[PATCH] libxfs: fix call_rcu crash when unmounting the fake mount in mkfs

Darrick J. Wong
2021-10-05T22:31:58Z

From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

In commit a6fb6abe, we simplified the process by which mkfs.xfs computes
the minimum log size calculation by creating a dummy xfs_mount with the
draft superblock image, using the dummy to compute the log geometry, and
then unmounting the dummy.

Note that creating a dummy mount with no data device is supported by
libxfs, though with the caveat that we don't set up any perag structures
at all. Up until this point this has worked perfectly well since free()
(and hence kmem_free()) are perfectly happy to ignore NULL pointers.

Unfortunately, this will cause problems with the upcoming patch to shift
per-AG setup and teardown to libxfs because call_rcu in the liburcu
library actually tries to access the rcu_head of the passed-in perag
structure, but they're all NULL in the dummy mount case. IOWs,
xfs_free_perag requires that every AG have a per-AG structure, and it's
too late to change the 5.14 kernel libxfs now, so work around this by
altering libxfs_mount to remember when it has initialized the perag
structures and libxfs_umount to skip freeing them when the flag isn't
set.

Just to be clear: This fault has no user-visible consequences right now;
it's a fixup to avoid problems in the libxfs sync series for 5.14.

Fixes: a6fb6abe ("mkfs: simplify minimum log size calculation")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
---
include/xfs_mount.h | 1 +
libxfs/init.c | 13 ++++++++++---
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/xfs_mount.h b/include/xfs_mount.h
index 2f320880..9e43cd23 100644
--- a/include/xfs_mount.h
+++ b/include/xfs_mount.h
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ xfs_perag_resv(
#define LIBXFS_MOUNT_COMPAT_ATTR 0x0008
#define LIBXFS_MOUNT_ATTR2 0x0010
#define LIBXFS_MOUNT_WANT_CORRUPTED 0x0020
+#define LIBXFS_MOUNT_PERAG_DATA_LOADED 0x0040

#define LIBXFS_BHASHSIZE(sbp) (1<<10)

diff --git a/libxfs/init.c b/libxfs/init.c
index 17fc1102..d0753ce5 100644
--- a/libxfs/init.c
+++ b/libxfs/init.c
@@ -912,6 +912,7 @@ libxfs_mount(
progname);
exit(1);
}
+ mp->m_flags |= LIBXFS_MOUNT_PERAG_DATA_LOADED;

return mp;
}
@@ -1031,9 +1032,15 @@ libxfs_umount(
libxfs_bcache_purge();
error = libxfs_flush_mount(mp);

- for (agno = 0; agno < mp->m_maxagi; agno++) {
- pag = radix_tree_delete(&mp->m_perag_tree, agno);
- kmem_free(pag);
+ /*
+ * Only try to free the per-AG structures if we set them up in the
+ * first place.
+ */
+ if (mp->m_flags & LIBXFS_MOUNT_PERAG_DATA_LOADED) {
+ for (agno = 0; agno < mp->m_maxagi; agno++) {
+ pag = radix_tree_delete(&mp->m_perag_tree, agno);
+ kmem_free(pag);
+ }
}

kmem_free(mp->m_attr_geo);