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Zhihao Cheng 9a9dc60da7 fs-writeback: writeback_sb_inodes:Recalculate 'wrote' according skipped pages
commit 68f4c6eba7 upstream.

Commit 505a666ee3 ("writeback: plug writeback in wb_writeback() and
writeback_inodes_wb()") has us holding a plug during wb_writeback, which
may cause a potential ABBA dead lock:

    wb_writeback		fat_file_fsync
blk_start_plug(&plug)
for (;;) {
  iter i-1: some reqs have been added into plug->mq_list  // LOCK A
  iter i:
    progress = __writeback_inodes_wb(wb, work)
    . writeback_sb_inodes // fat's bdev
    .   __writeback_single_inode
    .   . generic_writepages
    .   .   __block_write_full_page
    .   .   . . 	    __generic_file_fsync
    .   .   . . 	      sync_inode_metadata
    .   .   . . 	        writeback_single_inode
    .   .   . . 		  __writeback_single_inode
    .   .   . . 		    fat_write_inode
    .   .   . . 		      __fat_write_inode
    .   .   . . 		        sync_dirty_buffer	// fat's bdev
    .   .   . . 			  lock_buffer(bh)	// LOCK B
    .   .   . . 			    submit_bh
    .   .   . . 			      blk_mq_get_tag	// LOCK A
    .   .   . trylock_buffer(bh)  // LOCK B
    .   .   .   redirty_page_for_writepage
    .   .   .     wbc->pages_skipped++
    .   .   --wbc->nr_to_write
    .   wrote += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write  // wrote > 0
    .   requeue_inode
    .     redirty_tail_locked
    if (progress)    // progress > 0
      continue;
  iter i+1:
      queue_io
      // similar process with iter i, infinite for-loop !
}
blk_finish_plug(&plug)   // flush plug won't be called

Above process triggers a hungtask like:
[  399.044861] INFO: task bb:2607 blocked for more than 30 seconds.
[  399.046824]       Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1-00005-gefae4d9eb6a2-dirty
[  399.051539] task:bb              state:D stack:    0 pid: 2607 ppid:
2426 flags:0x00004000
[  399.051556] Call Trace:
[  399.051570]  __schedule+0x480/0x1050
[  399.051592]  schedule+0x92/0x1a0
[  399.051602]  io_schedule+0x22/0x50
[  399.051613]  blk_mq_get_tag+0x1d3/0x3c0
[  399.051640]  __blk_mq_alloc_requests+0x21d/0x3f0
[  399.051657]  blk_mq_submit_bio+0x68d/0xca0
[  399.051674]  __submit_bio+0x1b5/0x2d0
[  399.051708]  submit_bio_noacct+0x34e/0x720
[  399.051718]  submit_bio+0x3b/0x150
[  399.051725]  submit_bh_wbc+0x161/0x230
[  399.051734]  __sync_dirty_buffer+0xd1/0x420
[  399.051744]  sync_dirty_buffer+0x17/0x20
[  399.051750]  __fat_write_inode+0x289/0x310
[  399.051766]  fat_write_inode+0x2a/0xa0
[  399.051783]  __writeback_single_inode+0x53c/0x6f0
[  399.051795]  writeback_single_inode+0x145/0x200
[  399.051803]  sync_inode_metadata+0x45/0x70
[  399.051856]  __generic_file_fsync+0xa3/0x150
[  399.051880]  fat_file_fsync+0x1d/0x80
[  399.051895]  vfs_fsync_range+0x40/0xb0
[  399.051929]  __x64_sys_fsync+0x18/0x30

In my test, 'need_resched()' (which is imported by 590dca3a71 "fs-writeback:
unplug before cond_resched in writeback_sb_inodes") in function
'writeback_sb_inodes()' seldom comes true, unless cond_resched() is deleted
from write_cache_pages().

Fix it by correcting wrote number according number of skipped pages
in writeback_sb_inodes().

Goto Link to find a reproducer.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215837
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220510133805.1988292-1-chengzhihao1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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