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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:29:13 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>, Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>, Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
Subject:   Re: repeatable ZFS panic: share->excl
Message-ID:  <49CFA1D9.1020604@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090317070440.GE2012@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <20090312175345.Y80227@rust.salford.ac.uk>	<20090312191333.GA97342@hyperion.scode.org>	<49B97617.8010709@freebsd.org> <86r6124f2v.fsf@gmail.com>	<3bbf2fe10903122035i20b2767cod2322c39c6f850ee@mail.gmail.com>	<29C8FA04-D5B1-49B7-ACF0-4185537367B0@baldwin.cx>	<3bbf2fe10903122156u650417f0s5c49b68bdf4ffa07@mail.gmail.com>	<49BA9801.5080505@FreeBSD.org> <49BAA103.2060508@FreeBSD.org> <20090317070440.GE2012@garage.freebsd.pl>

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:08:03PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> John Baldwin wrote:
>>> Yes, I think that is the real bug.  Looking at this further I think
>>> zfs_get_xattrdir() will return the vnode locked if it has to create a
>>> new node via zfs_make_attrdir() but only returns it held and unlocked if
>>> it finds an existing one.  So my new patch is to just fix
>>> zfs_get_xattrdir() to unlock the vnode if it creates a new one like so:
>>>
>>> (Sorry, TBird is probably going to butcher all the whitespace):
>>>
>>> ---
>>> //depot/user/jhb/lock/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_dir.c
>>> +++
>>> /Users/jhb/work/p4/lock/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_dir.c 
>>>
>>> @@ -940,6 +940,7 @@
>>>         /* NB: we already did dmu_tx_wait() if necessary */
>>>         goto top;
>>>     }
>>> +    VOP_UNLOCK(*xvpp, 0);
>>>
>>>     return (error);
>>> }
>>>
>>> A non-butchered version is at www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/zfs_ea.patch.
>> So lulf@ reports success with this patch.  Pawel, can you review it?
> 
> Yes, it works for me too and looks good. The only thing we need to
> change is to check for error beeing 0 before unlocking the vnode.
> The zfs_make_xattrdir() function can still return with EIO, so I'd add
> something like this:
> 
> 	if (error == 0)
> 		VOP_UNLOCK(*xvpp, 0);
> 
> Thank you John for spending time on tracking this one down.

Any estimate on when this can be committed?

I'm waiting to re-enable the extended attribute
archiving support in tar until this is fixed.

Tim





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