File remove problem
Kostik Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 00:07:19 PST 2007
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:15:47PM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 30 Nov, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:58:55PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, David Cecil wrote:
> >>
> >> >Thanks Bruce.
> >> >
> >> >Actually, I had found the same problem, and I came up with the first line
> >> >of your patch (adding IN_MODIFIED) myself, but I still saw the problem. I
> >>
> >> Yes, it's not that. Testing reminded me that there is normally a
> >> VOP_INACTIVE() after unlink so the IN_CHANGE mark doesn't live very long
> >> for unlink (it can only live long for open files).
> >>
> >> Testing shows that the problem is easy to reproduce and often partially
> >> detected before it becomes fatal. I saw something like the following:
> >>
> >> after touch a; ln a b; rm a; unmount -- no problem with 1 link remaining
> >> after touch a; rm a; unmount -- no problem with unmount
> >> after touch a; ln a b; rm a; mount -u o ro -- no problem with 1 link...
> >> after touch a; ; rm a; mount -u o ro -- worked once without soft
> >> updates but seemed to be responsible for a soft update panic later
> >> after touch a; ; rm a; mount -u o ro -- usually fails with soft
> >> updates; the error is detected in various ways:
> >> under ~5.2, mount -u prints "/f: update error: blocks 0 files 1"
> >> but succeeds
> >> under -current, mount -u fails and a subroutine prints
> >> "softdep_waitidle: Failed to flush worklist for 0xc3e1a29c"
> >> However, mount -u apparently cannot afford to fail at this
> >> poing since it has committed to succeeding -- further
> >> mount -u's and unmounts fail and it takes a reboot to reach
> >> an fsck that can fix the problem.
> >>
> >> mount -u seems to do some things right: at least under -current:
> >> - it calls ffs_sync() and thus ffs_update() with waitfor != 0.
> >> - IN_MODIFIED is usually already set in ffs_update().
> >> - softdep_update_inode_inodeblock() in ffs_update() seems to
> >> make null changes. That doesn't seem right -- shouldn't it
> >> update the link count and finish removing the file?... I
> >> just noticed that ufs_inactive() handles some of this.
> >> - it calls softdep_flushfiles() after doing the sync. This
> >> doesn't seem to touch the inode.
> >> - apparently, softdep_flushfiles() fails in -current, while in
> >> ~5.2 it bogusly succeeds and then code just after it is called
> >> detects a problem but doesn't handle it.
> >>
> >> >didn't pick up on the need for the second line (else if (DOINGASYNC(dvp))
> >> >{) though. It's a default mount, so I don't understand how that will
> >> >help, i.e. it won't be an async mount, right?
> >>
> >> Ignore that. It is for async mounts, to make them unconditionally async.
> >>
> >> >One more point to address Julian's question, the partition is not mounted
> >> >with soft updates.
> >>
> >> Interesting. I saw no sign of the problem without soft updates except a
> >> panic later after enabling soft updates. I was running fsck a lot but
> >> may have forgotten one since no error was detected. The problem should
> >> be easier to understand if it affects non-soft-updates.
> >>
> >> [Context lost to top posting]
> >>
> >
> > As a speculation, it might be that ufs_inactive() should conditionalize on
> > fs_ronly instead of MNT_RDONLY. Then, VOP_INACTIVE() would set up the
> > IN_CHANGE|IN_UPDATE and finally call the ffs_update() ?
>
> That sounds reasonable to me. I see that ffs_update(), which is called
> by ufs_inactive(), looks at fs_ronly.
The patch (compile-tested only) is below.
diff --git a/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c b/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c
index cbccc62..687011d 100644
--- a/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c
+++ b/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ static void ffs_oldfscompat_read(struct fs *, struct ufsmount *,
ufs2_daddr_t);
static void ffs_oldfscompat_write(struct fs *, struct ufsmount *);
static void ffs_ifree(struct ufsmount *ump, struct inode *ip);
+static int ffs_isronly(struct ufsmount *ump);
static vfs_init_t ffs_init;
static vfs_uninit_t ffs_uninit;
static vfs_extattrctl_t ffs_extattrctl;
@@ -748,6 +749,7 @@ ffs_mountfs(devvp, mp, td)
ump->um_valloc = ffs_valloc;
ump->um_vfree = ffs_vfree;
ump->um_ifree = ffs_ifree;
+ ump->um_isronly = ffs_isronly;
mtx_init(UFS_MTX(ump), "FFS", "FFS Lock", MTX_DEF);
bcopy(bp->b_data, ump->um_fs, (u_int)fs->fs_sbsize);
if (fs->fs_sbsize < SBLOCKSIZE)
@@ -1862,3 +1864,12 @@ ffs_geom_strategy(struct bufobj *bo, struct buf *bp)
}
g_vfs_strategy(bo, bp);
}
+
+static int
+ffs_isronly(struct ufsmount *ump)
+{
+ struct fs *fs = ump->um_fs;
+
+ return (fs->fs_ronly);
+}
+
diff --git a/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_inode.c b/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_inode.c
index 448f436..a9abbeb 100644
--- a/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_inode.c
+++ b/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_inode.c
@@ -90,8 +90,7 @@ ufs_inactive(ap)
ufs_gjournal_close(vp);
#endif
if ((ip->i_effnlink == 0 && DOINGSOFTDEP(vp)) ||
- (ip->i_nlink <= 0 &&
- (vp->v_mount->mnt_flag & MNT_RDONLY) == 0)) {
+ (ip->i_nlink <= 0 && !UFS_ISRONLY(ip->i_ump))) {
loop:
if (vn_start_secondary_write(vp, &mp, V_NOWAIT) != 0) {
/* Cannot delete file while file system is suspended */
@@ -121,7 +120,7 @@ ufs_inactive(ap)
}
if (ip->i_effnlink == 0 && DOINGSOFTDEP(vp))
softdep_releasefile(ip);
- if (ip->i_nlink <= 0 && (vp->v_mount->mnt_flag & MNT_RDONLY) == 0) {
+ if (ip->i_nlink <= 0 && !UFS_ISRONLY(ip->i_ump)) {
#ifdef QUOTA
if (!getinoquota(ip))
(void)chkiq(ip, -1, NOCRED, FORCE);
diff --git a/sys/ufs/ufs/ufsmount.h b/sys/ufs/ufs/ufsmount.h
index 80fe3fa..57e7dd0 100644
--- a/sys/ufs/ufs/ufsmount.h
+++ b/sys/ufs/ufs/ufsmount.h
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ struct ufsmount {
int (*um_valloc)(struct vnode *, int, struct ucred *, struct vnode **);
int (*um_vfree)(struct vnode *, ino_t, int);
void (*um_ifree)(struct ufsmount *, struct inode *);
+ int (*um_isronly)(struct ufsmount *);
};
#define UFS_BALLOC(aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff) VFSTOUFS((aa)->v_mount)->um_balloc(aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff)
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ struct ufsmount {
#define UFS_VALLOC(aa, bb, cc, dd) VFSTOUFS((aa)->v_mount)->um_valloc(aa, bb, cc, dd)
#define UFS_VFREE(aa, bb, cc) VFSTOUFS((aa)->v_mount)->um_vfree(aa, bb, cc)
#define UFS_IFREE(aa, bb) ((aa)->um_ifree(aa, bb))
+#define UFS_ISRONLY(aa) ((aa)->um_isronly(aa))
#define UFS_LOCK(aa) mtx_lock(&(aa)->um_lock)
#define UFS_UNLOCK(aa) mtx_unlock(&(aa)->um_lock)
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