[PATCH 5.15 232/279] btrfs: fix memory ordering between normal and ordered work functions

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-24T14:06:47Z

From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>

commit 45da9c1767ac31857df572f0a909fbe88fd5a7e9 upstream.

Ordered work functions aren't guaranteed to be handled by the same thread
which executed the normal work functions. The only way execution between
normal/ordered functions is synchronized is via the WORK_DONE_BIT,
unfortunately the used bitops don't guarantee any ordering whatsoever.

This manifested as seemingly inexplicable crashes on ARM64, where
async_chunk::inode is seen as non-null in async_cow_submit which causes
submit_compressed_extents to be called and crash occurs because
async_chunk::inode suddenly became NULL. The call trace was similar to:

pc : submit_compressed_extents+0x38/0x3d0
lr : async_cow_submit+0x50/0xd0
sp : ffff800015d4bc20

<registers omitted for brevity>

Call trace:
submit_compressed_extents+0x38/0x3d0
async_cow_submit+0x50/0xd0
run_ordered_work+0xc8/0x280
btrfs_work_helper+0x98/0x250
process_one_work+0x1f0/0x4ac
worker_thread+0x188/0x504
kthread+0x110/0x114
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

Fix this by adding respective barrier calls which ensure that all
accesses preceding setting of WORK_DONE_BIT are strictly ordered before
setting the flag. At the same time add a read barrier after reading of
WORK_DONE_BIT in run_ordered_work which ensures all subsequent loads
would be strictly ordered after reading the bit. This in turn ensures
are all accesses before WORK_DONE_BIT are going to be strictly ordered
before any access that can occur in ordered_func.

Reported-by: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Fixes: 08a9ff326418 ("btrfs: Added btrfs_workqueue_struct implemented ordered execution based on kernel workqueue")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011928
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Tested-by: Chris Murphy <chris@colorremedies.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/btrfs/async-thread.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
@@ -234,6 +234,13 @@ static void run_ordered_work(struct __bt
ordered_list);
if (!test_bit(WORK_DONE_BIT, &work->flags))
break;
+ /*
+ * Orders all subsequent loads after reading WORK_DONE_BIT,
+ * paired with the smp_mb__before_atomic in btrfs_work_helper
+ * this guarantees that the ordered function will see all
+ * updates from ordinary work function.
+ */
+ smp_rmb();

/*
* we are going to call the ordered done function, but
@@ -317,6 +324,13 @@ static void btrfs_work_helper(struct wor
thresh_exec_hook(wq);
work->func(work);
if (need_order) {
+ /*
+ * Ensures all memory accesses done in the work function are
+ * ordered before setting the WORK_DONE_BIT. Ensuring the thread
+ * which is going to executed the ordered work sees them.
+ * Pairs with the smp_rmb in run_ordered_work.
+ */
+ smp_mb__before_atomic();
set_bit(WORK_DONE_BIT, &work->flags);
run_ordered_work(wq, work);
} else {