From: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Subject: [RHEL5.1 PATCH] dlm: can miss clearing resend flag
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:19:56 -0600
Bugzilla: 223522
Message-Id: <20070125151956.GG21980@redhat.com>
Changelog: [dlm] can miss clearing resend flag


bz 223522

A long, complicated sequence of events, beginning with the RESEND flag not
being cleared on an lkb, can result in an unlock never completing.

- lkb on waiters list for remote lookup
- the remote node is both the dir node and the master node, so
  it optimizes the lookup into a request and sends a request
  reply back
- the request reply is saved on the requestqueue to be processed
  after recovery
- recovery runs dlm_recover_waiters_pre() which sets RESEND flag
  so the lookup will be resent after recovery
- end of recovery: process_requestqueue takes saved request reply
  which removes the lkb off the waitesr list, _without_ clearing
  the RESEND flag
- end of recovery: dlm_recover_waiters_post() doesn't do anything
  with the now completed lookup lkb (would usually clear RESEND)
- later, the node unmounts, unlocks this lkb that still has RESEND
  flag set
- the lkb is on the waiters list again, now for unlock, when recovery
  occurs, dlm_recover_waiters_pre() shows the lkb for unlock with RESEND
  set, doesn't do anything since the master still exists
- end of recovery: dlm_recover_waiters_post() takes this lkb off
  the waiters list because it has the RESEND flag set, then reports
  an error because unlocks are never supposed to be handled in
  recover_waiters_post().
- later, the unlock reply is received, doesn't find the lkb on
  the waiters list because recover_waiters_post() has wrongly
  removed it.
- the unlock operation has been lost, and we're left with a
  stray granted lock
- unmount spins waiting for the unlock to complete

The visible evidence of this problem will be a node where gfs umount is
spinning, the dlm waiters list will be empty, and the dlm locks list will
show a granted lock.

The fix is simply to clear the RESEND flag when taking an lkb off the
waiters list.

patch is in upstream gfs2 git tree


Index: linux-rhel5-quilt/fs/dlm/lock.c
===================================================================
--- linux-rhel5-quilt.orig/fs/dlm/lock.c	2007-01-24 15:04:12.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-rhel5-quilt/fs/dlm/lock.c	2007-01-24 15:04:38.000000000 -0600
@@ -754,6 +754,11 @@
 	mutex_unlock(&ls->ls_waiters_mutex);
 }
 
+/* We clear the RESEND flag because we might be taking an lkb off the waiters
+   list as part of process_requestqueue (e.g. a lookup that has an optimized
+   request reply on the requestqueue) between dlm_recover_waiters_pre() which
+   set RESEND and dlm_recover_waiters_post() */
+
 static int _remove_from_waiters(struct dlm_lkb *lkb)
 {
 	int error = 0;
@@ -764,6 +769,7 @@
 		goto out;
 	}
 	lkb->lkb_wait_type = 0;
+	lkb->lkb_flags &= ~DLM_IFL_RESEND;
 	list_del(&lkb->lkb_wait_reply);
 	unhold_lkb(lkb);
  out: