Dear Guoqing,

On 13.02.21 01:49, Guoqing Jiang wrote:
Unregister sync_thread doesn't need to hold reconfig_mutex since it
doesn't reconfigure array.

And it could cause deadlock problem for raid5 as follows:

1. process A tried to reap sync thread with reconfig_mutex held after echo
    idle to sync_action.
2. raid5 sync thread was blocked if there were too many active stripes.
3. SB_CHANGE_PENDING was set (because of write IO comes from upper layer)
    which causes the number of active stripes can't be decreased.
4. SB_CHANGE_PENDING can't be cleared since md_check_recovery was not able
    to hold reconfig_mutex.

More details in the link:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/5ed54ffc-ce82-bf66-4eff-390cb23bc...@molgen.mpg.de/T/#t

And add one parameter to md_reap_sync_thread since it could be called by
dm-raid which doesn't hold reconfig_mutex.

Reported-and-tested-by: Donald Buczek <buc...@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.ji...@cloud.ionos.com>
---
V2:
1. add one parameter to md_reap_sync_thread per Jack's suggestion.

  drivers/md/dm-raid.c |  2 +-
  drivers/md/md.c      | 14 +++++++++-----
  drivers/md/md.h      |  2 +-
  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
index cab12b2..0c4cbba 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
@@ -3668,7 +3668,7 @@ static int raid_message(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned 
int argc, char **argv,
        if (!strcasecmp(argv[0], "idle") || !strcasecmp(argv[0], "frozen")) {
                if (mddev->sync_thread) {
                        set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
-                       md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
+                       md_reap_sync_thread(mddev, false);
                }
        } else if (decipher_sync_action(mddev, mddev->recovery) != st_idle)
                return -EBUSY;
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index ca40942..0c12b7f 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -4857,7 +4857,7 @@ action_store(struct mddev *mddev, const char *page, 
size_t len)
                                flush_workqueue(md_misc_wq);
                        if (mddev->sync_thread) {
                                set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
-                               md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
+                               md_reap_sync_thread(mddev, true);
                        }
                        mddev_unlock(mddev);
                }
@@ -6234,7 +6234,7 @@ static void __md_stop_writes(struct mddev *mddev)
                flush_workqueue(md_misc_wq);
        if (mddev->sync_thread) {
                set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
-               md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
+               md_reap_sync_thread(mddev, true);
        }
del_timer_sync(&mddev->safemode_timer);
@@ -9256,7 +9256,7 @@ void md_check_recovery(struct mddev *mddev)
                         * ->spare_active and clear saved_raid_disk
                         */
                        set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
-                       md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
+                       md_reap_sync_thread(mddev, true);
                        clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER, &mddev->recovery);
                        clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery);
                        clear_bit(MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING, &mddev->sb_flags);
@@ -9291,7 +9291,7 @@ void md_check_recovery(struct mddev *mddev)
                        goto unlock;
                }
                if (mddev->sync_thread) {
-                       md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
+                       md_reap_sync_thread(mddev, true);
                        goto unlock;
                }
                /* Set RUNNING before clearing NEEDED to avoid
@@ -9364,14 +9364,18 @@ void md_check_recovery(struct mddev *mddev)
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(md_check_recovery);
-void md_reap_sync_thread(struct mddev *mddev)
+void md_reap_sync_thread(struct mddev *mddev, bool reconfig_mutex_held)
  {
        struct md_rdev *rdev;
        sector_t old_dev_sectors = mddev->dev_sectors;
        bool is_reshaped = false;
/* resync has finished, collect result */
+       if (reconfig_mutex_held)
+               mddev_unlock(mddev);


If one thread got here, e.g. via action_store( /* "idle" */ ), now that the 
mutex is unlocked, is there anything which would prevent another thread getting  here as 
well, e.g. via the same path?

If not, they both might call

        md_unregister_thread(&mddev->sync_thread);

Which is not reentrant:

void md_unregister_thread(struct md_thread **threadp)
{
        struct md_thread *thread = *threadp;
        if (!thread)
                return;
        pr_debug("interrupting MD-thread pid %d\n", task_pid_nr(thread->tsk));
        /* Locking ensures that mddev_unlock does not wake_up a
         * non-existent thread
         */
        spin_lock(&pers_lock);
        *threadp = NULL;
        spin_unlock(&pers_lock);

        kthread_stop(thread->tsk);
        kfree(thread);
}

This might be a preexisting problem, because the call site in dm-raid.c, which 
you updated to `md_reap_sync_thread(mddev, false);`, didn't hold the mutex 
anyway.

Am I missing something? Probably, I do.

Otherwise: Move the deref of threadp in md_unregister_thread() into the 
spinlock scope?

Best
  Donald

+       if (reconfig_mutex_held)
+               mddev_lock_nointr(mddev);
        if (!test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery) &&
            !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_REQUESTED, &mddev->recovery) &&
            mddev->degraded != mddev->raid_disks) {
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 34070ab..7ae3d98 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ extern struct md_thread *md_register_thread(
  extern void md_unregister_thread(struct md_thread **threadp);
  extern void md_wakeup_thread(struct md_thread *thread);
  extern void md_check_recovery(struct mddev *mddev);
-extern void md_reap_sync_thread(struct mddev *mddev);
+extern void md_reap_sync_thread(struct mddev *mddev, bool reconfig_mutex_held);
  extern int mddev_init_writes_pending(struct mddev *mddev);
  extern bool md_write_start(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bi);
  extern void md_write_inc(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bi);


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Donald Buczek
buc...@molgen.mpg.de
Tel: +49 30 8413 1433

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