iv/linux
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

fscache: Fix race in fscache_op_complete() due to split atomic_sub & read

Browse Source 
The code in fscache_retrieval_complete is using atomic_sub followed by an
atomic_read:

        atomic_sub(n_pages, &op->n_pages);
        if (atomic_read(&op->n_pages) <= 0)
                fscache_op_complete(&op->op, true);

This causes two threads doing a decrement of n_pages to race with each
other seeing the op->refcount 0 at same time - and they end up calling
fscache_op_complete() in both the threads leading to an assertion failure.

Fix this by using atomic_sub_return_relaxed() instead of two calls.  Note
that I'm using 'relaxed' rather than, say, 'release' as there aren't
multiple variables that appear to need ordering across the release.

The oops looks something like:

FS-Cache: Assertion failed
FS-Cache: 0 > 0 is false
...
kernel BUG at /usr/src/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/operation.c:449!
...
Workqueue: fscache_operation fscache_op_work_func [fscache]
...
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffc037eacd>] fscache_op_complete+0x10d/0x180 [fscache]
...
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffc1464cf9>] cachefiles_read_copier+0x3a9/0x410 [cachefiles]
 [<ffffffffc037e272>] fscache_op_work_func+0x22/0x50 [fscache]
 [<ffffffff81096da0>] process_one_work+0x150/0x3f0
 [<ffffffff8109751a>] worker_thread+0x11a/0x470
 [<ffffffff81808e59>] ? __schedule+0x359/0x980
 [<ffffffff81097400>] ? rescuer_thread+0x310/0x310
 [<ffffffff8109cdd6>] kthread+0xd6/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8109cd00>] ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60
 [<ffffffff8180d0cf>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
 [<ffffffff8109cd00>] ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60

This seen this in 4.4.x kernels and the same bug affects fscache in latest
upstreams kernels.

Fixes: 1bb4b7f98f ("FS-Cache: The retrieval remaining-pages counter needs to be atomic_t")
Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar Modukuri <kiran.modukuri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
kiran.modukuri 2018-11-26 15:41:48 +00:00 committed by David Howells
parent e6bc06faf6
commit 3f2b7b9035
1 changed files with 1 additions and 2 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

3
include/linux/fscache-cache.h
View File

@ -196,8 +196,7 @@ static inline void fscache_enqueue_retrieval(struct fscache_retrieval *op)
static inline void fscache_retrieval_complete(struct fscache_retrieval *op,
int n_pages)
{
atomic_sub(n_pages, &op->n_pages);
if (atomic_read(&op->n_pages) <= 0)
if (atomic_sub_return_relaxed(n_pages, &op->n_pages) <= 0)
fscache_op_complete(&op->op, false);
}