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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
To: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	 Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: don't let shrinker touch extent_maps that are being logged
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:10:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260629-btrfs-skip-logging-v1-1-4e3a28c1acaf@kernel.org> (raw)

The extent map shrinker can free an extent map that is still owned by an
in-flight fsync and still linked on the inode's modified_extents list,
corrupting that list and eventually causing an RCU stall.

btrfs_scan_inode() currently skips EXTENT_FLAG_PINNED maps, then calls
btrfs_remove_extent_mapping() followed by btrfs_free_extent_map():

	if (em->flags & EXTENT_FLAG_PINNED)
		goto next;
	...
	btrfs_remove_extent_mapping(inode, em);
	btrfs_free_extent_map(em);

But btrfs_remove_extent_mapping() deliberately does NOT unlink a map that
has EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING set:

	if (!(em->flags & EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING))
		list_del_init(&em->list);
	remove_em(inode, em);

This sets up a UAF situation where a later fsync() can trip over the
now-freed extent_map still on the modified_extents() list.

Fix it by having the shrinker skip maps that are being logged, the same
way it skips pinned maps. Such a map is owned by the in-flight fsync and
will become reclaimable again once logging clears the flag.

Fixes: 956a17d9d050 ("btrfs: add a shrinker for extent maps")
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
We've started hitting a number of these problems in our fleet. It
seems to mostly happen on ARM64 architecture, but there have been some
WARN_ONs that popped on x86_64 too.
---
 fs/btrfs/extent_map.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c
index fce9c5cc0122..128f7800e101 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c
@@ -1166,7 +1166,13 @@ static long btrfs_scan_inode(struct btrfs_inode *inode, struct btrfs_em_shrink_c
 		em = rb_entry(node, struct extent_map, rb_node);
 		ctx->scanned++;
 
-		if (em->flags & EXTENT_FLAG_PINNED)
+		/*
+		 * Skip extent maps that are pinned or are being logged. The
+		 * i_mmap_lock should prevent this from seeing LOGGING on extent_maps
+		 * directly associated with inode, but em may be associated with
+		 * other, dependent inodes and their locks are not held.
+		 */
+		if (em->flags & (EXTENT_FLAG_PINNED | EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING))
 			goto next;
 
 		/*

---
base-commit: dc59e4fea9d83f03bad6bddf3fa2e52491777482
change-id: 20260629-btrfs-skip-logging-3e31701d9647

Best regards,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>


             reply	other threads:[~2026-06-29 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-29 13:10 Jeff Layton [this message]
2026-06-29 14:19 ` [PATCH] btrfs: don't let shrinker touch extent_maps that are being logged Filipe Manana
2026-06-29 14:56   ` Jeff Layton
2026-06-29 15:06     ` Filipe Manana
2026-06-29 15:47       ` Filipe Manana
2026-06-30 12:28         ` Jeff Layton
2026-06-30 14:06           ` Filipe Manana

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