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Filipe Manana authored
If we create a snapshot of a snapshot currently being used by a send operation, we can end up with send failing unexpectedly (returning -ENOENT error to user space for example). The following diagram shows how this happens. CPU 1 CPU2 CPU3 btrfs_ioctl_send() (...) create_snapshot() -> creates snapshot of a root used by the send task btrfs_commit_transaction() create_pending_snapshot() __get_inode_info() btrfs_search_slot() btrfs_search_slot_get_root() down_read commit_root_sem get reference on eb of the commit root -> eb with bytenr == X up_read commit_root_sem btrfs_cow_block(root node) btrfs_free_tree_block() -> creates delayed ref to free the extent btrfs_run_delayed_refs() -> runs the delayed ref, adds extent to fs_info->pinned_extents btrfs_finish_extent_commit() unpin_extent_range() -> marks extent as free in the free space cache transaction commit finishes btrfs_start_transaction() (...) btrfs_cow_block() btrfs_alloc_tree_block() btrfs_reserve_extent() -> allocates extent at bytenr == X btrfs_init_new_buffer(bytenr X) btrfs_find_create_tree_block() alloc_extent_buffer(bytenr X) find_extent_buffer(bytenr X) -> returns existing eb, which the send task got (...) -> modifies content of the eb with bytenr == X -> uses an eb that now belongs to some other tree and no more matches the commit root of the snapshot, resuts will be unpredictable The consequences of this race can be various, and can lead to searches in the commit root performed by the send task failing unexpectedly (unable to find inode items, returning -ENOENT to user space, for example) or not failing because an inode item with the same number was added to the tree that reused the metadata extent, in which case send can behave incorrectly in the worst case or just fail later for some reason. Fix this by performing a copy of the commit root's extent buffer when doing a search in the context of a send operation. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4.x: 1fc28d8e: Btrfs: move get root out of btrfs_search_slot to a helper CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4.x: f9ddfd05: Btrfs: remove unused check of skip_locking CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4.x Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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