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From:   Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com>
To:     "Yan\, Zheng" <ukernel@gmail.com>
Cc:     "Yan\, Zheng" <zyan@redhat.com>, Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>,
        Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ceph: Fix a memory leak in ci->i_head_snapc
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Date:   Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:22:25 +0000
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        (Zheng Yan's message of "Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:42:51 +0800")
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"Yan, Zheng" <ukernel@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:33 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> "Yan, Zheng" <ukernel@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 7:13 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm occasionally seeing a kmemleak warning in xfstest generic/013:
>> >>
>> >> unreferenced object 0xffff8881fccca940 (size 32):
>> >>   comm "kworker/0:1", pid 12, jiffies 4295005883 (age 130.648s)
>> >>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>> >>     01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>> >>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>> >>   backtrace:
>> >>     [<00000000d741a1ea>] build_snap_context+0x5b/0x2a0
>> >>     [<0000000021a00533>] rebuild_snap_realms+0x27/0x90
>> >>     [<00000000ac538600>] rebuild_snap_realms+0x42/0x90
>> >>     [<000000000e955fac>] ceph_update_snap_trace+0x2ee/0x610
>> >>     [<00000000a9550416>] ceph_handle_snap+0x317/0x5f3
>> >>     [<00000000fc287b83>] dispatch+0x362/0x176c
>> >>     [<00000000a312c741>] ceph_con_workfn+0x9ce/0x2cf0
>> >>     [<000000004168e3a9>] process_one_work+0x1d4/0x400
>> >>     [<000000002188e9e7>] worker_thread+0x2d/0x3c0
>> >>     [<00000000b593e4b3>] kthread+0x112/0x130
>> >>     [<00000000a8587dca>] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
>> >>     [<00000000ba1c9c1d>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>> >>
>> >> It looks like it is possible that we miss a flush_ack from the MDS when,
>> >> for example, umounting the filesystem.  In that case, we can simply drop
>> >> the reference to the ceph_snap_context obtained in ceph_queue_cap_snap().
>> >>
>> >> Link: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/38224
>> >> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> >> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  fs/ceph/caps.c | 7 +++++++
>> >>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/fs/ceph/caps.c b/fs/ceph/caps.c
>> >> index 36a8dc699448..208f4dc6f574 100644
>> >> --- a/fs/ceph/caps.c
>> >> +++ b/fs/ceph/caps.c
>> >> @@ -1054,6 +1054,7 @@ int ceph_is_any_caps(struct inode *inode)
>> >>  static void drop_inode_snap_realm(struct ceph_inode_info *ci)
>> >>  {
>> >>         struct ceph_snap_realm *realm = ci->i_snap_realm;
>> >> +
>> >>         spin_lock(&realm->inodes_with_caps_lock);
>> >>         list_del_init(&ci->i_snap_realm_item);
>> >>         ci->i_snap_realm_counter++;
>> >> @@ -1063,6 +1064,12 @@ static void drop_inode_snap_realm(struct ceph_inode_info *ci)
>> >>         spin_unlock(&realm->inodes_with_caps_lock);
>> >>         ceph_put_snap_realm(ceph_sb_to_client(ci->vfs_inode.i_sb)->mdsc,
>> >>                             realm);
>> >> +       /*
>> >> +        * ci->i_head_snapc should be NULL, but we may still be waiting for a
>> >> +        * flush_ack from the MDS.  In that case, we still hold a ref for the
>> >> +        * ceph_snap_context and we need to drop it.
>> >> +        */
>> >> +       ceph_put_snap_context(ci->i_head_snapc);
>> >>  }
>> >>
>> >>  /*
>> >
>> > This does not seem right.  i_head_snapc is cleared when
>> > (ci->i_wrbuffer_ref_head == 0 && ci->i_dirty_caps == 0 &&
>> > ci->i_flushing_caps == 0) . Nothing do with dropping ci->i_snap_realm.
>> > Did you see 'reconnect denied' during the test? If you did, the fix
>> > should be in iterate_session_caps()
>> >
>>
>> No, I didn't saw any 'reconnect denied' in the test.  The test actually
>> seems to execute fine, except from the memory leak.
>>
>> It's very difficult to reproduce this issue, but last time I managed to
>> get this memory leak to trigger I actually had some debugging code in
>> drop_inode_snap_realm, something like:
>>
>>   if (ci->i_head_snapc)
>>         printk("i_head_snapc: 0x%px\n", ci->i_head_snapc);
>
> please add code that prints i_wrbuffer_ref_head, i_dirty_caps,
> i_flushing_caps. and try reproducing it again.
>

Ok, it took me a few hours, but I managed to reproduce the bug, with
those extra printks.  All those values are set to 0 when the bug
triggers (and i_head_snapc != NULL).

Cheers,
-- 
Luis


>
>>
>> This printk was only executed when the bug triggered (during a
>> filesystem umount) and the address shown was the same as in the kmemleak
>> warning.
>>
>> After spending some time looking, I assumed this to be a missing call to
>> handle_cap_flush_ack, which would do the i_head_snapc cleanup.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Luis
>