The kernel is getting hung upon inode writeback. A possible deadlock caused by a 3rd party module named "dtfilter"
Issue
- The kernel is getting hung upon inode writeback. A possible deadlock caused by a 3rd party module named "dtfilter"
[3481104.495210] INFO: task kworker/u16:2:27126 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[3481104.495540] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[3481104.495853] kworker/u16:2 D ffff8e44ffd9ac80 0 27126 2 0x00000080
[3481104.495864] Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-253:5)
[3481104.495867] Call Trace:
[3481104.495876] [<ffffffffacc264d5>] ? __kmalloc+0x55/0x230
[3481104.495885] [<ffffffffc08e402b>] ? QueueItemMemAlloc.isra.0+0x2b/0xa0 [dtrep]
[3481104.495892] [<ffffffffad17eb20>] ? out_of_line_wait_on_atomic_t+0x100/0x100
[3481104.495895] [<ffffffffad180a29>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[3481104.495898] [<ffffffffad17eb31>] bit_wait+0x11/0x50
[3481104.495901] [<ffffffffad17e6a7>] __wait_on_bit+0x67/0x90
[3481104.495919] [<ffffffffacc797a2>] __inode_wait_for_writeback+0xb2/0xf0
[3481104.495924] [<ffffffffacac73a0>] ? wake_bit_function+0x40/0x40
[3481104.495927] [<ffffffffacc7b556>] inode_wait_for_writeback+0x26/0x40
[3481104.495931] [<ffffffffacc685af>] evict+0x9f/0x180
[3481104.495933] [<ffffffffacc689ec>] iput+0xfc/0x190
[3481104.495936] [<ffffffffacc636f8>] __dentry_kill+0x128/0x190
[3481104.495938] [<ffffffffacc63816>] dput+0xb6/0x1a0
[3481104.495953] [<ffffffffc07256e2>] superWriteInodeHook+0x1b2/0x230 [dtfilter]
[3481104.495956] [<ffffffffacc79a2d>] __writeback_single_inode+0x1ad/0x260
[3481104.495958] [<ffffffffacc7a454>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x1c4/0x430
[3481104.495961] [<ffffffffacc7a75f>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x9f/0xd0
[3481104.495963] [<ffffffffacc7ac43>] wb_writeback+0x263/0x2f0
[3481104.495967] [<ffffffffacbca360>] ? bdi_dirty_limit+0x40/0xe0
[3481104.495969] [<ffffffffacc7b73c>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x1cc/0x460
[3481104.495972] [<ffffffffacabe21f>] process_one_work+0x17f/0x440
[3481104.495975] [<ffffffffacabf336>] worker_thread+0x126/0x3c0
[3481104.495977] [<ffffffffacabf210>] ? manage_workers.isra.26+0x2a0/0x2a0
[3481104.495980] [<ffffffffacac61f1>] kthread+0xd1/0xe0
[3481104.495982] [<ffffffffacac6120>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x40/0x40
[3481104.495991] [<ffffffffad18dd37>] ret_from_fork_nospec_begin+0x21/0x21
[3481104.495994] [<ffffffffacac6120>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x40/0x40
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 (kernel-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64)
- The issue could happen with other rhel7 minor releases
- dtfilter whcih is one of modules from the Double-Take product packaged as "Carbonite Availability"
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