Public bug reported:
SRU Justification:
Impact: In pre-production at a mutual "hyperscaler" customer that is
using the Ubuntu jammy kernel's NFS client with Hammerspace's pNFS
flexfiles: NFS client deadlock occurred due to upstream commit
7be7b3ca16a59 ("NFS: Ensure we immediately start writeback on
rescheduled writes"). Which was later fixed with upstream commit
b1a28f2eb9ea7 ("NFS: nfs_async_write_reschedule_io must not recurse into
the writeback code") in August 2022. But it unfortunately wasn't marked
for stable@ at that time. That has since been rectified and Greg
Kroah-Hartman has now picked it up for the next stable/linux-5.15.y
kernel (but it hasn't yet appeared in the stable repo yet), please see:
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/2024112146-tiptoeing-
available-c5fe@gregkh/T/
Fix: Apply upstream commit b1a28f2eb9ea7 ("NFS:
nfs_async_write_reschedule_io must not recurse into the writeback
code"), that commit was developed by and came from Trond Myklebust the
upstream Linux NFS client maintainer.
Testcase: Cause buffered IO issued by NFS client using pNFS flexfiles to hit
error paths (due to heavy enterprise use, with container limits being imposed,
which makes OOM within container particularly prone to hit error memory
allocation errors _and_ additional reason for NFS IO to be retransmitted, e.g.
due to volume down/up bounces). This can lead to deadlock in NFS due to
recursion with page locks already held, e.g.:
[<0>] wait_on_page_bit_common+0x10c/0x3d0
[<0>] wait_on_page_bit+0x3f/0x50
[<0>] wait_on_page_writeback+0x26/0x80
[<0>] write_cache_pages+0x138/0x460
[<0>] nfs_writepages+0x10d/0x200 [nfs]
[<0>] do_writepages+0xd4/0x200
[<0>] filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x89/0xe0
[<0>] filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x54/0x70
[<0>] nfs_async_write_reschedule_io+0x69/0x80 [nfs]
[<0>] ff_layout_reset_write+0x73/0xe0 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]
[<0>] ff_layout_write_release+0x7a/0x90 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]
[<0>] rpc_free_task+0x3d/0x70 [sunrpc]
[<0>] rpc_async_release+0x30/0x50 [sunrpc]
[<0>] process_one_work+0x228/0x3d0
[<0>] worker_thread+0x53/0x420
[<0>] kthread+0x127/0x150
[<0>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
** Affects: kernel-package (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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NFS: fix deadlock with pNFS flexfiles IO retry error path
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