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btrfs: allocate new inode in NOFS context
A user reported a lockdep splat ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 5.2.11-gentoo #2 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ kswapd0/711 is trying to acquire lock: 000000007777a663 (sb_internal){.+.+}, at: start_transaction+0x3a8/0x500 but task is already holding lock: 000000000ba86300 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x0/0x30 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}: kmem_cache_alloc+0x1f/0x1c0 btrfs_alloc_inode+0x1f/0x260 alloc_inode+0x16/0xa0 new_inode+0xe/0xb0 btrfs_new_inode+0x70/0x610 btrfs_symlink+0xd0/0x420 vfs_symlink+0x9c/0x100 do_symlinkat+0x66/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x55/0x1c0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe -> #0 (sb_internal){.+.+}: __sb_start_write+0xf6/0x150 start_transaction+0x3a8/0x500 btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_inode+0x59/0x110 btrfs_evict_inode+0x19e/0x4c0 evict+0xbc/0x1f0 inode_lru_isolate+0x113/0x190 __list_lru_walk_one.isra.4+0x5c/0x100 list_lru_walk_one+0x32/0x50 prune_icache_sb+0x36/0x80 super_cache_scan+0x14a/0x1d0 do_shrink_slab+0x131/0x320 shrink_node+0xf7/0x380 balance_pgdat+0x2d5/0x640 kswapd+0x2ba/0x5e0 kthread+0x147/0x160 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(fs_reclaim); lock(sb_internal); lock(fs_reclaim); lock(sb_internal); *** DEADLOCK *** 3 locks held by kswapd0/711: #0: 000000000ba86300 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x0/0x30 #1: 000000004a5100f8 (shrinker_rwsem){++++}, at: shrink_node+0x9a/0x380 #2: 00000000f956fa46 (&type->s_umount_key#30){++++}, at: super_cache_scan+0x35/0x1d0 stack backtrace: CPU: 7 PID: 711 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 5.2.11-gentoo #2 Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision Tower 3620/0MWYPT, BIOS 2.4.2 09/29/2017 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x85/0xc7 print_circular_bug.cold.40+0x1d9/0x235 __lock_acquire+0x18b1/0x1f00 lock_acquire+0xa6/0x170 ? start_transaction+0x3a8/0x500 __sb_start_write+0xf6/0x150 ? start_transaction+0x3a8/0x500 start_transaction+0x3a8/0x500 btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_inode+0x59/0x110 btrfs_evict_inode+0x19e/0x4c0 ? var_wake_function+0x20/0x20 evict+0xbc/0x1f0 inode_lru_isolate+0x113/0x190 ? discard_new_inode+0xc0/0xc0 __list_lru_walk_one.isra.4+0x5c/0x100 ? discard_new_inode+0xc0/0xc0 list_lru_walk_one+0x32/0x50 prune_icache_sb+0x36/0x80 super_cache_scan+0x14a/0x1d0 do_shrink_slab+0x131/0x320 shrink_node+0xf7/0x380 balance_pgdat+0x2d5/0x640 kswapd+0x2ba/0x5e0 ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x90/0x90 kthread+0x147/0x160 ? balance_pgdat+0x640/0x640 ? __kthread_create_on_node+0x160/0x160 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 This is because btrfs_new_inode() calls new_inode() under the transaction. We could probably move the new_inode() outside of this but for now just wrap it in memalloc_nofs_save(). Reported-by: Zdenek Sojka <[email protected]> Fixes: 712e36c ("btrfs: use GFP_KERNEL in btrfs_alloc_inode") CC: [email protected] # 4.16+ Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <[email protected]>
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