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Fix zrele race in zrele_async that can cause hang 

There is a race condition in zfs_zrele_async when we are checking if 
we would be the one to evict an inode. This can lead to a txg sync 
deadlock.

Instead of calling into iput directly, we attempt to perform the atomic 
decrement ourselves, unless that would set the i_count value to zero. 
In that case, we dispatch a call to iput to run later, to prevent a 
deadlock from occurring.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Dagnelie <pcd@delphix.com>
Closes #11527 
Closes #11530
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Paul Dagnelie 2021-01-27 21:29:58 -08:00 committed by Brian Behlendorf
parent 5bc4c39d70
commit 43eaef6de8
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module/os/linux/zfs/zfs_vnops_os.c
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@ -87,15 +87,18 @@
* must be checked with ZFS_VERIFY_ZP(zp). Both of these macros
* can return EIO from the calling function.
*
* (2) zrele() should always be the last thing except for zil_commit()
* (if necessary) and ZFS_EXIT(). This is for 3 reasons:
* First, if it's the last reference, the vnode/znode
* can be freed, so the zp may point to freed memory. Second, the last
* reference will call zfs_zinactive(), which may induce a lot of work --
* pushing cached pages (which acquires range locks) and syncing out
* cached atime changes. Third, zfs_zinactive() may require a new tx,
* which could deadlock the system if you were already holding one.
* If you must call zrele() within a tx then use zfs_zrele_async().
* (2) zrele() should always be the last thing except for zil_commit() (if
* necessary) and ZFS_EXIT(). This is for 3 reasons: First, if it's the
* last reference, the vnode/znode can be freed, so the zp may point to
* freed memory. Second, the last reference will call zfs_zinactive(),
* which may induce a lot of work -- pushing cached pages (which acquires
* range locks) and syncing out cached atime changes. Third,
* zfs_zinactive() may require a new tx, which could deadlock the system
* if you were already holding one. This deadlock occurs because the tx
* currently being operated on prevents a txg from syncing, which
* prevents the new tx from progressing, resulting in a deadlock. If you
* must call zrele() within a tx, use zfs_zrele_async(). Note that iput()
* is a synonym for zrele().
*
* (3) All range locks must be grabbed before calling dmu_tx_assign(),
* as they can span dmu_tx_assign() calls.
@ -476,11 +479,18 @@ zfs_zrele_async(znode_t *zp)
ASSERT(atomic_read(&ip->i_count) > 0);
ASSERT(os != NULL);
if (atomic_read(&ip->i_count) == 1)
/*
* If decrementing the count would put us at 0, we can't do it inline
* here, because that would be synchronous. Instead, dispatch an iput
* to run later.
*
* For more information on the dangers of a synchronous iput, see the
* header comment of this file.
*/
if (!atomic_add_unless(&ip->i_count, -1, 1)) {
VERIFY(taskq_dispatch(dsl_pool_zrele_taskq(dmu_objset_pool(os)),
(task_func_t *)iput, ip, TQ_SLEEP) != TASKQID_INVALID);
else
zrele(zp);
}
}
/* ARGSUSED */