NFS: Use FS-Cache invalidation
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:52:38 +0000 (21:52 +0000)
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:06:33 +0000 (22:06 +0000)
commitde242c0b8b365a9e348bf53143e18e9d8c9cfae8
tree2fc83ff5848503ce16d215e317f009aed164d534
parent9dc8d9bfe4415efb61a5e9390706b8a3bffef329
NFS: Use FS-Cache invalidation

Use the new FS-Cache invalidation facility from NFS to deal with foreign
changes being detected on the server rather than attempting to retire the old
cookie and get a new one.

The problem with the old method was that NFS did not wait for all outstanding
storage and retrieval ops on the cache to complete.  There was no automatic
wait between the calls to ->readpages() and calls to invalidate_inode_pages2()
as the latter can only wait on locked pages that have been added to the
pagecache (which they haven't yet on entry to ->readpages()).

This was leading to oopses like the one below when an outstanding read got cut
off from its cookie by a premature release.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8
IP: [<ffffffffa0075118>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x1dd/0x315 [fscache]
PGD 15889067 PUD 15890067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU 0
Modules linked in: cachefiles nfs fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpc

Pid: 4544, comm: tar Not tainted 3.1.0-rc4-fsdevel+ #1064                  /DG965RY
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0075118>]  [<ffffffffa0075118>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x1dd/0x315 [fscache]
RSP: 0018:ffff8800158799e8  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8800070d41e0 RCX: ffff8800083dc1b0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880015879960 RDI: ffff88003e627b90
RBP: ffff880015879a28 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff880015879950 R12: ffff880015879aa4
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8800083dc158 R15: ffff880015879be8
FS:  00007f671e9d87c0(0000) GS:ffff88003bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000000000000a8 CR3: 000000001587f000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process tar (pid: 4544, threadinfo ffff880015878000, task ffff880015875040)
Stack:
 ffffffffa00b1759 ffff8800070dc158 ffff8800000213da ffff88002a286508
 ffff880015879aa4 ffff880015879be8 0000000000000001 ffff88002a2866e8
 ffff880015879a88 ffffffffa00b20be 00000000000200da ffff880015875040
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa00b1759>] ? nfs_fscache_wait_bit+0xd/0xd [nfs]
 [<ffffffffa00b20be>] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x7e/0x13f [nfs]
 [<ffffffff81095fe7>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x156/0x662
 [<ffffffffa0098763>] nfs_readpages+0xee/0x187 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff81098a5e>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x1be/0x267
 [<ffffffff81098942>] ? __do_page_cache_readahead+0xa2/0x267
 [<ffffffff81098d7b>] ra_submit+0x1c/0x20
 [<ffffffff8109900a>] ondemand_readahead+0x28b/0x29a
 [<ffffffff810990ce>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x38/0x3a
 [<ffffffff81091d8a>] generic_file_aio_read+0x2ab/0x67e
 [<ffffffffa008cfbe>] nfs_file_read+0xa4/0xc9 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff810c22c4>] do_sync_read+0xba/0xfa
 [<ffffffff810a62c9>] ? might_fault+0x4e/0x9e
 [<ffffffff81177a47>] ? security_file_permission+0x7b/0x84
 [<ffffffff810c25dd>] ? rw_verify_area+0xab/0xc8
 [<ffffffff810c29a4>] vfs_read+0xaa/0x13a
 [<ffffffff810c2a79>] sys_read+0x45/0x6c
 [<ffffffff813ac37b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Reported-by: Mark Moseley <moseleymark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
fs/nfs/fscache.h
fs/nfs/inode.c
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c