Re: BUG: enabling psacct breaks fsfreeze

From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Nov 01 2012 - 05:37:14 EST


On Wed 31-10-12 13:46:00, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> thanks for the reply, sure, I'll gather and post requested info.
> One more note before that, the problem is with psacct, not audit
> - psacct if I'm not mistaken (and as opposed to audit) doesn't
> use any userspace, kernel dumps information directly to fs,
> which might the reason for deadlock..
Ah, right. Now I looked into the right code and I can see what's the
problem. I'll see what we could do about that... So far I don't have a
better idea than just dropping accounting records that should be written to
frozen filesystem (as you have nowhere to write those records to).

Honza

> > > Should more debugging information be needed, I'll be glad to provide whatever I can..
> > Thanks for report. Hum, I'm not sure how the deadlock can happen because
> > AFAIU audit sends a message via netlink to userspace and whatever audit
> > daemon does with it is its private thing. Can you please run:
> > echo w >/proc/sysrq-trigger
> > after the machine deadlocks and then take dmesg and attach it here? You'll
> > have to have the shell prepared and use serial console / netconsole to gather
> > dmesg or try your luck with copying via ssh / netcat.
> >
> > Honza
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> > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> > SUSE Labs, CR
> >
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