Currently we initialize mark->group only in fsnotify_add_mark_lock().
However we will need to access fsnotify_ops of corresponding group from
fsnotify_put_mark() so we need mark->group initialized earlier. Do that
in fsnotify_init_mark() which has a consequence that once
fsnotify_init_mark() is called on a mark, the mark has to be destroyed
by fsnotify_put_mark().
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

The function is already mostly contained in what
fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group() does. Just update that function to not
select marks when all of them should be destroyed and remove
fsnotify_detach_group_marks().
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

The _flags() suffix in the function name was more confusing than
explaining so just remove it. Also rename the argument from 'flags' to
'type' to better explain what the function expects.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

These helpers are now only a simple assignment and just obfuscate
what is going on. Remove them.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

fanotify wants to drop fsnotify_mark_srcu lock when waiting for response
from userspace so that the whole notification subsystem is not blocked
during that time. This patch provides a framework for safely getting
mark reference for a mark found in the object list which pins the mark
in that list. We can then drop fsnotify_mark_srcu, wait for userspace
response and then safely continue iteration of the object list once we
reaquire fsnotify_mark_srcu.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Currently we queue all marks for destruction on group shutdown and then
destroy them from fsnotify_destroy_group() instead from a worker thread
which is the usual path. However worker can already be processing some
list of marks to destroy so this does not make 100% all marks are really
destroyed by the time group is shut down. This isn't a big problem as
each mark holds group reference and thus group stays partially alive
until all marks are really freed but there's no point in complicating
our lives - just wait for the delayed work to be finished instead.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Instead of removing mark from object list from fsnotify_detach_mark(),
remove the mark when last reference to the mark is dropped. This will
allow fanotify to wait for userspace response to event without having to
hold onto fsnotify_mark_srcu.

To avoid pinning inodes by elevated refcount (and thus e.g. delaying
file deletion) while someone holds mark reference, we detach connector
from the object also from fsnotify_destroy_marks() and not only after
removing last mark from the list as it was now.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Currently we queue mark into a list of marks for destruction in
__fsnotify_free_mark() and keep the last mark reference dangling. After the
worker waits for SRCU period, it drops the last reference to the mark
which frees it. This scheme has the disadvantage that if we hold
reference to a mark and drop and reacquire SRCU lock, the mark can get
freed immediately which is slightly inconvenient and we will need to
avoid this in the future.

Move to a scheme where queueing of mark into a list of marks for
destruction happens when the last reference to the mark is dropped. Also
drop reference to the mark held by group list already when mark is
removed from that list instead of dropping it only from the destruction
worker.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Currently we free fsnotify_mark_connector structure only when inode /
vfsmount is getting freed. This can however impose noticeable memory
overhead when marks get attached to inodes only temporarily. So free the
connector structure once the last mark is detached from the object.
Since notification infrastructure can be working with the connector
under the protection of fsnotify_mark_srcu, we have to be careful and
free the fsnotify_mark_connector only after SRCU period passes.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

So far list of marks attached to an object (inode / vfsmount) was
protected by i_lock or mnt_root->d_lock. This dictates that the list
must be empty before the object can be destroyed although the list is
now anchored in the fsnotify_mark_connector structure. Protect the list
by a spinlock in the fsnotify_mark_connector structure to decouple
lifetime of a list of marks from a lifetime of the object. This also
simplifies the code quite a bit since we don't have to differentiate
between inode and vfsmount lists in quite a few places anymore.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

After removing all the indirection it is clear that

hlist_del_init_rcu(&mark->obj_list);

in fsnotify_destroy_marks() is not needed as the mark gets removed from
the list shortly afterwards in fsnotify_destroy_mark() ->
fsnotify_detach_mark() -> fsnotify_detach_from_object(). Also there is
no problem with mark being visible on object list while we call
fsnotify_destroy_mark() as parallel destruction of marks from several
places is properly handled (as mentioned in the comment in
fsnotify_destroy_marks(). So just remove the list removal and also the
stale comment.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

We lock object list lock in fsnotify_detach_from_object() twice - once
to detach mark and second time to recalculate mask. That is unnecessary
and later it will become problematic as we will free the connector as
soon as there is no mark in it. So move recalculation of fsnotify mask
into the same critical section that is detaching mark.

This also removes recalculation of child dentry flags from
fsnotify_detach_from_object(). That is however fine. Those marks will
get recalculated once some event happens on a child.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

fsnotify_detach_mark() calls fsnotify_destroy_inode_mark() or
fsnotify_destroy_vfsmount_mark() to remove mark from object list. These
two functions are however very similar and differ only in the lock they
use to protect the object list of marks. Simplify the code by removing
the indirection and removing mark from the object list in a common
function.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Instead of passing spinlock into fsnotify_destroy_marks() determine it
directly in that function from the connector type. This will reduce code
churn when changing lock protecting list of marks.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Move locking of a mark list into fsnotify_find_mark(). This reduces code
churn in the following patch changing lock protecting the list.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Move locking of locks protecting a list of marks into
fsnotify_recalc_mask(). This reduces code churn in the following patch
which changes the lock protecting the list of marks.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Move fsnotify_destroy_marks() to be later in the fs/notify/mark.c. It
will need some functions that are declared after its current
declaration. No functional change.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Adding notification mark to object list has been currently done through
fsnotify_add_{inode|vfsmount}_mark() helpers from
fsnotify_add_mark_locked() which call fsnotify_add_mark_list(). Remove
this unnecessary indirection to simplify the code.

Pushing all the locking to fsnotify_add_mark_list() also allows us to
allocate the connector structure with GFP_KERNEL mode.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Currently inode reference is held by fsnotify marks. Change the rules so
that inode reference is held by fsnotify_mark_connector structure
whenever the list is non-empty. This simplifies the code and is more
logical.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Move pointer to inode / vfsmount from mark itself to the
fsnotify_mark_connector structure. This is another step on the path
towards decoupling inode / vfsmount lifetime from notification mark
lifetime.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Currently notification marks are attached to object (inode or vfsmnt) by
a hlist_head in the object. The list is also protected by a spinlock in
the object. So while there is any mark attached to the list of marks,
the object must be pinned in memory (and thus e.g. last iput() deleting
inode cannot happen). Also for list iteration in fsnotify() to work, we
must hold fsnotify_mark_srcu lock so that mark itself and
mark->obj_list.next cannot get freed. Thus we are required to wait for
response to fanotify events from userspace process with
fsnotify_mark_srcu lock held. That causes issues when userspace process
is buggy and does not reply to some event - basically the whole
notification subsystem gets eventually stuck.

So to be able to drop fsnotify_mark_srcu lock while waiting for
response, we have to pin the mark in memory and make sure it stays in
the object list (as removing the mark waiting for response could lead to
lost notification events for groups later in the list). However we don't
want inode reclaim to block on such mark as that would lead to system
just locking up elsewhere.

This commit is the first in the series that paves way towards solving
these conflicting lifetime needs. Instead of anchoring the list of marks
directly in the object, we anchor it in a dedicated structure
(fsnotify_mark_connector) and just point to that structure from the
object. The following commits will also add spinlock protecting the list
and object pointer to the structure.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Add a comment that lifetime of a notification mark is protected by SRCU
and remove a comment about clearing of marks attached to the inode. It
is stale and more uptodate version is at fsnotify_destroy_marks() which
is the function handling this case.
Reviewed-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

There are only two calls sites of fsnotify_duplicate_mark(). Those are
in kernel/audit_tree.c and both are bogus. Vfsmount pointer is unused
for audit tree, inode pointer and group gets set in
fsnotify_add_mark_locked() later anyway, mask and free_mark are already
set in alloc_chunk(). In fact, calling fsnotify_duplicate_mark() is
actively harmful because following fsnotify_add_mark_locked() will leak
group reference by overwriting the group pointer. So just remove the two
calls to fsnotify_duplicate_mark() and the function.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
[PM: line wrapping to fit in 80 chars]
Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

Inotify instance is destroyed when all references to it are dropped.
That not only means that the corresponding file descriptor needs to be
closed but also that all corresponding instance marks are freed (as each
mark holds a reference to the inotify instance).  However marks are
freed only after SRCU period ends which can take some time and thus if
user rapidly creates and frees inotify instances, number of existing
inotify instances can exceed max_user_instances limit although from user
point of view there is always at most one existing instance.  Thus
inotify_init() returns EMFILE error which is hard to justify from user
point of view.  This problem is exposed by LTP inotify06 testcase on
some machines.

We fix the problem by making sure all group marks are properly freed
while destroying inotify instance.  We wait for SRCU period to end in
that path anyway since we have to make sure there is no event being
added to the instance while we are tearing down the instance.  So it
takes only some plumbing to allow for marks to be destroyed in that path
as well and not from a dedicated work item.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: NXiaoguang Wang <wangxg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: NXiaoguang Wang <wangxg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We don't require a dedicated thread for fsnotify cleanup.  Switch it
over to a workqueue job instead that runs on the system_unbound_wq.

In the interest of not thrashing the queued job too often when there are
a lot of marks being removed, we delay the reaper job slightly when
queueing it, to allow several to gather on the list.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Tested-by: NEryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This reverts commit c510eff6 ("fsnotify: destroy marks with
call_srcu instead of dedicated thread").

Eryu reported that he was seeing some OOM kills kick in when running a
testcase that adds and removes inotify marks on a file in a tight loop.

The above commit changed the code to use call_srcu to clean up the
marks.  While that does (in principle) work, the srcu callback job is
limited to cleaning up entries in small batches and only once per jiffy.
It's easily possible to overwhelm that machinery with too many call_srcu
callbacks, and Eryu's reproduer did just that.

There's also another potential problem with using call_srcu here.  While
you can obviously sleep while holding the srcu_read_lock, the callbacks
run under local_bh_disable, so you can't sleep there.

It's possible when putting the last reference to the fsnotify_mark that
we'll end up putting a chain of references including the fsnotify_group,
uid, and associated keys.  While I don't see any obvious ways that that
could occurs, it's probably still best to avoid using call_srcu here
after all.

This patch reverts the above patch.  A later patch will take a different
approach to eliminated the dedicated thread here.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Reported-by: NEryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NEryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

At the time that this code was originally written, call_srcu didn't
exist, so this thread was required to ensure that we waited for that
SRCU grace period to settle before finally freeing the object.

It does exist now however and we can much more efficiently use call_srcu
to handle this.  That also allows us to potentially use srcu_barrier to
ensure that they are all of the callbacks have run before proceeding.
In order to conserve space, we union the rcu_head with the g_list.

This will be necessary for nfsd which will allocate marks from a
dedicated slabcache.  We have to be able to ensure that all of the
objects are destroyed before destroying the cache.  That's fairly
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked() is subtle to use because it temporarily
releases group->mark_mutex.  To avoid future problems with this
function, split it into two.

fsnotify_detach_mark() is the part that needs group->mark_mutex and
fsnotify_free_mark() is the part that must be called outside of
group->mark_mutex.  This way it's much clearer what's going on and we
also avoid some pointless acquisitions of group->mark_mutex.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Free list is used when all marks on given inode / mount should be
destroyed when inode / mount is going away.  However we can free all of
the marks without using a special list with some care.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can race with
fsnotify_destroy_marks() so that when fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked()
drops mark_mutex, a mark from the list iterated by
fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can be freed and thus the next
entry pointer we have cached may become stale and we dereference free
memory.

Fix the problem by first moving marks to free to a special private list
and then always free the first entry in the special list.  This method
is safe even when entries from the list can disappear once we drop the
lock.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Reported-by: NAshish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: NAshish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
Cc: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This reverts commit a2673b6e.

Kinglong Mee reports a memory leak with that patch, and Jan Kara confirms:

 "Thanks for report! You are right that my patch introduces a race
  between fsnotify kthread and fsnotify_destroy_group() which can result
  in leaking inotify event on group destruction.

  I haven't yet decided whether the right fix is not to queue events for
  dying notification group (as that is pointless anyway) or whether we
  should just fix the original problem differently...  Whenever I look
  at fsnotify code mark handling I get lost in the maze of locks, lists,
  and subtle differences between how different notification systems
  handle notification marks :( I'll think about it over night"

and after thinking about it, Jan says:

 "OK, I have looked into the code some more and I found another
  relatively simple way of fixing the original oops.  It will be IMHO
  better than trying to fixup this issue which has more potential for
  breakage.  I'll ask Linus to revert the fsnotify fix he already merged
  and send a new fix"
Reported-by: NKinglong Mee <kinglongmee@gmail.com>
Requested-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can race with
fsnotify_destroy_marks() so when fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked() drops
mark_mutex, a mark from the list iterated by
fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can be freed and we dereference free
memory in the loop there.

Fix the problem by keeping mark_mutex held in
fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked().  The reason why we drop that mutex is that
we need to call a ->freeing_mark() callback which may acquire mark_mutex
again.  To avoid this and similar lock inversion issues, we move the call
to ->freeing_mark() callback to the kthread destroying the mark.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: NAshish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
Suggested-by: NLino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

destroy_list is used to track marks which still need waiting for srcu
period end before they can be freed.  However by the time mark is added to
destroy_list it isn't in group's list of marks anymore and thus we can
reuse fsnotify_mark->g_list for queueing into destroy_list.  This saves
two pointers for each fsnotify_mark.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There's a lot of common code in inode and mount marks handling.  Factor it
out to a common helper function.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fsnotify() needs to merge inode and mount marks lists when notifying
groups about events so that ignore masks from inode marks are reflected
in mount mark notifications and groups are notified in proper order
(according to priorities).

Currently the sorting of the lists done by fsnotify_add_inode_mark() /
fsnotify_add_vfsmount_mark() and fsnotify() differed which resulted
ignore masks not being used in some cases.

Fix the problem by always using the same comparison function when
sorting / merging the mark lists.

Thanks to Heinrich Schuchardt for improvements of my patch.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87721Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: NHeinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Tested-by: NHeinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Do not initialize private_destroy_list twice.  list_replace_init()
already takes care of initializing private_destroy_list.  We don't need
to initialize it with LIST_HEAD() beforehand.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There have been changes in the locking scheme of fsnotify but the
comments in the source code have not been updated yet.  This patch
corrects this.
Signed-off-by: NLino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 04:38:22PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
>
> I finally built and tested a v3.0 kernel with these patches (I know I'm
> SOOOOOO far behind).  Not what I hoped for:
>
> > [  150.937798] VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of tmpfs. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...
> > [  150.945290] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000070
> > [  150.946012] IP: [<ffffffff810ffd58>] shmem_free_inode+0x18/0x50
> > [  150.946012] PGD 2bf9e067 PUD 2bf9f067 PMD 0
> > [  150.946012] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> > [  150.946012] CPU 0
> > [  150.946012] Modules linked in: nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ext4 jbd2 crc16 joydev ata_piix i2c_piix4 pcspkr uinput ipv6 autofs4 usbhid [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
> > [  150.946012]
> > [  150.946012] Pid: 2764, comm: syscall_thrash Not tainted 3.0.0+ #1 Red Hat KVM
> > [  150.946012] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810ffd58>]  [<ffffffff810ffd58>] shmem_free_inode+0x18/0x50
> > [  150.946012] RSP: 0018:ffff88002c2e5df8  EFLAGS: 00010282
> > [  150.946012] RAX: 000000004e370d9f RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88003a029438
> > [  150.946012] RDX: 0000000033630a5f RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88003491c240
> > [  150.946012] RBP: ffff88002c2e5e08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> > [  150.946012] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88003a029428
> > [  150.946012] R13: ffff88003a029428 R14: ffff88003a029428 R15: ffff88003499a610
> > [  150.946012] FS:  00007f5a05420700(0000) GS:ffff88003f600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > [  150.946012] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> > [  150.946012] CR2: 0000000000000070 CR3: 000000002a662000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
> > [  150.946012] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > [  150.946012] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > [  150.946012] Process syscall_thrash (pid: 2764, threadinfo ffff88002c2e4000, task ffff88002bfbc760)
> > [  150.946012] Stack:
> > [  150.946012]  ffff88003a029438 ffff88003a029428 ffff88002c2e5e38 ffffffff81102f76
> > [  150.946012]  ffff88003a029438 ffff88003a029598 ffffffff8160f9c0 ffff88002c221250
> > [  150.946012]  ffff88002c2e5e68 ffffffff8115e9be ffff88002c2e5e68 ffff88003a029438
> > [  150.946012] Call Trace:
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff81102f76>] shmem_evict_inode+0x76/0x130
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff8115e9be>] evict+0x7e/0x170
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff8115ee40>] iput_final+0xd0/0x190
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff8115ef33>] iput+0x33/0x40
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff81180205>] fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked+0x145/0x160
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff81180316>] fsnotify_destroy_mark+0x36/0x50
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff81181937>] sys_inotify_rm_watch+0x77/0xd0
> > [  150.946012]  [<ffffffff815aca52>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > [  150.946012] Code: 67 4a 00 b8 e4 ff ff ff eb aa 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 10 48 89 1c 24 4c 89 64 24 08 48 8b 9f 40 05 00 00
> > [  150.946012]  83 7b 70 00 74 1c 4c 8d a3 80 00 00 00 4c 89 e7 e8 d2 5d 4a
> > [  150.946012] RIP  [<ffffffff810ffd58>] shmem_free_inode+0x18/0x50
> > [  150.946012]  RSP <ffff88002c2e5df8>
> > [  150.946012] CR2: 0000000000000070
>
> Looks at aweful lot like the problem from:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg46101.html
>

I tried to reproduce this bug with your test program, but without success.
However, if I understand correctly, this occurs since we dont hold any locks when
we call iput() in mark_destroy(), right?
With the patches you tested, iput() is also not called within any lock, since the
groups mark_mutex is released temporarily before iput() is called.  This is, since
the original codes behaviour is similar.
However since we now have a mutex as the biggest lock, we can do what you
suggested (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg46107.html) and
call iput() with the mutex held to avoid the race.
The patch below implements this. It uses nested locking to avoid deadlock in case
we do the final iput() on an inode which still holds marks and thus would take
the mutex again when calling fsnotify_inode_delete() in destroy_inode().
Signed-off-by: NLino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

In clear_marks_by_group_flags() the mark list of a group is iterated and the
marks are put on a temporary list.
Since we introduced fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked() we dont need the temp list
any more and are able to remove the marks while the mark list is iterated and
the mark list mutex is held.
Signed-off-by: NLino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

This patch introduces fsnotify_add_mark_locked() and fsnotify_remove_mark_locked()
which are essentially the same as fsnotify_add_mark() and fsnotify_remove_mark() but
assume that the caller has already taken the groups mark mutex.
Signed-off-by: NLino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>