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SubjectRe: Strange block/scsi/workqueue issue
Hello,

(cc'ing James. The original message is http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/11/175 )

Please read from the bottom up.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 03:56:03PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> [<ffffffff8167b8e5>] schedule_timeout+0x295/0x310
> [<ffffffff8167a650>] wait_for_common+0x120/0x170
> [<ffffffff8167a748>] wait_for_completion+0x18/0x20
> [<ffffffff810aba4c>] wait_on_cpu_work+0xec/0x100
> [<ffffffff810abb3b>] wait_on_work+0xdb/0x150
> [<ffffffff810abc33>] __cancel_work_timer+0x83/0x130
> [<ffffffff810abced>] cancel_delayed_work_sync+0xd/0x10

4. which in turn tries to sync cancel q->delay_work. Oops, deadlock.

> [<ffffffff813b24b4>] blk_sync_queue+0x24/0x50

3. and calls into blk_sync_queue()

> [<ffffffff813b24ef>] blk_cleanup_queue+0xf/0x60
> [<ffffffff81479a89>] scsi_free_queue+0x9/0x10
> [<ffffffff8147d30b>] scsi_device_dev_release_usercontext+0xeb/0x140
> [<ffffffff810ac826>] execute_in_process_context+0x86/0xa0

2. It triggers SCSI device release

> [<ffffffff8147d1f7>] scsi_device_dev_release+0x17/0x20
> [<ffffffff814609f2>] device_release+0x22/0x90
> [<ffffffff813c8165>] kobject_release+0x45/0x90
> [<ffffffff813c9767>] kref_put+0x37/0x70
> [<ffffffff813c8027>] kobject_put+0x27/0x60
> [<ffffffff81460822>] put_device+0x12/0x20
> [<ffffffff81478bd9>] scsi_request_fn+0xb9/0x4a0
> [<ffffffff813aff2a>] __blk_run_queue+0x6a/0x110
> [<ffffffff813b1f66>] blk_delay_work+0x26/0x40

1. Workqueue starting execution of q->delay_work and scsi_request_fn()
is run from there.

> [<ffffffff810aa9c7>] process_one_work+0x197/0x520
> [<ffffffff810acfec>] worker_thread+0x15c/0x330
> [<ffffffff810b1f16>] kthread+0xa6/0xb0
> [<ffffffff81687064>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10

So, q->delay_work ends up waiting for itself. I'd like to blame SCSI
(as it also fits my agenda to kill execute_in_process_context ;-) for
diving all the way into blk_cleanup_queue() directly from request_fn.

Does the following patch fix the problem?

Thanks.

Subject: scsi: don't use execute_in_process_context()

SCSI is the only subsystem which uses execute_in_process_context() and
its use is racy against module unload. ie. the reap work is not
properly flushed and could still be running after the scsi module is
unloaded.

Although execute_in_process_context() can be more efficient when the
caller already has a context, in this case, the call paths are quite
cold and the difference is practically meaningless. With commit
c8efcc25 (workqueue: allow chained queueing during destruction), the
race condition can easily be fixed by using a dedicated workqueue and
destroying it on module unload.

Create and use scsi_wq instead of execute_in_process_context().

* scsi_device->ew is replaced with release_work. scsi_target->ew is
replaced with reap_work.

* Both works are initialized with the respective release/reap function
during device/target init. scsi_target_reap_usercontext() is moved
upwards to avoid needing forward declaration.

* scsi_alloc_target() now explicitly flushes the reap_work of the
found dying target before putting it instead of depending on
flush_scheduled_work().

For more info on the issues, please read the following thread.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/62923

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
drivers/scsi/scsi.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 8 +++++---
include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 6 ++++--
4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

Index: work/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
===================================================================
--- work.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
+++ work/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
@@ -362,6 +362,16 @@ int scsi_is_target_device(const struct d
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_is_target_device);

+static void scsi_target_reap_usercontext(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct scsi_target *starget =
+ container_of(work, struct scsi_target, reap_work);
+
+ transport_remove_device(&starget->dev);
+ device_del(&starget->dev);
+ scsi_target_destroy(starget);
+}
+
static struct scsi_target *__scsi_find_target(struct device *parent,
int channel, uint id)
{
@@ -427,6 +437,7 @@ static struct scsi_target *scsi_alloc_ta
starget->state = STARGET_CREATED;
starget->scsi_level = SCSI_2;
starget->max_target_blocked = SCSI_DEFAULT_TARGET_BLOCKED;
+ INIT_WORK(&starget->reap_work, scsi_target_reap_usercontext);
retry:
spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags);

@@ -462,21 +473,11 @@ static struct scsi_target *scsi_alloc_ta
}
/* Unfortunately, we found a dying target; need to
* wait until it's dead before we can get a new one */
+ flush_work(&found_target->reap_work);
put_device(&found_target->dev);
- flush_scheduled_work();
goto retry;
}

-static void scsi_target_reap_usercontext(struct work_struct *work)
-{
- struct scsi_target *starget =
- container_of(work, struct scsi_target, ew.work);
-
- transport_remove_device(&starget->dev);
- device_del(&starget->dev);
- scsi_target_destroy(starget);
-}
-
/**
* scsi_target_reap - check to see if target is in use and destroy if not
* @starget: target to be checked
@@ -507,8 +508,7 @@ void scsi_target_reap(struct scsi_target
if (state == STARGET_CREATED)
scsi_target_destroy(starget);
else
- execute_in_process_context(scsi_target_reap_usercontext,
- &starget->ew);
+ queue_work(scsi_wq, &starget->reap_work);
}

/**
Index: work/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
===================================================================
--- work.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+++ work/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static void scsi_device_dev_release_user
struct list_head *this, *tmp;
unsigned long flags;

- sdev = container_of(work, struct scsi_device, ew.work);
+ sdev = container_of(work, struct scsi_device, release_work);

parent = sdev->sdev_gendev.parent;
starget = to_scsi_target(parent);
@@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ static void scsi_device_dev_release_user
static void scsi_device_dev_release(struct device *dev)
{
struct scsi_device *sdp = to_scsi_device(dev);
- execute_in_process_context(scsi_device_dev_release_usercontext,
- &sdp->ew);
+
+ queue_work(scsi_wq, &sdp->release_work);
}

static struct class sdev_class = {
@@ -1069,6 +1069,8 @@ void scsi_sysfs_device_initialize(struct
dev_set_name(&sdev->sdev_dev, "%d:%d:%d:%d",
sdev->host->host_no, sdev->channel, sdev->id, sdev->lun);
sdev->scsi_level = starget->scsi_level;
+ INIT_WORK(&sdev->release_work, scsi_device_dev_release_usercontext);
+
transport_setup_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags);
list_add_tail(&sdev->same_target_siblings, &starget->devices);
Index: work/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
===================================================================
--- work.orig/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
+++ work/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ struct scsi_device {
struct device sdev_gendev,
sdev_dev;

- struct execute_work ew; /* used to get process context on put */
+ struct work_struct release_work; /* for process context on put */

struct scsi_dh_data *scsi_dh_data;
enum scsi_device_state sdev_state;
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ struct scsi_target {
#define SCSI_DEFAULT_TARGET_BLOCKED 3

char scsi_level;
- struct execute_work ew;
+ struct work_struct reap_work;
enum scsi_target_state state;
void *hostdata; /* available to low-level driver */
unsigned long starget_data[0]; /* for the transport */
@@ -277,6 +277,8 @@ static inline struct scsi_target *scsi_t
#define starget_printk(prefix, starget, fmt, a...) \
dev_printk(prefix, &(starget)->dev, fmt, ##a)

+extern struct workqueue_struct *scsi_wq;
+
extern struct scsi_device *__scsi_add_device(struct Scsi_Host *,
uint, uint, uint, void *hostdata);
extern int scsi_add_device(struct Scsi_Host *host, uint channel,
Index: work/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
===================================================================
--- work.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
+++ work/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/scsi.h>

+/*
+ * Utility multithreaded workqueue for SCSI.
+ */
+struct workqueue_struct *scsi_wq;
+
static void scsi_done(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd);

/*
@@ -1306,11 +1311,14 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(scsi_logging_level, "a

static int __init init_scsi(void)
{
- int error;
+ int error = -ENOMEM;

+ scsi_wq = alloc_workqueue("scsi", 0, 0);
+ if (!scsi_wq)
+ return error;
error = scsi_init_queue();
if (error)
- return error;
+ goto cleanup_wq;
error = scsi_init_procfs();
if (error)
goto cleanup_queue;
@@ -1342,6 +1350,8 @@ cleanup_procfs:
scsi_exit_procfs();
cleanup_queue:
scsi_exit_queue();
+cleanup_wq:
+ destroy_workqueue(scsi_wq);
printk(KERN_ERR "SCSI subsystem failed to initialize, error = %d\n",
-error);
return error;
@@ -1356,6 +1366,7 @@ static void __exit exit_scsi(void)
scsi_exit_devinfo();
scsi_exit_procfs();
scsi_exit_queue();
+ destroy_workqueue(scsi_wq);
}

subsys_initcall(init_scsi);

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