5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Brian Foster bfoster@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit aabfe57ebaa75841db47ea59091ec3c5a06d2f52 ]
The nr_dentry_negative counter is intended to only account negative dentries that are present on the superblock LRU. Therefore, the LRU add, remove and isolate helpers modify the counter based on whether the dentry is negative, but the shrinker list related helpers do not modify the counter, and the paths that change a dentry between positive and negative only do so if DCACHE_LRU_LIST is set.
The problem with this is that a dentry on a shrinker list still has DCACHE_LRU_LIST set to indicate ->d_lru is in use. The additional DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST flag denotes whether the dentry is on LRU or a shrink related list. Therefore if a relevant operation (i.e. unlink) occurs while a dentry is present on a shrinker list, and the associated codepath only checks for DCACHE_LRU_LIST, then it is technically possible to modify the negative dentry count for a dentry that is off the LRU. Since the shrinker list related helpers do not modify the negative dentry count (because non-LRU dentries should not be included in the count) when the dentry is ultimately removed from the shrinker list, this can cause the negative dentry count to become permanently inaccurate.
This problem can be reproduced via a heavy file create/unlink vs. drop_caches workload. On an 80xcpu system, I start 80 tasks each running a 1k file create/delete loop, and one task spinning on drop_caches. After 10 minutes or so of runtime, the idle/clean cache negative dentry count increases from somewhere in the range of 5-10 entries to several hundred (and increasingly grows beyond nr_dentry_unused).
Tweak the logic in the paths that turn a dentry negative or positive to filter out the case where the dentry is present on a shrink related list. This allows the above workload to maintain an accurate negative dentry count.
Fixes: af0c9af1b3f6 ("fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries") Signed-off-by: Brian Foster bfoster@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703121301.247680-1-bfoster@redhat.com Acked-by: Ian Kent ikent@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com Reviewed-by: Waiman Long longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/dcache.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 9505e5df30b74..c58b5e5cb045d 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -329,7 +329,11 @@ static inline void __d_clear_type_and_inode(struct dentry *dentry) flags &= ~(DCACHE_ENTRY_TYPE | DCACHE_FALLTHRU); WRITE_ONCE(dentry->d_flags, flags); dentry->d_inode = NULL; - if (flags & DCACHE_LRU_LIST) + /* + * The negative counter only tracks dentries on the LRU. Don't inc if + * d_lru is on another list. + */ + if ((flags & (DCACHE_LRU_LIST|DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST)) == DCACHE_LRU_LIST) this_cpu_inc(nr_dentry_negative); }
@@ -1921,9 +1925,11 @@ static void __d_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); /* - * Decrement negative dentry count if it was in the LRU list. + * The negative counter only tracks dentries on the LRU. Don't dec if + * d_lru is on another list. */ - if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_LRU_LIST) + if ((dentry->d_flags & + (DCACHE_LRU_LIST|DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST)) == DCACHE_LRU_LIST) this_cpu_dec(nr_dentry_negative); hlist_add_head(&dentry->d_u.d_alias, &inode->i_dentry); raw_write_seqcount_begin(&dentry->d_seq);