Patch "xfs: fix COW writeback race" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xfs: fix COW writeback race

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xfs-fix-cow-writeback-race.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From hch@lst.de  Thu Feb  2 11:15:22 2017
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Thu,  2 Feb 2017 08:56:06 +0100
Subject: xfs: fix COW writeback race
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Message-ID: <1486022171-8076-15-git-send-email-hch@lst.de>

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

commit d2b3964a0780d2d2994eba57f950d6c9fe489ed8 upstream.

Due to the way how xfs_iomap_write_allocate tries to convert the whole
found extents from delalloc to real space we can run into a race
condition with multiple threads doing writes to this same extent.
For the non-COW case that is harmless as the only thing that can happen
is that we call xfs_bmapi_write on an extent that has already been
converted to a real allocation.  For COW writes where we move the extent
from the COW to the data fork after I/O completion the race is, however,
not quite as harmless.  In the worst case we are now calling
xfs_bmapi_write on a region that contains hole in the COW work, which
will trip up an assert in debug builds or lead to file system corruption
in non-debug builds.  This seems to be reproducible with workloads of
small O_DSYNC write, although so far I've not managed to come up with
a with an isolated reproducer.

The fix for the issue is relatively simple:  tell xfs_bmapi_write
that we are only asked to convert delayed allocations and skip holes
in that case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.h |    6 +++++-
 fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c       |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
@@ -4607,8 +4607,6 @@ xfs_bmapi_write(
 	int			n;		/* current extent index */
 	xfs_fileoff_t		obno;		/* old block number (offset) */
 	int			whichfork;	/* data or attr fork */
-	char			inhole;		/* current location is hole in file */
-	char			wasdelay;	/* old extent was delayed */
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
 	xfs_fileoff_t		orig_bno;	/* original block number value */
@@ -4694,22 +4692,44 @@ xfs_bmapi_write(
 	bma.firstblock = firstblock;
 
 	while (bno < end && n < *nmap) {
-		inhole = eof || bma.got.br_startoff > bno;
-		wasdelay = !inhole && isnullstartblock(bma.got.br_startblock);
+		bool			need_alloc = false, wasdelay = false;
 
-		/*
-		 * Make sure we only reflink into a hole.
-		 */
-		if (flags & XFS_BMAPI_REMAP)
-			ASSERT(inhole);
-		if (flags & XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK)
-			ASSERT(!inhole);
+		/* in hole or beyoned EOF? */
+		if (eof || bma.got.br_startoff > bno) {
+			if (flags & XFS_BMAPI_DELALLOC) {
+				/*
+				 * For the COW fork we can reasonably get a
+				 * request for converting an extent that races
+				 * with other threads already having converted
+				 * part of it, as there converting COW to
+				 * regular blocks is not protected using the
+				 * IOLOCK.
+				 */
+				ASSERT(flags & XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK);
+				if (!(flags & XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK)) {
+					error = -EIO;
+					goto error0;
+				}
+
+				if (eof || bno >= end)
+					break;
+			} else {
+				need_alloc = true;
+			}
+		} else {
+			/*
+			 * Make sure we only reflink into a hole.
+			 */
+			ASSERT(!(flags & XFS_BMAPI_REMAP));
+			if (isnullstartblock(bma.got.br_startblock))
+				wasdelay = true;
+		}
 
 		/*
 		 * First, deal with the hole before the allocated space
 		 * that we found, if any.
 		 */
-		if (inhole || wasdelay) {
+		if (need_alloc || wasdelay) {
 			bma.eof = eof;
 			bma.conv = !!(flags & XFS_BMAPI_CONVERT);
 			bma.wasdel = wasdelay;
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.h
@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ struct xfs_extent_free_item
 /* Map something in the CoW fork. */
 #define XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK	0x200
 
+/* Only convert delalloc space, don't allocate entirely new extents */
+#define XFS_BMAPI_DELALLOC	0x400
+
 #define XFS_BMAPI_FLAGS \
 	{ XFS_BMAPI_ENTIRE,	"ENTIRE" }, \
 	{ XFS_BMAPI_METADATA,	"METADATA" }, \
@@ -120,7 +123,8 @@ struct xfs_extent_free_item
 	{ XFS_BMAPI_CONVERT,	"CONVERT" }, \
 	{ XFS_BMAPI_ZERO,	"ZERO" }, \
 	{ XFS_BMAPI_REMAP,	"REMAP" }, \
-	{ XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK,	"COWFORK" }
+	{ XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK,	"COWFORK" }, \
+	{ XFS_BMAPI_DELALLOC,	"DELALLOC" }
 
 
 static inline int xfs_bmapi_aflag(int w)
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ xfs_iomap_write_allocate(
 	xfs_trans_t	*tp;
 	int		nimaps;
 	int		error = 0;
-	int		flags = 0;
+	int		flags = XFS_BMAPI_DELALLOC;
 	int		nres;
 
 	if (whichfork == XFS_COW_FORK)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@lst.de are

queue-4.9/xfs-don-t-rely-on-total-in-xfs_alloc_space_available.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-replace-xfs_mode_to_ftype-table-with-switch-statement.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-bogus-minleft-manipulations.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-cow-writeback-race.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-sanity-check-inode-mode-when-creating-new-dentry.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-extsize-hints-are-not-unlikely-in-xfs_bmap_btalloc.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-bump-up-reserved-blocks-in-xfs_alloc_set_aside.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-add-missing-include-dependencies-to-xfs_dir2.h.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-bmv_count-confusion-w-shared-extents.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-adjust-allocation-length-in-xfs_alloc_space_available.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-verify-dirblocklog-correctly.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-xfs_mode_to_ftype-prototype.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-clear-_xbf_pages-from-buffers-when-readahead-page.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-remove-racy-hasattr-check-from-attr-ops.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-make-the-assert-condition-likely.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-sanity-check-directory-inode-di_size.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-don-t-print-warnings-when-xfs_log_force-fails.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-don-t-wrap-id-in-xfs_dq_get_next_id.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-sanity-check-inode-di_mode.patch