Re: [PATCH 2/2] cgroup: Use separate work structs on css release path

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri May 27 2022 - 13:23:54 EST


On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 06:54:29PM +0200, Michal Koutný wrote:
> Hello Tadeusz.
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 09:39:20AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As far as I can see we are trying to test the same thing suggested by Tejun.
> > I just sent a test request to try this:
> > https://github.com/tstruk/linux/commit/master
>
> Yup, I've added few more prints to get more fine-grained resolution.
> Also, I decided to use ftrace printk not to interfere with timing too
> much (due to the original race hypothesis).
>
> > Let me know if you have any more tests to run and I will hold off until
> > you are done.
>
> My latest attempt is [1] (tip 5500e05d82fd5b5db2203eedb3f786857d3ccbea).
>
> So far, I'm not convinced, I extract the complete ftrace buffer from the
> syzbot runs, so I'm not drawing any conclusions from the traces I've
> got. I'm not going to continue today. You may have more luck with your
> plain printk (if it's just imbalance and it avoids printk locking
> sensitive paths).

At least for triaging, it may be easier to use bpftrace to attach kprobes to
the get/put functions with the right filter and record the kstack counts.

Thanks.

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tejun