From 5fc4cbd9fde5d4630494fd6ffc884148fb618087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 11:10:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mbcache: Avoid nesting of cache->c_list_lock under bit locks
Git-commit: 5fc4cbd9fde5d4630494fd6ffc884148fb618087
Patch-mainline: v6.1-rc1
References: bsc#1207647
Commit 307af6c87937 ("mbcache: automatically delete entries from cache
on freeing") started nesting cache->c_list_lock under the bit locks
protecting hash buckets of the mbcache hash table in
mb_cache_entry_create(). This causes problems for real-time kernels
because there spinlocks are sleeping locks while bitlocks stay atomic.
Luckily the nesting is easy to avoid by holding entry reference until
the entry is added to the LRU list. This makes sure we cannot race with
entry deletion.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 307af6c87937 ("mbcache: automatically delete entries from cache on freeing")
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908091032.10513-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
fs/mbcache.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/mbcache.c
+++ b/fs/mbcache.c
@@ -90,8 +90,14 @@ int mb_cache_entry_create(struct mb_cach
return -ENOMEM;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry->e_list);
- /* One ref for hash, one ref returned */
- atomic_set(&entry->e_refcnt, 1);
+ /*
+ * We create entry with two references. One reference is kept by the
+ * hash table, the other reference is used to protect us from
+ * mb_cache_entry_delete_or_get() until the entry is fully setup. This
+ * avoids nesting of cache->c_list_lock into hash table bit locks which
+ * is problematic for RT.
+ */
+ atomic_set(&entry->e_refcnt, 2);
entry->e_key = key;
entry->e_value = value;
entry->e_reusable = reusable;
@@ -114,6 +120,7 @@ int mb_cache_entry_create(struct mb_cach
atomic_inc(&entry->e_refcnt);
cache->c_entry_count++;
spin_unlock(&cache->c_list_lock);
+ mb_cache_entry_put(cache, entry);
return 0;
}