Re: BUG: reiserfs+acl+quota deadlock

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> Tried the attached patch but it changed nothing, I trying to create
> a new file as a user whose quota grace time has ran out will still
> cause everything accessing the users homedir (the one with the quota)
> to hang in D state.
> 
> Also note that the bug I reported only exists when acl is also
> enabled (does not have to be used). And although my kernel is not
> built with debug (or reiserfs debug) support, I don't get any
> oopses or reiserfs errors.. it just hangs.
  Oops, sorry. I forgot to mount the fs with ACL mount option and so I
was not able to reproduce the hang. My fault, your bug is a different
problem. Now it hangs also for me so I can debug it :)

								Honza

> On K, 2005-08-10 at 15:00 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> >   Hello,
> > 
> > > I've already reported a similiar bug to the one I found now
> > > and that was fixed by:
> > > "[PATCH] reiserfs: fix deadlock in inode creation failure path w/
> > > default ACL"
> > > 
> > > This bug is similiar in effect but has some differences in how
> > > to trigger it. The end effect will be just like with the other
> > > bug that the affected directory will be unaccessible to any user
> > > or process.
> > > 
> > > So here's the way to reproduce it, as minimal as I could get it:
> > > 
> > > You need reiserfs, quota and acl support in kernel.
> > > you also need quota tools (edquota, quotaon, quotacheck), I used
> > > linuxquota 3.12.
> > > 
> > > # cd /mnt
> > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=50
> > > 50+0 records in
> > > 50+0 records out
> > > # mkreiserfs -f test >/dev/null
> > > mkreiserfs 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com)
> > > 
> > > test is not a block special device
> > > Continue (y/n):y
> > > # mkdir mpoint
> > > # mount test mpoint -o loop,acl,usrquota
> > > # mkdir mpoint/user1
> > > # useradd -d /mnt/mpoint/user1 user1     # may also use existing user
> > > # chown user1 mpoint/user1
> > > # quotacheck -v mpoint                   # initializes quota file
> > > # edquota user1
> > > ---- set soft block limit to 1000, hard limit to 4000 ----
> > > # edquota -t
> > > ---- set the grace periods to something small: 1minutes ---
> > > # quotaon mpoint
> > > # ## at this point "repquota -a" should show the quota for user1
> > > # su user1
> > > # cd
> > > # ## now we are in user1 home dir as user1
> > > # cat /dev/zero > file1
> > > loop2: warning, user block quota exceeded.
> > > loop2: write failed, user block limit reached.
> > > cat: write error: No space left on device
> > > --- now we wait till the grace period expires (repquota -a) ----
> > > # cat "" > otherfile
> > > loop2: write failed, user block quota exceeded too long.
> > > ---- and it will hang forever ----
> > > # ## /mnt/mpoint can still be accessed, but /mnt/mpoint/user1 can't
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I tested this on an -mm patchset kernel (2.6.13-rc5-mm1), but I
> > > discovered the bug in my server which runs plain 2.6.12 with the
> > > patch from Jeff Mahoney for the first reiserfs+acl bug.
> > > 
> > > The main difference between the two bugs is that the first one requires
> > > the existance of a default acl, this one does not, but it does require
> > > acl to be enabled.
> >   This seems to be the same problem as bug #4771 that I've just fix. Can
> > you try attached patch please?
> >   Andrew, can you include the patch into -mm if ReiserFS guys won't object?
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SuSE CR Labs
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