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rds_rdma_free_op() and rds_atomic_free_op() are reached from the IB
send completion path via
rds_ib_tasklet_fn_send()
rds_ib_send_cqe_handler()
rds_message_put()
rds_message_purge()
rds_rdma_free_op() / rds_atomic_free_op()
which runs in tasklet (softirq) context. Both functions unpin the
user pages of the op with unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(), which uses
set_page_dirty_lock() and thus may take the folio lock and sleep.
Sleeping in softirq context is not allowed and can deadlock or crash.
Dirtying the pages with the non-sleeping set_page_dirty() instead
would just trade one bug for another, as pointed out during review:
the pinned range can be file-backed. rds_pin_pages() pins with
FOLL_LONGTERM, which refuses fs-dax but takes the page-cache pages
of a MAP_SHARED file mapping just fine, and RDS does not restrict
what memory the caller registers as an RDMA destination.
For a file-backed page, set_page_dirty() from a tasklet can take
non-irq-safe filesystem locks (e.g. mapping->i_private_lock and
inode->i_lock in block_dirty_folio()) and deadlock against the task
it interrupted. Without the folio lock, it races with truncation
clearing folio->mapping, which is the race set_page_dirty_lock()
exists to close. The pre-pin_user_pages() version of this code
dirtied pages that way from the tasklet, so that bug is older than
the sleeping unpin.
The page dirtying therefore has to move to process context, not
merely avoid the folio lock. When the final rds_message_put() runs
in atomic context, rds_rdma_free_op() and rds_atomic_free_op() now
leave the op's pages pinned and flag the op. Later, rds_message_put()
hands the message to a work item that unpins the flagged ops' pages
and frees the message from process context. Here,
unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock() is safe outside the atomic context.
Everything else keeps running in the caller's context exactly as
before: the rest of the purge - the zerocopy completion, the socket
put and the MR reference drops - as well as RDMA writes, whose pages
the remote side only reads and which unpin without dirtying,
everything on rds_tcp, and final puts that already happen in process
context (socket close, connection teardown).
Deferring only the unpin means the work item touches nothing but the
pinned pages and the rds module's own memory: it cannot call back
into a transport module, so it changes nothing about the transports'
shutdown and unload ordering. rds_exit() drains any pending unpin
work via destroy_workqueue(rds_wq) before the module goes away.
The Oracle UEK kernel avoids the sleeping unpin by calling
set_page_dirty() directly from the tasklet, which is subject to the
file-backed page problem above, so this deliberately does not follow
UEK here.
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260730041629.3512480-2-achender@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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