Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: fix assertion failure during fsync and use of stale transaction

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On 10.09.19 г. 17:26 ч., fdmanana@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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
evict_refill_and_join only ever calls btrfs_join_transaction so it
cannot ever commit the transaction. Let's look into its sole caller,
btrfs_evict_inode, I see 3 cases where transactions handle is involved
in that function:

1. btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_inode - iot calls trans_join +
end_transaction => use_count = 2 -> no commit

2. btrfs_truncate_inode_items -> never calls end/commit transaction

3. btrfs_evict_inode itself only ever calls btrfs_end_transaction on a
handle that's obtained via btrfs_join_transaction, meaning that trans
handle's ->use_count will be 2. This in turn will hit:

 if (refcount_read(&trans->use_count) > 1) {
                  refcount_dec(&trans->use_count);

                  trans->block_rsv = trans->orig_rsv;

                  return 0;

}

in __btrfs_end_transaction. That code is in direct contradiction with
what you describe next? Am I missing something here? If my analysis is
correct this implies case 1) above also cannot happen because
trans->block_rsv is set to NULL in __btrfs_end_transaction only if
use_count == 1.

>    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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.4+
> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 16 ++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
> index 6c8297bcfeb7..1bfd7e34f31e 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
> @@ -4985,7 +4985,7 @@ static int log_conflicting_inodes(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>  						      BTRFS_I(inode),
>  						      LOG_OTHER_INODE_ALL,
>  						      0, LLONG_MAX, ctx);
> -					iput(inode);
> +					btrfs_add_delayed_iput(inode);
>  				}
>  			}
>  			continue;
> @@ -5000,7 +5000,7 @@ static int log_conflicting_inodes(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>  		ret = btrfs_log_inode(trans, root, BTRFS_I(inode),
>  				      LOG_OTHER_INODE, 0, LLONG_MAX, ctx);
>  		if (ret) {
> -			iput(inode);
> +			btrfs_add_delayed_iput(inode);
>  			continue;
>  		}
>  
> @@ -5009,7 +5009,7 @@ static int log_conflicting_inodes(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>  		key.offset = 0;
>  		ret = btrfs_search_slot(NULL, root, &key, path, 0, 0);
>  		if (ret < 0) {
> -			iput(inode);
> +			btrfs_add_delayed_iput(inode);
>  			continue;
>  		}
>  
> @@ -5056,7 +5056,7 @@ static int log_conflicting_inodes(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>  			}
>  			path->slots[0]++;
>  		}
> -		iput(inode);
> +		btrfs_add_delayed_iput(inode);
>  	}
>  
>  	return ret;
> @@ -5689,7 +5689,7 @@ static int log_new_dir_dentries(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>  			}
>  
>  			if (btrfs_inode_in_log(BTRFS_I(di_inode), trans->transid)) {
> -				iput(di_inode);
> +				btrfs_add_delayed_iput(di_inode);
>  				break;
>  			}
>  
> @@ -5701,7 +5701,7 @@ static int log_new_dir_dentries(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>  			if (!ret &&
>  			    btrfs_must_commit_transaction(trans, BTRFS_I(di_inode)))
>  				ret = 1;
> -			iput(di_inode);
> +			btrfs_add_delayed_iput(di_inode);
>  			if (ret)
>  				goto next_dir_inode;
>  			if (ctx->log_new_dentries) {
> @@ -5848,7 +5848,7 @@ static int btrfs_log_all_parents(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>  			if (!ret && ctx && ctx->log_new_dentries)
>  				ret = log_new_dir_dentries(trans, root,
>  						   BTRFS_I(dir_inode), ctx);
> -			iput(dir_inode);
> +			btrfs_add_delayed_iput(dir_inode);
>  			if (ret)
>  				goto out;
>  		}
> @@ -5891,7 +5891,7 @@ static int log_new_ancestors(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>  			ret = btrfs_log_inode(trans, root, BTRFS_I(inode),
>  					      LOG_INODE_EXISTS,
>  					      0, LLONG_MAX, ctx);
> -		iput(inode);
> +		btrfs_add_delayed_iput(inode);
>  		if (ret)
>  			return ret;
>  
> 



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