NFSv4: Fix a potential sleep while atomic in nfs4_do_reclaim()

John Hubbard reports seeing the following stack trace:

nfs4_do_reclaim
   rcu_read_lock /* we are now in_atomic() and must not sleep */
       nfs4_purge_state_owners
           nfs4_free_state_owner
               nfs4_destroy_seqid_counter
                   rpc_destroy_wait_queue
                       cancel_delayed_work_sync
                           __cancel_work_timer
                               __flush_work
                                   start_flush_work
                                       might_sleep:
                                        (kernel/workqueue.c:2975: BUG)

The solution is to separate out the freeing of the state owners
from nfs4_purge_state_owners(), and perform that outside the atomic
context.

Reported-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Fixes: 0aaaf5c424c7f ("NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
index d03b9cf42bd0..a4e866b2b43b 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
@@ -624,24 +624,39 @@ void nfs4_put_state_owner(struct nfs4_state_owner *sp)
 /**
  * nfs4_purge_state_owners - Release all cached state owners
  * @server: nfs_server with cached state owners to release
+ * @head: resulting list of state owners
  *
  * Called at umount time.  Remaining state owners will be on
  * the LRU with ref count of zero.
+ * Note that the state owners are not freed, but are added
+ * to the list @head, which can later be used as an argument
+ * to nfs4_free_state_owners.
  */
-void nfs4_purge_state_owners(struct nfs_server *server)
+void nfs4_purge_state_owners(struct nfs_server *server, struct list_head *head)
 {
 	struct nfs_client *clp = server->nfs_client;
 	struct nfs4_state_owner *sp, *tmp;
-	LIST_HEAD(doomed);
 
 	spin_lock(&clp->cl_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(sp, tmp, &server->state_owners_lru, so_lru) {
-		list_move(&sp->so_lru, &doomed);
+		list_move(&sp->so_lru, head);
 		nfs4_remove_state_owner_locked(sp);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&clp->cl_lock);
+}
 
-	list_for_each_entry_safe(sp, tmp, &doomed, so_lru) {
+/**
+ * nfs4_purge_state_owners - Release all cached state owners
+ * @head: resulting list of state owners
+ *
+ * Frees a list of state owners that was generated by
+ * nfs4_purge_state_owners
+ */
+void nfs4_free_state_owners(struct list_head *head)
+{
+	struct nfs4_state_owner *sp, *tmp;
+
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(sp, tmp, head, so_lru) {
 		list_del(&sp->so_lru);
 		nfs4_free_state_owner(sp);
 	}
@@ -1865,12 +1880,13 @@ static int nfs4_do_reclaim(struct nfs_client *clp, const struct nfs4_state_recov
 	struct nfs4_state_owner *sp;
 	struct nfs_server *server;
 	struct rb_node *pos;
+	LIST_HEAD(freeme);
 	int status = 0;
 
 restart:
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(server, &clp->cl_superblocks, client_link) {
-		nfs4_purge_state_owners(server);
+		nfs4_purge_state_owners(server, &freeme);
 		spin_lock(&clp->cl_lock);
 		for (pos = rb_first(&server->state_owners);
 		     pos != NULL;
@@ -1899,6 +1915,7 @@ restart:
 		spin_unlock(&clp->cl_lock);
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
+	nfs4_free_state_owners(&freeme);
 	return 0;
 }