[PATCH] fs,block: get holder during claim

Christian Brauner
2024-03-15T13:23:31Z

Now that we open block devices as files we need to deal with the
realities that closing is a deferred operation. An operation on the
block device such as e.g., freeze, thaw, or removal that runs
concurrently with umount, tries to acquire a stable reference on the
holder. The holder might already be gone though. Make that reliable by
grabbing a passive reference to the holder during bdev_open() and
releasing it during bdev_release().

Fixes: f3a608827d1f ("bdev: open block device as files") # mainline only
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZfEQQ9jZZVes0WCZ@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
Hey all,

I ran blktests with nbd enabled which contains a reliable repro for the
issue. Thanks to Christoph for pointing in that direction. The
underlying issue is not reproducible anymore with this patch applied.
xfstests and blktests pass.

Thanks!
Christian
---
block/bdev.c | 7 +++++++
fs/super.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/blkdev.h | 10 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c
index e7adaaf1c219..7a5f611c3d2e 100644
--- a/block/bdev.c
+++ b/block/bdev.c
@@ -583,6 +583,9 @@ static void bd_finish_claiming(struct block_device *bdev, void *holder,
mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_holder_lock);
bd_clear_claiming(whole, holder);
mutex_unlock(&bdev_lock);
+
+ if (hops && hops->get_holder)
+ hops->get_holder(holder);
}

/**
@@ -605,6 +608,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bd_abort_claiming);
static void bd_end_claim(struct block_device *bdev, void *holder)
{
struct block_device *whole = bdev_whole(bdev);
+ const struct blk_holder_ops *hops = bdev->bd_holder_ops;
bool unblock = false;

/*
@@ -627,6 +631,9 @@ static void bd_end_claim(struct block_device *bdev, void *holder)
whole->bd_holder = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&bdev_lock);

+ if (hops && hops->put_holder)
+ hops->put_holder(holder);
+
/*
* If this was the last claim, remove holder link and unblock evpoll if
* it was a write holder.
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index ee05ab6b37e7..71d9779c42b1 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -1515,11 +1515,29 @@ static int fs_bdev_thaw(struct block_device *bdev)
return error;
}

+static void fs_bdev_super_get(void *data)
+{
+ struct super_block *sb = data;
+
+ spin_lock(&sb_lock);
+ sb->s_count++;
+ spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+}
+
+static void fs_bdev_super_put(void *data)
+{
+ struct super_block *sb = data;
+
+ put_super(sb);
+}
+
const struct blk_holder_ops fs_holder_ops = {
.mark_dead = fs_bdev_mark_dead,
.sync = fs_bdev_sync,
.freeze = fs_bdev_freeze,
.thaw = fs_bdev_thaw,
+ .get_holder = fs_bdev_super_get,
+ .put_holder = fs_bdev_super_put,
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fs_holder_ops);

diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index f9b87c39cab0..c3e8f7cf96be 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1505,6 +1505,16 @@ struct blk_holder_ops {
* Thaw the file system mounted on the block device.
*/
int (*thaw)(struct block_device *bdev);
+
+ /*
+ * If needed, get a reference to the holder.
+ */
+ void (*get_holder)(void *holder);
+
+ /*
+ * Release the holder.
+ */
+ void (*put_holder)(void *holder);
};

/*
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