[Drbd-dev] [PATCH 12/17] drbd: fix potential deadlock when trying to detach during handshake

[Philipp Reisner]

From: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com>

When requesting a detach, we first suspend IO, and also inhibit meta-data IO
by means of drbd_md_get_buffer(), because we don't want to "fail" the disk
while there is IO in-flight: the transition into D_FAILED for detach purposes
may get misinterpreted as actual IO error in a confused endio function.

We wrap it all into wait_event(), to retry in case the drbd_req_state()
returns SS_IN_TRANSIENT_STATE, as it does for example during an ongoing
connection handshake.

In that example, the receiver thread may need to grab drbd_md_get_buffer()
during the handshake to make progress.  To avoid potential deadlock with
detach, detach needs to grab and release the meta data buffer inside of
that wait_event retry loop. To avoid lock inversion between
mutex_lock(&device->state_mutex) and drbd_md_get_buffer(device),
introduce a new enum chg_state_flag CS_INHIBIT_MD_IO, and move the
call to drbd_md_get_buffer() inside the state_mutex grabbed in
drbd_req_state().

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner at linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com>

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
index c383b6c..6bb58a6 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
@@ -2149,34 +2149,13 @@ int drbd_adm_attach(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 
 static int adm_detach(struct drbd_device *device, int force)
 {
-	enum drbd_state_rv retcode;
-	void *buffer;
-	int ret;
-
 	if (force) {
 		set_bit(FORCE_DETACH, &device->flags);
 		drbd_force_state(device, NS(disk, D_FAILED));
-		retcode = SS_SUCCESS;
-		goto out;
+		return SS_SUCCESS;
 	}
 
-	drbd_suspend_io(device); /* so no-one is stuck in drbd_al_begin_io */
-	buffer = drbd_md_get_buffer(device, __func__); /* make sure there is no in-flight meta-data IO */
-	if (buffer) {
-		retcode = drbd_request_state(device, NS(disk, D_FAILED));
-		drbd_md_put_buffer(device);
-	} else /* already <= D_FAILED */
-		retcode = SS_NOTHING_TO_DO;
-	/* D_FAILED will transition to DISKLESS. */
-	drbd_resume_io(device);
-	ret = wait_event_interruptible(device->misc_wait,
-			device->state.disk != D_FAILED);
-	if ((int)retcode == (int)SS_IS_DISKLESS)
-		retcode = SS_NOTHING_TO_DO;
-	if (ret)
-		retcode = ERR_INTR;
-out:
-	return retcode;
+	return drbd_request_detach_interruptible(device);
 }
 
 /* Detaching the disk is a process in multiple stages.  First we need to lock
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.c
index 306f116..0813c65 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.c
@@ -579,11 +579,14 @@ drbd_req_state(struct drbd_device *device, union drbd_state mask,
 	unsigned long flags;
 	union drbd_state os, ns;
 	enum drbd_state_rv rv;
+	void *buffer = NULL;
 
 	init_completion(&done);
 
 	if (f & CS_SERIALIZE)
 		mutex_lock(device->state_mutex);
+	if (f & CS_INHIBIT_MD_IO)
+		buffer = drbd_md_get_buffer(device, __func__);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&device->resource->req_lock, flags);
 	os = drbd_read_state(device);
@@ -636,6 +639,8 @@ drbd_req_state(struct drbd_device *device, union drbd_state mask,
 	}
 
 abort:
+	if (buffer)
+		drbd_md_put_buffer(device);
 	if (f & CS_SERIALIZE)
 		mutex_unlock(device->state_mutex);
 
@@ -664,6 +669,47 @@ _drbd_request_state(struct drbd_device *device, union drbd_state mask,
 	return rv;
 }
 
+/*
+ * We grab drbd_md_get_buffer(), because we don't want to "fail" the disk while
+ * there is IO in-flight: the transition into D_FAILED for detach purposes
+ * may get misinterpreted as actual IO error in a confused endio function.
+ *
+ * We wrap it all into wait_event(), to retry in case the drbd_req_state()
+ * returns SS_IN_TRANSIENT_STATE.
+ *
+ * To avoid potential deadlock with e.g. the receiver thread trying to grab
+ * drbd_md_get_buffer() while trying to get out of the "transient state", we
+ * need to grab and release the meta data buffer inside of that wait_event loop.
+ */
+static enum drbd_state_rv
+request_detach(struct drbd_device *device)
+{
+	return drbd_req_state(device, NS(disk, D_FAILED),
+			CS_VERBOSE | CS_ORDERED | CS_INHIBIT_MD_IO);
+}
+
+enum drbd_state_rv
+drbd_request_detach_interruptible(struct drbd_device *device)
+{
+	enum drbd_state_rv rv;
+	int ret;
+
+	drbd_suspend_io(device); /* so no-one is stuck in drbd_al_begin_io */
+	wait_event_interruptible(device->state_wait,
+		(rv = request_detach(device)) != SS_IN_TRANSIENT_STATE);
+	drbd_resume_io(device);
+
+	ret = wait_event_interruptible(device->misc_wait,
+			device->state.disk != D_FAILED);
+
+	if (rv == SS_IS_DISKLESS)
+		rv = SS_NOTHING_TO_DO;
+	if (ret)
+		rv = ERR_INTR;
+
+	return rv;
+}
+
 enum drbd_state_rv
 _drbd_request_state_holding_state_mutex(struct drbd_device *device, union drbd_state mask,
 		    union drbd_state val, enum chg_state_flags f)
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.h b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.h
index 6c9d5d4..0276c98 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.h
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.h
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ enum chg_state_flags {
 	CS_DC_SUSP       = 1 << 10,
 	CS_DC_MASK       = CS_DC_ROLE + CS_DC_PEER + CS_DC_CONN + CS_DC_DISK + CS_DC_PDSK,
 	CS_IGN_OUTD_FAIL = 1 << 11,
+
+	/* Make sure no meta data IO is in flight, by calling
+	 * drbd_md_get_buffer().  Used for graceful detach. */
+	CS_INHIBIT_MD_IO = 1 << 12,
 };
 
 /* drbd_dev_state and drbd_state are different types. This is to stress the
@@ -156,6 +160,10 @@ static inline int drbd_request_state(struct drbd_device *device,
 	return _drbd_request_state(device, mask, val, CS_VERBOSE + CS_ORDERED);
 }
 
+/* for use in adm_detach() (drbd_adm_detach(), drbd_adm_down()) */
+enum drbd_state_rv
+drbd_request_detach_interruptible(struct drbd_device *device);
+
 enum drbd_role conn_highest_role(struct drbd_connection *connection);
 enum drbd_role conn_highest_peer(struct drbd_connection *connection);
 enum drbd_disk_state conn_highest_disk(struct drbd_connection *connection);
-- 
2.7.4