Btrfs: eliminate races in worker stopping code

The current implementation of worker threads in Btrfs has races in
worker stopping code, which cause all kinds of panics and lockups when
running btrfs/011 xfstest in a loop.  The problem is that
btrfs_stop_workers is unsynchronized with respect to check_idle_worker,
check_busy_worker and __btrfs_start_workers.

E.g., check_idle_worker race flow:

       btrfs_stop_workers():            check_idle_worker(aworker):
- grabs the lock
- splices the idle list into the
  working list
- removes the first worker from the
  working list
- releases the lock to wait for
  its kthread's completion
                                  - grabs the lock
                                  - if aworker is on the working list,
                                    moves aworker from the working list
                                    to the idle list
                                  - releases the lock
- grabs the lock
- puts the worker
- removes the second worker from the
  working list
                              ......
        btrfs_stop_workers returns, aworker is on the idle list
                 FS is umounted, memory is freed
                              ......
              aworker is waken up, fireworks ensue

With this applied, I wasn't able to trigger the problem in 48 hours,
whereas previously I could reliably reproduce at least one of these
races within an hour.

Reported-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
index 58b7d14..08cc08f 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ static void check_idle_worker(struct btrfs_worker_thread *worker)
 		worker->idle = 1;
 
 		/* the list may be empty if the worker is just starting */
-		if (!list_empty(&worker->worker_list)) {
+		if (!list_empty(&worker->worker_list) &&
+		    !worker->workers->stopping) {
 			list_move(&worker->worker_list,
 				 &worker->workers->idle_list);
 		}
@@ -127,7 +128,8 @@ static void check_busy_worker(struct btrfs_worker_thread *worker)
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->workers->lock, flags);
 		worker->idle = 0;
 
-		if (!list_empty(&worker->worker_list)) {
+		if (!list_empty(&worker->worker_list) &&
+		    !worker->workers->stopping) {
 			list_move_tail(&worker->worker_list,
 				      &worker->workers->worker_list);
 		}
@@ -412,6 +414,7 @@ void btrfs_stop_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers)
 	int can_stop;
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&workers->lock);
+	workers->stopping = 1;
 	list_splice_init(&workers->idle_list, &workers->worker_list);
 	while (!list_empty(&workers->worker_list)) {
 		cur = workers->worker_list.next;
@@ -455,6 +458,7 @@ void btrfs_init_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers, char *name, int max,
 	workers->ordered = 0;
 	workers->atomic_start_pending = 0;
 	workers->atomic_worker_start = async_helper;
+	workers->stopping = 0;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -480,15 +484,19 @@ static int __btrfs_start_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers)
 	atomic_set(&worker->num_pending, 0);
 	atomic_set(&worker->refs, 1);
 	worker->workers = workers;
-	worker->task = kthread_run(worker_loop, worker,
-				   "btrfs-%s-%d", workers->name,
-				   workers->num_workers + 1);
+	worker->task = kthread_create(worker_loop, worker,
+				      "btrfs-%s-%d", workers->name,
+				      workers->num_workers + 1);
 	if (IS_ERR(worker->task)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(worker->task);
-		kfree(worker);
 		goto fail;
 	}
+
 	spin_lock_irq(&workers->lock);
+	if (workers->stopping) {
+		spin_unlock_irq(&workers->lock);
+		goto fail_kthread;
+	}
 	list_add_tail(&worker->worker_list, &workers->idle_list);
 	worker->idle = 1;
 	workers->num_workers++;
@@ -496,8 +504,13 @@ static int __btrfs_start_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers)
 	WARN_ON(workers->num_workers_starting < 0);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&workers->lock);
 
+	wake_up_process(worker->task);
 	return 0;
+
+fail_kthread:
+	kthread_stop(worker->task);
 fail:
+	kfree(worker);
 	spin_lock_irq(&workers->lock);
 	workers->num_workers_starting--;
 	spin_unlock_irq(&workers->lock);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
index 063698b..1f26792 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ struct btrfs_workers {
 
 	/* extra name for this worker, used for current->name */
 	char *name;
+
+	int stopping;
 };
 
 void btrfs_queue_worker(struct btrfs_workers *workers, struct btrfs_work *work);