Re: INFO: task hung in io_sq_thread_stop

[Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 5:32 PM Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 08:05:33AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 9/9/20 7:43 AM, Hillf Danton wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 12:03:55 +0200 Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 01:49:22AM -0700, syzbot wrote:
> > >>> Hello,
> > >>>
> > >>> syzbot found the following issue on:
> > >>>
> > >>> HEAD commit:    dff9f829 Add linux-next specific files for 20200908
> > >>> git tree:       linux-next
> > >>> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=112f880d900000
> > >>> kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=37b3426c77bda44c
> > >>> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3c23789ea938faaef049
> > >>> compiler:       gcc (GCC) 10.1.0-syz 20200507
> > >>> syz repro:      https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=17c082a5900000
> > >>> C reproducer:   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=1474f5f9900000
> > >>>
> > >>> Bisection is inconclusive: the first bad commit could be any of:
> > >>>
> > >>> d730b1a2 io_uring: add IOURING_REGISTER_RESTRICTIONS opcode
> > >>> 7ec3d1dd io_uring: allow disabling rings during the creation
> > >>
> > >> I'm not sure it is related, but while rebasing I forgot to update the
> > >> right label in the error path.
> > >>
> > >> Since the check of ring state is after the increase of ctx refcount, we
> > >> need to decrease it jumping to 'out' label instead of 'out_fput':
> > >
> > > I think we need to fix 6a7bb9ff5744 ("io_uring: remove need for
> > > sqd->ctx_lock in io_sq_thread()") because the syzbot report
> > > indicates the io_sq_thread has to wake up the kworker before
> > > scheduling, and in turn the kworker has the chance to unpark it.
> > >
> > > Below is the minimum walkaround I can have because it can't
> > > ensure the parker will be waken in every case.
> > >
> > > --- a/fs/io_uring.c
> > > +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
> > > @@ -6834,6 +6834,10 @@ static int io_sq_thread(void *data)
> > >                     io_sq_thread_drop_mm();
> > >             }
> > >
> > > +           if (kthread_should_park()) {
> > > +                   /* wake up parker before scheduling */
> > > +                   continue;
> > > +           }
> > >             if (ret & SQT_SPIN) {
> > >                     io_run_task_work();
> > >                     cond_resched();
> > >
> >
> > I think this should go in the slow path:
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
> > index 652cc53432d4..1c4fa2a0fd82 100644
> > --- a/fs/io_uring.c
> > +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
> > @@ -6839,6 +6839,8 @@ static int io_sq_thread(void *data)
> >               } else if (ret == SQT_IDLE) {
> >                       list_for_each_entry(ctx, &sqd->ctx_list, sqd_list)
> >                               io_ring_set_wakeup_flag(ctx);
> > +                     if (kthread_should_park())
> > +                             continue;
> >                       schedule();
> >                       start_jiffies = jiffies;
> >               }
> >
>
> Yes, I agree since only in this case the kthread is not rescheduled.
>
> Thanks both for the fix :-)
> Feel free to add my R-b:
>
> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>

What happened with this fix?
The bug is marked as fixed with commit "io_uring: don't sleep schedule
in SQPOLL thread if we need to park":
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=d0cf0b29fc5520a8987b28f1a7b63264ae02535e
But such commit cannot be found in any tree.