[PATCH 4.9 50/78] btrfs: fix space cache memory leak after transaction abort

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-01T17:12:13Z

From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>

commit bbc37d6e475eee8ffa2156ec813efc6bbb43c06d upstream.

If a transaction aborts it can cause a memory leak of the pages array of
a block group's io_ctl structure. The following steps explain how that can
happen:

1) Transaction N is committing, currently in state TRANS_STATE_UNBLOCKED
and it's about to start writing out dirty extent buffers;

2) Transaction N + 1 already started and another task, task A, just called
btrfs_commit_transaction() on it;

3) Block group B was dirtied (extents allocated from it) by transaction
N + 1, so when task A calls btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups(), at the
very beginning of the transaction commit, it starts writeback for the
block group's space cache by calling btrfs_write_out_cache(), which
allocates the pages array for the block group's io_ctl with a call to
io_ctl_init(). Block group A is added to the io_list of transaction
N + 1 by btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups();

4) While transaction N's commit is writing out the extent buffers, it gets
an IO error and aborts transaction N, also setting the file system to
RO mode;

5) Task A has already returned from btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups(), is at
btrfs_commit_transaction() and has set transaction N + 1 state to
TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_START. Immediately after that it checks that the
filesystem was turned to RO mode, due to transaction N's abort, and
jumps to the "cleanup_transaction" label. After that we end up at
btrfs_cleanup_one_transaction() which calls btrfs_cleanup_dirty_bgs().
That helper finds block group B in the transaction's io_list but it
never releases the pages array of the block group's io_ctl, resulting in
a memory leak.

In fact at the point when we are at btrfs_cleanup_dirty_bgs(), the pages
array points to pages that were already released by us at
__btrfs_write_out_cache() through the call to io_ctl_drop_pages(). We end
up freeing the pages array only after waiting for the ordered extent to
complete through btrfs_wait_cache_io(), which calls io_ctl_free() to do
that. But in the transaction abort case we don't wait for the space cache's
ordered extent to complete through a call to btrfs_wait_cache_io(), so
that's why we end up with a memory leak - we wait for the ordered extent
to complete indirectly by shutting down the work queues and waiting for
any jobs in them to complete before returning from close_ctree().

We can solve the leak simply by freeing the pages array right after
releasing the pages (with the call to io_ctl_drop_pages()) at
__btrfs_write_out_cache(), since we will never use it anymore after that
and the pages array points to already released pages at that point, which
is currently not a problem since no one will use it after that, but not a
good practice anyway since it can easily lead to use-after-free issues.

So fix this by freeing the pages array right after releasing the pages at
__btrfs_write_out_cache().

This issue can often be reproduced with test case generic/475 from fstests
and kmemleak can detect it and reports it with the following trace:

unreferenced object 0xffff9bbf009fa600 (size 512):
comm "fsstress", pid 38807, jiffies 4298504428 (age 22.028s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 a0 7c 4d 3d ed ff ff 40 a0 7c 4d 3d ed ff ff ..|M=...@.|M=...
80 a0 7c 4d 3d ed ff ff c0 a0 7c 4d 3d ed ff ff ..|M=.....|M=...
backtrace:
[<00000000f4b5cfe2>] __kmalloc+0x1a8/0x3e0
[<0000000028665e7f>] io_ctl_init+0xa7/0x120 [btrfs]
[<00000000a1f95b2d>] __btrfs_write_out_cache+0x86/0x4a0 [btrfs]
[<00000000207ea1b0>] btrfs_write_out_cache+0x7f/0xf0 [btrfs]
[<00000000af21f534>] btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups+0x27b/0x580 [btrfs]
[<00000000c3c23d44>] btrfs_commit_transaction+0xa6f/0xe70 [btrfs]
[<000000009588930c>] create_subvol+0x581/0x9a0 [btrfs]
[<000000009ef2fd7f>] btrfs_mksubvol+0x3fb/0x4a0 [btrfs]
[<00000000474e5187>] __btrfs_ioctl_snap_create+0x119/0x1a0 [btrfs]
[<00000000708ee349>] btrfs_ioctl_snap_create_v2+0xb0/0xf0 [btrfs]
[<00000000ea60106f>] btrfs_ioctl+0x12c/0x3130 [btrfs]
[<000000005c923d6d>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x83/0xb0
[<0000000043ace2c9>] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x80
[<00000000904efbce>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9+
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 1 +
fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -4432,6 +4432,7 @@ static void btrfs_cleanup_bg_io(struct b
cache->io_ctl.inode = NULL;
iput(inode);
}
+ ASSERT(cache->io_ctl.pages == NULL);
btrfs_put_block_group(cache);
}

--- a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
@@ -1165,7 +1165,6 @@ int btrfs_wait_cache_io(struct btrfs_roo
ret = update_cache_item(trans, root, inode, path, offset,
io_ctl->entries, io_ctl->bitmaps);
out:
- io_ctl_free(io_ctl);
if (ret) {
invalidate_inode_pages2(inode->i_mapping);
BTRFS_I(inode)->generation = 0;
@@ -1314,6 +1313,7 @@ static int __btrfs_write_out_cache(struc
* them out later
*/
io_ctl_drop_pages(io_ctl);
+ io_ctl_free(io_ctl);

unlock_extent_cached(&BTRFS_I(inode)->io_tree, 0,
i_size_read(inode) - 1, &cached_state, GFP_NOFS);