible_timeout?