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In cachefiles_mark_object_active(), the new object is marked active and
then we try to add it to the active object tree. If a conflicting object
is already present, we want to wait for that to go away. After the wait,
we go round again and try to re-mark the object as being active - but it's
already marked active from the first time we went through and a BUG is
issued.
Fix this by clearing the CACHEFILES_OBJECT_ACTIVE flag before we try again.
Analysis from Kiran Kumar Modukuri:
[Impact]
Oops during heavy NFS + FSCache + Cachefiles
CacheFiles: Error: Overlong wait for old active object to go away.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000002
CacheFiles: Error: Object already active kernel BUG at
fs/cachefiles/namei.c:163!
[Cause]
In a heavily loaded system with big files being read and truncated, an
fscache object for a cookie is being dropped and a new object being
looked. The new object being looked for has to wait for the old object
to go away before the new object is moved to active state.
[Fix]
Clear the flag 'CACHEFILES_OBJECT_ACTIVE' for the new object when
retrying the object lookup.
[Testcase]
Have run ~100 hours of NFS stress tests and have not seen this bug recur.
[Regression Potential]
- Limited to fscache/cachefiles.
Fixes:
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| .. | ||
| bind.c | ||
| daemon.c | ||
| interface.c | ||
| internal.h | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| key.c | ||
| main.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| namei.c | ||
| proc.c | ||
| rdwr.c | ||
| security.c | ||
| xattr.c | ||