ef1e68236b
There are reports from tree-checker that detects corrupted nodes,
without any obvious pattern so possibly an overwrite in memory.
After some debugging it turns out there's a race when reading an extent
buffer the uptodate status can be missed.
To prevent concurrent reads for the same extent buffer,
read_extent_buffer_pages() performs these checks:
/* (1) */
if (test_bit(EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE, &eb->bflags))
return 0;
/* (2) */
if (test_and_set_bit(EXTENT_BUFFER_READING, &eb->bflags))
goto done;
At this point, it seems safe to start the actual read operation. Once
that completes, end_bbio_meta_read() does
/* (3) */
set_extent_buffer_uptodate(eb);
/* (4) */
clear_bit(EXTENT_BUFFER_READING, &eb->bflags);
Normally, this is enough to ensure only one read happens, and all other
callers wait for it to finish before returning. Unfortunately, there is
a racey interleaving:
Thread A | Thread B | Thread C
---------+----------+---------
(1) | |
| (1) |
(2) | |
(3) | |
(4) | |
| (2) |
| | (1)
When this happens, thread B kicks of an unnecessary read. Worse, thread
C will see UPTODATE set and return immediately, while the read from
thread B is still in progress. This race could result in tree-checker
errors like this as the extent buffer is concurrently modified:
BTRFS critical (device dm-0): corrupted node, root=256
block=8550954455682405139 owner mismatch, have 11858205567642294356
expect [256, 18446744073709551360]
Fix it by testing UPTODATE again after setting the READING bit, and if
it's been set, skip the unnecessary read.
Fixes: d7172f52e993 ("btrfs: use per-buffer locking for extent_buffer reading")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/CAHk-=whNdMaN9ntZ47XRKP6DBes2E5w7fi-0U3H2+PS18p+Pzw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/f51a6d5d7432455a6a858d51b49ecac183e0bbc9.1706312914.git.wqu@suse.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/c7241ea4-fcc6-48d2-98c8-b5ea790d6c89@gmx.com/
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.5+
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Tavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ minor update of changelog ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.