Btrfs: fix assertion failure during fsync and use of stale transaction
Sometimes when fsync'ing a file we need to log that other inodes exist and when we need to do that we acquire a reference on the inodes and then drop that reference using iput() after logging them. That generally is not a problem except if we end up doing the final iput() (dropping the last reference) on the inode and that inode has a link count of 0, which can happen in a very short time window if the logging path gets a reference on the inode while it's being unlinked. In that case we end up getting the eviction callback, btrfs_evict_inode(), invoked through the iput() call chain which needs to drop all of the inode's items from its subvolume btree, and in order to do that, it needs to join a transaction at the helper function evict_refill_and_join(). However because the task previously started a transaction at the fsync handler, btrfs_sync_file(), it has current->journal_info already pointing to a transaction handle and therefore evict_refill_and_join() will get that transaction handle from btrfs_join_transaction(). From this point on, two different problems can happen: 1) evict_refill_and_join() will often change the transaction handle's block reserve (->block_rsv) and set its ->bytes_reserved field to a value greater than 0. If evict_refill_and_join() never commits the transaction, the eviction handler ends up decreasing the reference count (->use_count) of the transaction handle through the call to btrfs_end_transaction(), and after that point we have a transaction handle with a NULL ->block_rsv (which is the value prior to the transaction join from evict_refill_and_join()) and a ->bytes_reserved value greater than 0. If after the eviction/iput completes the inode logging path hits an error or it decides that it must fallback to a transaction commit, the btrfs fsync handle, btrfs_sync_file(), gets a non-zero value from btrfs_log_dentry_safe(), and because of that non-zero value it tries to commit the transaction using a handle with a NULL ->block_rsv and a non-zero ->bytes_reserved value. This makes the transaction commit hit an assertion failure at btrfs_trans_release_metadata() because ->bytes_reserved is not zero but the ->block_rsv is NULL. The produced stack trace for that is like the following: [192922.917158] assertion failed: !trans->bytes_reserved, file: fs/btrfs/transaction.c, line: 816 [192922.917553] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [192922.917922] kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/ctree.h:3532! [192922.918310] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PTI [192922.918666] CPU: 2 PID: 883 Comm: fsstress Tainted: G W 5.1.4-btrfs-next-47 #1 [192922.919035] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.11.2-0-gf9626ccb91-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 [192922.919801] RIP: 0010:assfail.constprop.25+0x18/0x1a [btrfs] (...) [192922.920925] RSP: 0018:ffffaebdc8a27da8 EFLAGS: 00010286 [192922.921315] RAX: 0000000000000051 RBX: ffff95c9c16a41c0 RCX: 0000000000000000 [192922.921692] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff95cab6b16838 RDI: ffff95cab6b16838 [192922.922066] RBP: ffff95c9c16a41c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [192922.922442] R10: ffffaebdc8a27e70 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff95ca731a0980 [192922.922820] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff95ca84c73338 R15: ffff95ca731a0ea8 [192922.923200] FS: 00007f337eda4e80(0000) GS:ffff95cab6b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [192922.923579] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [192922.923948] CR2: 00007f337edad000 CR3: 00000001e00f6002 CR4: 00000000003606e0 [192922.924329] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [192922.924711] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [192922.925105] Call Trace: [192922.925505] btrfs_trans_release_metadata+0x10c/0x170 [btrfs] [192922.925911] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x3e/0xaf0 [btrfs] [192922.926324] btrfs_sync_file+0x44c/0x490 [btrfs] [192922.926731] do_fsync+0x38/0x60 [192922.927138] __x64_sys_fdatasync+0x13/0x20 [192922.927543] do_syscall_64+0x60/0x1c0 [192922.927939] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe (...) [192922.934077] ---[ end trace f00808b12068168f ]--- 2) If evict_refill_and_join() decides to commit the transaction, it will be able to do it, since the nested transaction join only increments the transaction handle's ->use_count reference counter and it does not prevent the transaction from getting committed. This means that after eviction completes, the fsync logging path will be using a transaction handle that refers to an already committed transaction. What happens when using such a stale transaction can be unpredictable, we are at least having a use-after-free on the transaction handle itself, since the transaction commit will call kmem_cache_free() against the handle regardless of its ->use_count value, or we can end up silently losing all the updates to the log tree after that iput() in the logging path, or using a transaction handle that in the meanwhile was allocated to another task for a new transaction, etc, pretty much unpredictable what can happen. In order to fix both of them, instead of using iput() during logging, use btrfs_add_delayed_iput(), so that the logging path of fsync never drops the last reference on an inode, that step is offloaded to a safe context (usually the cleaner kthread). The assertion failure issue was sporadically triggered by the test case generic/475 from fstests, which loads the dm error target while fsstress is running, which lead to fsync failing while logging inodes with -EIO errors and then trying later to commit the transaction, triggering the assertion failure. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+ Reviewed-by:Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by:
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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