Re: [PATCH 3/3] btrfs: fix race between mkfs and mount

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 06:39:32PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 11:00:30PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote:
> > In an instrumented testing it is possible that the mount and
> > a newer mkfs.btrfs thread on the same device can race and if the new
> > mkfs.btrfs wins it will free the older fs_devices, then the mount thread
> > will lead to oops.
> > 
> > Thread1						Thread2
> > -------						-------
> > mkfs.btrfs -fq /dev/sdb
> > mount /dev/sdb /btrfs
> > |_btrfs_mount_root()
> >   |_btrfs_scan_one_device(... &fs_devices)
> > 
> > 						mkfs.btrfs -fq /dev/sdb
> > 						|_btrfs_contol_ioctl()
> > 						  |_btrfs_scan_one_device(... &fs_devices)
> > 						    |_::
> > 						      |_btrfs_free_stale_devices()
> > 
> >   |_btrfs_open_devices(fs_devices ..) <-- stale fs_devices.
> > 
> > Fix this with a mutually exclusive flag BTRFS_VOL_FLAG_EXCL_OPS.
> 
> I'm not sure this is the right way to fix it, adding another bit to the
> uuid_mutex and device_list_mutex combo.
> 
> To fix the race between mount and mkfs we can add a bit of logic to the
> device scanning so that mount calling scan will track the purpose and
> mkfs scan will not be allowed to free that device.

Last version of the proposed fix is to extend the uuid_mutex over the
whole mount callback and use it around calls to btrfs_scan_one_device.
That way we'll be sure the mount will always get to the device it
scanned and that will not be freed by the parallel scan.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Filesystem Development]     [Linux NFS]     [Linux NILFS]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux