Re: Question about LTS 4.19 patch "89047634f5ce NFS: Don't interrupt file writeout due to fatal errors"

[ChenXiaoSong]

On 2023/10/30 22:56, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> A refactoring is by definition a change that does not affect code
> behaviour. It is obvious that this was never intended to be such a
> patch.
>
> The reason that the bug is occurring in 4.19.x, and not in the latest
> kernels, is because the former is missing another bugfix (one which
> actually is missing a "Fixes:" tag).
>
> Can you therefore please check if applying commit 22876f540bdf ("NFS:
> Don't call generic_error_remove_page() while holding locks") fixes the
> issue.
>
> Note that the latter patch is needed in any case in order to fix a read
> deadlock (as indicated on the label).
>
> Thanks,
>    Trond
After applying commit 22876f540bdf ("NFS: Don't call 
generic_error_remove_page() while holding locks"), I encountered an 
issue of infinite loop:

write ... nfs_updatepage nfs_writepage_setup nfs_setup_write_request 
nfs_try_to_update_request nfs_wb_page if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) 
// true nfs_writepage_locked // return 0 nfs_do_writepage // return 0 
nfs_page_async_flush // return 0 nfs_error_is_fatal_on_server 
nfs_write_error_remove_page SetPageError // instead of 
generic_error_remove_page // loop begin if 
(clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) // false if (!PagePrivate(page)) // 
false ret = nfs_commit_inode = 0 // loop again, never quit

before applying commit 22876f540bdf ("NFS: Don't call 
generic_error_remove_page() while holding locks"), 
generic_error_remove_page() will clear PG_private, and infinite loop 
will never happen:

generic_error_remove_page truncate_inode_page truncate_cleanup_page 
do_invalidatepage nfs_invalidate_page nfs_wb_page_cancel 
nfs_inode_remove_request ClearPagePrivate(head->wb_page)

If applying this patch, are other patches required? And I cannot 
reproducethe read deadlock bug that the patch want to fix, are there 
specific conditions required to reproduce this read deadlock bug?