On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:10:28PM +0900, Kohji Okuno wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think that devfs has a problem.
> I encountered the problem that open("/dev/AAA") returned ENOENT.
> Of course, /dev/AAA exists.
>
> ENOENT was created by the point(***) in devfs_allocv().
> I think that the race condition had occurred between process A and
> vnlru kernel thread.
>
> Please check the following.
>
> If vnlru set VI_DOOMED to vp->v_iflag but vnlru didn't still execute
> VOP_RECLAIM(), process A cat get valid vp from de->de_vnode.
> But, vget() will return ENOENT, because vp->v_iflag has VI_DOOMED.
>
> When I set the break point to (***), I checked that de->de_vnode and
> vp->v_data were NULL.
>
>
> process A: vnlru:
>
> devfs_allocv() {
> vgonel(vp) {
> ... ...
> vp->v_iflag |= VI_DOOMED;
> mtx_lock(&devfs_de_interlock); ...
> vp = de->de_vnode;
> if (vp != NULL) { VI_UNLOCK(vp);
> _____________/ ...
> VI_LOCK(vp); ____________/ if (VOP_RECLAIM(vp, td))
> mtx_unlock(&devfs_de_interlock); ...
> ... \ devfs_reclaim(ap) {
> error = vget(vp,...); \
> ... \______
> mtx_lock(&devfs_de_interlock);
> if (devfs_allocv_drop_refs(...)) { de = vp->v_data;
> ... if (de != NULL) {
> } de->de_vnode = NULL;
> else if (error) { vp->v_data = NULL;
> ... }
> rturn (error); (***) mtx_unlock(&devfs_de_interlock);
> } ...
> }
>
>
>
> I think that devfs_allocv() should be fixed as below.
> How do you think?
>
> devfs_allocv(struct devfs_dirent *de, struct mount *mp, struct vnode **vpp)
> {
> int error;
> struct vnode *vp;
> struct cdev *dev;
> struct devfs_mount *dmp;
>
> dmp = VFSTODEVFS(mp);
> +#if 1
> + retry:
> +#endif
> if (de->de_flags & DE_DOOMED) {
>
> ...
>
> mtx_lock(&devfs_de_interlock);
> vp = de->de_vnode;
> if (vp != NULL) {
> VI_LOCK(vp);
> mtx_unlock(&devfs_de_interlock);
> sx_xunlock(&dmp->dm_lock);
> error = vget(vp, LK_EXCLUSIVE | LK_INTERLOCK, curthread);
> sx_xlock(&dmp->dm_lock);
> if (devfs_allocv_drop_refs(0, dmp, de)) {
> if (error == 0)
> vput(vp);
> return (ENOENT);
> }
> else if (error) {
> +#if 1
> + if (error == ENOENT)
> + goto retry;
> +#endif
> sx_xunlock(&dmp->dm_lock);
> return (error);
> }
>
Thank you for the report.
The proposed change would revert r179247, which also caused some issues.
Are you able to reproduce the problem ?
Could you try the following patch ? I cannot reproduce your situation,
so the patch is untested by me.
diff --git a/sys/fs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c b/sys/fs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c
index bf6dab8..bbbfff4 100644
--- a/sys/fs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c
+++ b/sys/fs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c
@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ devfs_allocv(struct devfs_dirent *de, struct mount *mp, int
lockmode,
sx_xunlock(&dmp->dm_lock);
return (ENOENT);
}
+loop:
DEVFS_DE_HOLD(de);
DEVFS_DMP_HOLD(dmp);
mtx_lock(&devfs_de_interlock);
@@ -412,7 +413,16 @@ devfs_allocv(struct devfs_dirent *de, struct mount *mp,
int lockmode,
vput(vp);
return (ENOENT);
}
- else if (error) {
+ else if (error != 0) {
+ if (error == ENOENT) {
+ mtx_lock(&devfs_de_interlock);
+ while (de->de_vnode != NULL) {
+ msleep(&de->de_vnode,
+ &devfs_de_interlock, 0, "dvall", 0);
+ }
+ mtx_unlock(&devfs_de_interlock);
+ goto loop;
+ }
sx_xunlock(&dmp->dm_lock);
return (error);
}
@@ -1259,6 +1269,7 @@ devfs_reclaim(struct vop_reclaim_args *ap)
if (de != NULL) {
de->de_vnode = NULL;
vp->v_data = NULL;
+ wakeup(&de->de_vnode);
}
mtx_unlock(&devfs_de_interlock);
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