We hit a warning on rather old kernel - RHEL7-based 3.10.0-xxx.
Please don't think it's really near 3.10 - both RedHat and we (Virtuozzo)
backport a lot of things from modern mainstream kernels and do own changes.
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WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 63923 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:377 kernfs_get+0x2f/0x40
CPU: 2 PID: 63923 Comm: kworker/2:7 ve: 0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted
3.10.0-957.10.1.vz7.85.12 #1 85.12
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa7f92e67>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[<ffffffffa78987b8>] __warn+0xd8/0x100
[<ffffffffa78988fd>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
[<ffffffffa7aecaff>] kernfs_get+0x2f/0x40
[<ffffffffa7aed233>] __kernfs_remove+0x113/0x260
[<ffffffffa7aee201>] kernfs_remove+0x21/0x30
[<ffffffffa7af1010>] sysfs_remove_dir+0x50/0x80
[<ffffffffa7b9fb38>] kobject_del+0x18/0x50
[<ffffffffa7a38a4d>] sysfs_slab_remove+0x3d/0x50
[<ffffffffa79f1e6b>] do_kmem_cache_release+0x3b/0x70
[<ffffffffa79f2aa1>] memcg_destroy_kmem_caches+0xb1/0xf0
[<ffffffffa7a4ed5c>] mem_cgroup_css_free+0x4c/0x280
[<ffffffffa79377fc>] cgroup_free_fn+0x4c/0x120
[<ffffffffa78bc222>] process_one_work+0x182/0x440
[<ffffffffa78bd3d6>] worker_thread+0x126/0x3c0
[<ffffffffa78c4441>] kthread+0xd1/0xe0
The warning has been triggered only once and so far i'm unable to reproduce it.
i'm not completely sure why __kernfs_remove() believes "pos" should always
have kn->counter > 0 as it holds kernfs_mutex, but kernfs_notify_workfn()
could definitely do a kernfs_put() out of kernfs_mutex.
So i suppose kernfs_put() should be put under kernfs_mutex() in
kernfs_notify_workfn().
Konstantin Khorenko (1):
kernfs: keep kernfs node alive for __kernfs_remove()
fs/kernfs/file.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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