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Bug 591894 - Backport of fscache/cachefiles patches upstream since 2.6.32
Summary: Backport of fscache/cachefiles patches upstream since 2.6.32
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: David Howells
QA Contact: Boris Ranto
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 534150
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-13 12:49 UTC by David Howells
Modified: 2010-11-15 14:23 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-11-15 14:23:58 UTC
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Description David Howells 2010-05-13 12:49:32 UTC
Backport fscache/cachefiles patches from upstream that have gone since the RHEL-6
diverged from the 2.6.32 vanilla kernel.

commit 7fd6c3244d1c2c15962a0d32ccfed2433b2db721
Author: David Howells <dhowells>
Date:   Thu May 13 13:02:17 2010 +0100

    CacheFiles: Fix error handling in cachefiles_determine_cache_security()
    
    cachefiles_determine_cache_security() is expected to return with a
    security override in place.  However, if set_create_files_as() fails, we
    fail to do this.  In this case, we should just reinstate the security
    override that was set by the caller.
    
    Furthermore, if set_create_files_as() fails, we should dispose of the
    new credentials we were in the process of creating.
    
    Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds>

commit ec7bf0d99e6897ae669dd255f89710efd706dc92
Author: David Howells <dhowells>
Date:   Thu May 13 13:01:56 2010 +0100

    CacheFiles: Fix occasional EIO on call to vfs_unlink()
    
    Fix an occasional EIO returned by a call to vfs_unlink():
    
    	[ 4868.465413] CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
    	[ 4868.465444] FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
    	[ 4947.320011] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 unregistering
    	[ 4947.320041] FS-Cache: Withdrawing cache "mycache"
    	[ 5127.348683] FS-Cache: Cache "mycache" added (type cachefiles)
    	[ 5127.348716] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 registered
    	[ 7076.871081] CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
    	[ 7076.871130] FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
    	[ 7116.780891] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 unregistering
    	[ 7116.780937] FS-Cache: Withdrawing cache "mycache"
    	[ 7296.813394] FS-Cache: Cache "mycache" added (type cachefiles)
    	[ 7296.813432] CacheFiles: File cache on md3 registered
    
    What happens is this:
    
     (1) A cached NFS file is seen to have become out of date, so NFS retires the
         object and immediately acquires a new object with the same key.
    
     (2) Retirement of the old object is done asynchronously - so the lookup/create
         to generate the new object may be done first.
    
         This can be a problem as the old object and the new object must exist at
         the same point in the backing filesystem (i.e. they must have the same
         pathname).
    
     (3) The lookup for the new object sees that a backing file already exists,
         checks to see whether it is valid and sees that it isn't.  It then deletes
         that file and creates a new one on disk.
    
     (4) The retirement phase for the old file is then performed.  It tries to
         delete the dentry it has, but ext4_unlink() returns -EIO because the inode
         attached to that dentry no longer matches the inode number associated with
         the filename in the parent directory.
    
    The trace below shows this quite well.
    
    	[md5sum] ==> __fscache_relinquish_cookie(ffff88002d12fb58{NFS.fh,ffff88002ce62100},1)
    	[md5sum] ==> __fscache_acquire_cookie({NFS.server},{NFS.fh},ffff88002ce62100)
    
    NFS has retired the old cookie and asked for a new one.
    
    	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_ACTIVE,24})
    	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_DYING]
    	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_INIT,0})
    	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_LOOKING_UP]
    	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_DYING,24})
    	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_RECYCLING]
    
    The old object (OBJ52) is going through the terminal states to get rid of it,
    whilst the new object - (OBJ53) - is coming into being.
    
    	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_LOOKING_UP,0})
    	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_walk_to_object({ffff88003029d8b8},OBJ53,@68,)
    	[kslowd] lookup '@68'
    	[kslowd] next -> ffff88002ce41bd0 positive
    	[kslowd] advance
    	[kslowd] lookup 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
    	[kslowd] next -> ffff8800369faac8 positive
    
    The new object has looked up the subdir in which the file would be in (getting
    dentry ffff88002ce41bd0) and then looked up the file itself (getting dentry
    ffff8800369faac8).
    
    	[kslowd] validate 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
    	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_bury_object(,'@68','Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA')
    	[kslowd] remove ffff8800369faac8 from ffff88002ce41bd0
    	[kslowd] unlink stale object
    	[kslowd] <== cachefiles_bury_object() = 0
    
    It then checks the file's xattrs to see if it's valid.  NFS says that the
    auxiliary data indicate the file is out of date (obvious to us - that's why NFS
    ditched the old version and got a new one).  CacheFiles then deletes the old
    file (dentry ffff8800369faac8).
    
    	[kslowd] redo lookup
    	[kslowd] lookup 'Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA'
    	[kslowd] next -> ffff88002cd94288 negative
    	[kslowd] create -> ffff88002cd94288{ffff88002cdaf238{ino=148247}}
    
    CacheFiles then redoes the lookup and gets a negative result in a new dentry
    (ffff88002cd94288) which it then creates a file for.
    
    	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_mark_object_active(,OBJ53)
    	[kslowd] <== cachefiles_mark_object_active() = 0
    	[kslowd] === OBTAINED_OBJECT ===
    	[kslowd] <== cachefiles_walk_to_object() = 0 [148247]
    	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_AVAILABLE]
    
    The new object is then marked active and the state machine moves to the
    available state - at which point NFS can start filling the object.
    
    	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ52,OBJECT_RECYCLING,20})
    	[kslowd] ==> fscache_release_object()
    	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_drop_object({OBJ52,2})
    	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_delete_object(,OBJ52{ffff8800369faac8})
    
    The old object, meanwhile, goes on with being retired.  If allocation occurs
    first, cachefiles_delete_object() has to wait for dir->d_inode->i_mutex to
    become available before it can continue.
    
    	[kslowd] ==> cachefiles_bury_object(,'@68','Es0g00og0_Nd_XCYe3BOzvXrsBLMlN6aw16M1htaA')
    	[kslowd] remove ffff8800369faac8 from ffff88002ce41bd0
    	[kslowd] unlink stale object
    	EXT4-fs warning (device sda6): ext4_unlink: Inode number mismatch in unlink (148247!=148193)
    	CacheFiles: I/O Error: Unlink failed
    	FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error
    
    CacheFiles then tries to delete the file for the old object, but the dentry it
    has (ffff8800369faac8) no longer points to a valid inode for that directory
    entry, and so ext4_unlink() returns -EIO when de->inode does not match i_ino.
    
    	[kslowd] <== cachefiles_bury_object() = -5
    	[kslowd] <== cachefiles_delete_object() = -5
    	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_DEAD]
    	[kslowd] ==> fscache_object_state_machine({OBJ53,OBJECT_AVAILABLE,0})
    	[kslowd] <== fscache_object_state_machine() [->OBJECT_ACTIVE]
    
    (Note that the above trace includes extra information beyond that produced by
    the upstream code).
    
    The fix is to note when an object that is being retired has had its object
    deleted preemptively by a replacement object that is being created, and to
    skip the second removal attempt in such a case.
    
    Reported-by: Greg M <gregm.au>
    Reported-by: Mark Moseley <moseleymark>
    Reported-by: Romain DEGEZ <romain.degez>
    Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds>

commit c0a069550c1252274c8f91b6aaf7fea4549ed507
Author: David Howells <dhowells>
Date:   Thu May 13 13:01:35 2010 +0100

    fs-cache: order the debugfs stats correctly
    
    Order the debugfs statistics correctly.  The values displayed through a
    seq_printf() statement should be in the same order as the names in the
    format string.
    
    In the 'Lookups' line, objects created ('crt=') and lookups timed out
    ('tmo=') have their values transposed.
    
    Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds>

commit 99a8d27a39748fea7b324221ab39c6ef91d18a38
Author: David Howells <dhowells>
Date:   Thu May 13 13:00:29 2010 +0100

    SLOW_WORK: CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_PROC should be CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_DEBUG
    
    CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_PROC was changed to CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_DEBUG, but not in all
    instances.  Change the remaining instances.  This makes the debugfs file
    display the time mark and the owner's description again.
    
    Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds>

commit b953249ca6f8f2cc5d83b38827cbd62849529452
Author: Dan Carpenter <error27>
Date:   Thu May 13 13:00:09 2010 +0100

    fscache: add missing unlock
    
    Sparse complained about this missing spin_unlock()
    
    Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27>
    Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds>

commit 878fdb161f958a8185b1ad0c4af3b27f49f08e70
Author: Christian Kujau <lists>
Date:   Thu May 13 12:59:48 2010 +0100

    FS-Cache: Remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag
    
    Remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag from FS-Cache so that Ubuntu can make use of the
    facility.
    
    Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <lists>
    Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds>

commit 537e2c26ecdc95fe7689a3b7126f3cd1fdc00e7c
Author: David Howells <dhowells>
Date:   Thu May 13 12:58:52 2010 +0100

    CacheFiles: Fix a race in cachefiles_delete_object() vs rename
    
    cachefiles_delete_object() can race with rename.  It gets the parent directory
    of the object it's asked to delete, then locks it - but rename may have changed
    the object's parent between the get and the completion of the lock.
    
    However, if such a circumstance is detected, we abandon our attempt to delete
    the object - since it's no longer in the index key path, it won't be seen
    again by lookups of that key.  The assumption is that cachefilesd may have
    culled it by renaming it to the graveyard for later destruction.
    
    Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells>
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro.org.uk>

commit cacbc322e5776b858e8e0756aa2c1be20178f723
Author: Al Viro <viro.org.uk>
Date:   Thu May 13 12:55:32 2010 +0100

    switch cachefiles to kern_path()
    
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro.org.uk>

commit 9cbcde0e799db4dac082de9104bb3806de2ea940
Author: David Howells <dhowells>
Date:   Thu May 13 12:55:06 2010 +0100

    FS-Cache: Avoid maybe-used-uninitialised warning on variable
    
    Andrew Morton's compiler sees the following warning in FS-Cache:
    
    fs/fscache/object-list.c: In function 'fscache_objlist_lookup':
    fs/fscache/object-list.c:94: warning: 'obj' may be used uninitialized in this function
    
    which my compiler doesn't.  This is a false positive as obj can only be
    used in the comparison against minobj if minobj has been set to something
    other than NULL, but for that to happen, obj has to be first set to
    something.
    
    Deal with this by preclearing obj too.
    
    Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm>
    Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds>

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-05-13 14:06:33 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 3 Aristeu Rozanski 2010-05-28 20:37:33 UTC
Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-31.el6

Comment 7 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-15 14:23:58 UTC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.


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