btrfs: fix race between page release and a fast fsync
When releasing an extent map, done through the page release callback, we can race with an ongoing fast fsync and cause the fsync to miss a new extent and not log it. The steps for this to happen are the following: 1) A page is dirtied for some inode I; 2) Writeback for that page is triggered by a path other than fsync, for example by the system due to memory pressure; 3) When the ordered extent for the extent (a single 4K page) finishes, we unpin the corresponding extent map and set its generation to N, the current transaction's generation; 4) The btrfs_releasepage() callback is invoked by the system due to memory pressure for that no longer dirty page of inode I; 5) At the same time, some task calls fsync on inode I, joins transaction N, and at btrfs_log_inode() it sees that the inode does not have the full sync flag set, so we proceed with a fast fsync. But before we get into btrfs_log_changed_extents() and lock the inode's extent map tree: 6) Through btrfs_releasepage() we end up at try_release_extent_mapping() and we remove the extent map for the new 4Kb extent, because it is neither pinned anymore nor locked. By calling remove_extent_mapping(), we remove the extent map from the list of modified extents, since the extent map does not have the logging flag set. We unlock the inode's extent map tree; 7) The task doing the fast fsync now enters btrfs_log_changed_extents(), locks the inode's extent map tree and iterates its list of modified extents, which no longer has the 4Kb extent in it, so it does not log the extent; 8) The fsync finishes; 9) Before transaction N is committed, a power failure happens. After replaying the log, the 4K extent of inode I will be missing, since it was not logged due to the race with try_release_extent_mapping(). So fix this by teaching try_release_extent_mapping() to not remove an extent map if it's still in the list of modified extents. Fixes: ff44c6e3 ("Btrfs: do not hold the write_lock on the extent tree while logging") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+ Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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