When we delete a controller, we execute the following:
1. nvme_stop_ctrl() - stop some work elements that may be
inflight or scheduled (specifically also .stop_ctrl
which cancels ctrl error recovery work)
2. nvme_remove_namespaces() - which first flushes scan_work
to avoid competing ns addition/removal
3. continue to teardown the controller
However, if err_work was scheduled to run in (1), it is designed to
cancel any inflight I/O, particularly I/O that is originating from ns
scan_work in (2), but because it is cancelled in .stop_ctrl(), we can
prevent forward progress of (2) as ns scanning is blocking on I/O
(that will never be cancelled).
The race is:
1. transport layer error observed -> err_work is scheduled
2. scan_work executes, discovers ns, generate I/O to it
3. nvme_ctop_ctrl() -> .stop_ctrl() -> cancel_work_sync(err_work)
- err_work never executed
4. nvme_remove_namespaces() -> flush_work(scan_work)
--> deadlock, because scan_work is blocked on I/O that was supposed
to be cancelled by err_work, but was cancelled before executing (see
stack trace [1]).
Fix this by flushing err_work instead of cancelling it, to force it
to execute and cancel all inflight I/O.
[1]:
--
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x390/0x910
? scan_shadow_nodes+0x40/0x40
schedule+0x55/0xe0
io_schedule+0x16/0x40
do_read_cache_page+0x55d/0x850
? __page_cache_alloc+0x90/0x90
read_cache_page+0x12/0x20
read_part_sector+0x3f/0x110
amiga_partition+0x3d/0x3e0
? osf_partition+0x33/0x220
? put_partition+0x90/0x90
bdev_disk_changed+0x1fe/0x4d0
blkdev_get_whole+0x7b/0x90
blkdev_get_by_dev+0xda/0x2d0
device_add_disk+0x356/0x3b0
nvme_mpath_set_live+0x13c/0x1a0 [nvme_core]
? nvme_parse_ana_log+0xae/0x1a0 [nvme_core]
nvme_update_ns_ana_state+0x3a/0x40 [nvme_core]
nvme_mpath_add_disk+0x120/0x160 [nvme_core]
nvme_alloc_ns+0x594/0xa00 [nvme_core]
nvme_validate_or_alloc_ns+0xb9/0x1a0 [nvme_core]
? __nvme_submit_sync_cmd+0x1d2/0x210 [nvme_core]
nvme_scan_work+0x281/0x410 [nvme_core]
process_one_work+0x1be/0x380
worker_thread+0x37/0x3b0
? process_one_work+0x380/0x380
kthread+0x12d/0x150
? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>
INFO: task nvme:6725 blocked for more than 491 seconds.
Not tainted 5.15.65-f0.el7.x86_64 #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:nvme state:D
stack: 0 pid: 6725 ppid: 1761 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x390/0x910
? sched_clock+0x9/0x10
schedule+0x55/0xe0
schedule_timeout+0x24b/0x2e0
? try_to_wake_up+0x358/0x510
? finish_task_switch+0x88/0x2c0
wait_for_completion+0xa5/0x110
__flush_work+0x144/0x210
? worker_attach_to_pool+0xc0/0xc0
flush_work+0x10/0x20
nvme_remove_namespaces+0x41/0xf0 [nvme_core]
nvme_do_delete_ctrl+0x47/0x66 [nvme_core]
nvme_sysfs_delete.cold.96+0x8/0xd [nvme_core]
dev_attr_store+0x14/0x30
sysfs_kf_write+0x38/0x50
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x146/0x1d0
new_sync_write+0x114/0x1b0
? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0xe0/0x420
vfs_write+0x18d/0x270
ksys_write+0x61/0xe0
__x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
--
Fixes: 3f2304f8c6d6 ("nvme-tcp: add NVMe over TCP host driver")
Reported-by: Jonathan Nicklin <jnicklin@blockbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Tested-by: Jonathan Nicklin <jnicklin@blockbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
static void nvme_tcp_stop_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
{
- cancel_work_sync(&to_tcp_ctrl(ctrl)->err_work);
+ flush_work(&to_tcp_ctrl(ctrl)->err_work);
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&to_tcp_ctrl(ctrl)->connect_work);
}