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Commit 0fe0bbe0 authored by Dave Chinner's avatar Dave Chinner Committed by Darrick J. Wong
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xfs: bunmapi has unnecessary AG lock ordering issues

large directory block size operations are assert failing because
xfs_bunmapi() is not completely removing fragmented directory blocks
like so:

XFS: Assertion failed: done, file: fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.c, line: 677
....
Call Trace:
 xfs_dir2_shrink_inode+0x1a8/0x210
 xfs_dir2_block_to_sf+0x2ae/0x410
 xfs_dir2_block_removename+0x21a/0x280
 xfs_dir_removename+0x195/0x1d0
 xfs_rename+0xb79/0xc50
 ? avc_has_perm+0x8d/0x1a0
 ? avc_has_perm_noaudit+0x9a/0x120
 xfs_vn_rename+0xdb/0x150
 vfs_rename+0x719/0xb50
 ? __lookup_hash+0x6a/0xa0
 do_renameat2+0x413/0x5e0
 __x64_sys_rename+0x45/0x50
 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x70
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

We are aborting the bunmapi() pass because of this specific chunk of
code:

                /*
                 * Make sure we don't touch multiple AGF headers out of order
                 * in a single transaction, as that could cause AB-BA deadlocks.
                 */
                if (!wasdel && !isrt) {
                        agno = XFS_FSB_TO_AGNO(mp, del.br_startblock);
                        if (prev_agno != NULLAGNUMBER && prev_agno > agno)
                                break;
                        prev_agno = agno;
                }

This is designed to prevent deadlocks in AGF locking when freeing
multiple extents by ensuring that we only ever lock in increasing
AG number order. Unfortunately, this also violates the "bunmapi will
always succeed" semantic that some high level callers depend on,
such as xfs_dir2_shrink_inode(), xfs_da_shrink_inode() and
xfs_inactive_symlink_rmt().

This AG lock ordering was introduced back in 2017 to fix deadlocks
triggered by generic/299 as reported here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/800468eb-3ded-9166-20a4-047de8018582@gmail.com/

This codebase is old enough that it was before we were defering all
AG based extent freeing from within xfs_bunmapi(). THat is, we never
actually lock AGs in xfs_bunmapi() any more - every non-rt based
extent free is added to the defer ops list, as is all BMBT block
freeing. And RT extents are not RT based, so there's no lock
ordering issues associated with them.

Hence this AGF lock ordering code is both broken and dead. Let's
just remove it so that the large directory block code works reliably
again.

Tested against xfs/538 and generic/299 which is the original test
that exposed the deadlocks that this code fixed.

Fixes: 5b094d6d

 ("xfs: fix multi-AG deadlock in xfs_bunmapi")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
parent 991c2c59
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