In kernel 4.17 I removed some code from dm-bufio that did slab cache
merging (commit 21bb132767: "dm bufio: remove code that merges slab
caches") - both slab and slub support merging caches with identical
attributes, so dm-bufio now just calls kmem_cache_create and relies on
implicit merging.
This uncovered a bug in the slub subsystem - if we delete a cache and
immediatelly create another cache with the same attributes, it fails
because of duplicate filename in /sys/kernel/slab/. The slub subsystem
offloads freeing the cache to a workqueue - and if we create the new
cache before the workqueue runs, it complains because of duplicate
filename in sysfs.
This patch fixes the bug by moving the call of kobject_del from
sysfs_slab_remove_workfn to shutdown_cache. kobject_del must be called
while we hold slab_mutex - so that the sysfs entry is deleted before a
cache with the same attributes could be created.
Running device-mapper-test-suite with:
dmtest run --suite thin-provisioning -n /commit_failure_causes_fallback/
triggered:
Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 1572848, async page read
device-mapper: thin: 253:1: metadata operation 'dm_pool_alloc_data_block' failed: error = -5
device-mapper: thin: 253:1: aborting current metadata transaction
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/kernel/slab/:a-0000144'
CPU: 2 PID: 1037 Comm: kworker/u48:1 Not tainted 4.17.0.snitm+ #25
Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-1029P-WTR/X11DDW-L, BIOS 2.0a 12/06/2017
Workqueue: dm-thin do_worker [dm_thin_pool]
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x5a/0x73
sysfs_warn_dup+0x58/0x70
sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x77/0x80
kobject_add_internal+0xba/0x2e0
kobject_init_and_add+0x70/0xb0
sysfs_slab_add+0xb1/0x250
__kmem_cache_create+0x116/0x150
create_cache+0xd9/0x1f0
kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x1c1/0x250
kmem_cache_create+0x18/0x20
dm_bufio_client_create+0x1ae/0x410 [dm_bufio]
dm_block_manager_create+0x5e/0x90 [dm_persistent_data]
__create_persistent_data_objects+0x38/0x940 [dm_thin_pool]
dm_pool_abort_metadata+0x64/0x90 [dm_thin_pool]
metadata_operation_failed+0x59/0x100 [dm_thin_pool]
alloc_data_block.isra.53+0x86/0x180 [dm_thin_pool]
process_cell+0x2a3/0x550 [dm_thin_pool]
do_worker+0x28d/0x8f0 [dm_thin_pool]
process_one_work+0x171/0x370
worker_thread+0x49/0x3f0
kthread+0xf8/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
kobject_add_internal failed for :a-0000144 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
kmem_cache_create(dm_bufio_buffer-16) failed with error -17
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.1806151817130.6333@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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