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<title>make sure that __dentry_kill() always invalidates d_seq, unhashed or not</title>
<updated>2018-08-15T16:10:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2018-08-09T14:15:54+00:00</published>
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commit 4c0d7cd5c8416b1ef41534d19163cb07ffaa03ab upstream.

RCU pathwalk relies upon the assumption that anything that changes
-&gt;d_inode of a dentry will invalidate its -&gt;d_seq.  That's almost
true - the one exception is that the final dput() of already unhashed
dentry does *not* touch -&gt;d_seq at all.  Unhashing does, though,
so for anything we'd found by RCU dcache lookup we are fine.
Unfortunately, we can *start* with an unhashed dentry or jump into
it.

We could try and be careful in the (few) places where that could
happen.  Or we could just make the final dput() invalidate the damn
thing, unhashed or not.  The latter is much simpler and easier to
backport, so let's do it that way.

Reported-by: "Dae R. Jeong" &lt;threeearcat@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>root dentries need RCU-delayed freeing</title>
<updated>2018-08-15T16:10:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2018-08-06T13:03:58+00:00</published>
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commit 90bad5e05bcdb0308cfa3d3a60f5c0b9c8e2efb3 upstream.

Since mountpoint crossing can happen without leaving lazy mode,
root dentries do need the same protection against having their
memory freed without RCU delay as everything else in the tree.

It's partially hidden by RCU delay between detaching from the
mount tree and dropping the vfsmount reference, but the starting
point of pathwalk can be on an already detached mount, in which
case umount-caused RCU delay has already passed by the time the
lazy pathwalk grabs rcu_read_lock().  If the starting point
happens to be at the root of that vfsmount *and* that vfsmount
covers the entire filesystem, we get trouble.

Fixes: 48a066e72d97 ("RCU'd vsfmounts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>do d_instantiate/unlock_new_inode combinations safely</title>
<updated>2018-05-11T19:36:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2018-05-04T12:23:01+00:00</published>
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For anything NFS-exported we do _not_ want to unlock new inode
before it has grown an alias; original set of fixes got the
ordering right, but missed the nasty complication in case of
lockdep being enabled - unlock_new_inode() does
	lockdep_annotate_inode_mutex_key(inode)
which can only be done before anyone gets a chance to touch
-&gt;i_mutex.  Unfortunately, flipping the order and doing
unlock_new_inode() before d_instantiate() opens a window when
mkdir can race with open-by-fhandle on a guessed fhandle, leading
to multiple aliases for a directory inode and all the breakage
that follows from that.

	Correct solution: a new primitive (d_instantiate_new())
combining these two in the right order - lockdep annotate, then
d_instantiate(), then the rest of unlock_new_inode().  All
combinations of d_instantiate() with unlock_new_inode() should
be converted to that.

Cc: stable@kernel.org	# 2.6.29 and later
Tested-by: Mike Marshall &lt;hubcap@omnibond.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>fs/dcache.c: add cond_resched() in shrink_dentry_list()</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Borisov</name>
<email>nborisov@suse.com</email>
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<published>2018-04-10T23:35:49+00:00</published>
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As previously reported (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8642031/)
it's possible to call shrink_dentry_list with a large number of dentries
(&gt; 10000).  This, in turn, could trigger the softlockup detector and
possibly trigger a panic.  In addition to the unmount path being
vulnerable to this scenario, at SuSE we've observed similar situation
happening during process exit on processes that touch a lot of dentries.
Here is an excerpt from a crash dump.  The number after the colon are
the number of dentries on the list passed to shrink_dentry_list:

PID 99760: 10722
PID 107530: 215
PID 108809: 24134
PID 108877: 21331
PID 141708: 16487

So we want to kill between 15k-25k dentries without yielding.

And one possible call stack looks like:

4 [ffff8839ece41db0] _raw_spin_lock at ffffffff8152a5f8
5 [ffff8839ece41db0] evict at ffffffff811c3026
6 [ffff8839ece41dd0] __dentry_kill at ffffffff811bf258
7 [ffff8839ece41df0] shrink_dentry_list at ffffffff811bf593
8 [ffff8839ece41e18] shrink_dcache_parent at ffffffff811bf830
9 [ffff8839ece41e50] proc_flush_task at ffffffff8120dd61
10 [ffff8839ece41ec0] release_task at ffffffff81059ebd
11 [ffff8839ece41f08] do_exit at ffffffff8105b8ce
12 [ffff8839ece41f78] sys_exit at ffffffff8105bd53
13 [ffff8839ece41f80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff81532909

While some of the callers of shrink_dentry_list do use cond_resched,
this is not sufficient to prevent softlockups.  So just move
cond_resched into shrink_dentry_list from its callers.

David said: I've found hundreds of occurrences of warnings that we emit
when need_resched stays set for a prolonged period of time with the
stack trace that is included in the change log.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521718946-31521-1-git-send-email-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nborisov@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Goldwyn Rodrigues &lt;rgoldwyn@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dcache: account external names as indirectly reclaimable memory</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
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<published>2018-04-10T23:27:44+00:00</published>
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I received a report about suspicious growth of unreclaimable slabs on
some machines.  I've found that it happens on machines with low memory
pressure, and these unreclaimable slabs are external names attached to
dentries.

External names are allocated using generic kmalloc() function, so they
are accounted as unreclaimable.  But they are held by dentries, which
are reclaimable, and they will be reclaimed under the memory pressure.

In particular, this breaks MemAvailable calculation, as it doesn't take
unreclaimable slabs into account.  This leads to a silly situation, when
a machine is almost idle, has no memory pressure and therefore has a big
dentry cache.  And the resulting MemAvailable is too low to start a new
workload.

To address the issue, the NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES counter is
used to track the amount of memory, consumed by external names.  The
counter is increased in the dentry allocation path, if an external name
structure is allocated; and it's decreased in the dentry freeing path.

To reproduce the problem I've used the following Python script:

  import os

  for iter in range (0, 10000000):
      try:
          name = ("/some_long_name_%d" % iter) + "_" * 220
          os.stat(name)
      except Exception:
          pass

Without this patch:
  $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemAvailable
  MemAvailable:    7811688 kB
  $ python indirect.py
  $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemAvailable
  MemAvailable:    2753052 kB

With the patch:
  $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemAvailable
  MemAvailable:    7809516 kB
  $ python indirect.py
  $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemAvailable
  MemAvailable:    7749144 kB

[guro@fb.com: fix indirectly reclaimable memory accounting for CONFIG_SLOB]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312194140.19517-1-guro@fb.com
[guro@fb.com: fix indirectly reclaimable memory accounting]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313125701.7955-1-guro@fb.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180305133743.12746-5-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>d_genocide: move export to definition</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T19:08:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2018-03-29T19:08:21+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fold dentry_lock_for_move() into its sole caller and clean it up</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T19:07:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-11T19:15:46+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>make non-exchanging __d_move() copy -&gt;d_parent rather than swap them</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T19:07:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-11T04:15:52+00:00</published>
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Currently d_move(from, to) does the following:
	* name/parent of from &lt;- old name/parent of to, from hashed there
	* to is unhashed
	* name of to is preserved
	* if from used to be detached, to gets detached
	* if from used to be attached, parent of to &lt;- old parent of from.

That's both user-visibly bogus and complicates reasoning a lot.
Much saner semantics would be
	* name/parent of from &lt;- name/parent of to, from hashed there.
	* to is unhashed
	* name/parent of to is unchanged.

The price, of course, is that old parent of from might lose a reference.
However,
	* all potentially cross-directory callers of d_move() have both
parents pinned directly; typically, dentries themselves are grabbed
only after we have grabbed and locked both parents.  IOW, the decrement
of old parent's refcount in case of d_move() won't reach zero.
	* __d_move() from d_splice_alias() is done to detached alias.
No refcount decrements in that case
	* __d_move() from __d_unalias() *can* get the refcount to zero.
So let's grab a reference to alias' old parent before calling __d_unalias()
and dput() it after we'd dropped rename_lock.

That does make d_splice_alias() potentially blocking.  However, it has
no callers in non-sleepable contexts (and the case where we'd grown
that dget/dput pair is _very_ rare, so performance is not an issue).

Another thing that needs adjustment is unlocking in the end of __d_move();
folded it in.  And cleaned the remnants of bogus ordering from the
"lock them in the beginning" counterpart - it's never been right and
now (well, for 7 years now) we have that thing always serialized on
rename_lock anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>split d_path() and friends into a separate file</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T19:07:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-06T00:15:50+00:00</published>
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Those parts of fs/dcache.c are pretty much self-contained.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dcache.c: trim includes</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T19:07:45+00:00</updated>
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<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-25T07:47:29+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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