Re: [syzbot] [btrfs?] kernel BUG in __folio_start_writeback

Aleksandr Nogikh
2024-11-25T10:45:00Z

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 1:30 AM 'Qu Wenruo' via syzkaller-bugs
<syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>
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> 在 2024/11/25 07:56, Matthew Wilcox 写道:
> > On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 05:45:18AM -0800, syzbot wrote:
> >>
> >> __fput+0x5ba/0xa50 fs/file_table.c:458
> >> task_work_run+0x24f/0x310 kernel/task_work.c:239
> >> resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
> >> exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:114 [inline]
> >> exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:329 [inline]
> >> __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline]
> >> syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x13f/0x340 kernel/entry/common.c:218
> >> do_syscall_64+0x100/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:89
> >> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
> >
> > This is:
> >
> > VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_writeback(folio), folio);
> >
> > ie we've called __folio_start_writeback() on a folio which is already
> > under writeback.
> >
> > Higher up in the trace, we have the useful information:
> >
> > page: refcount:6 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff888077139710 index:0x3 pfn:0x72ae5
> > memcg:ffff888140adc000
> > aops:btrfs_aops ino:105 dentry name(?):"file2"
> > flags: 0xfff000000040ab(locked|waiters|uptodate|lru|private|writeback|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
> > raw: 00fff000000040ab ffffea0001c8f408 ffffea0000939708 ffff888077139710
> > raw: 0000000000000003 0000000000000001 00000006ffffffff ffff888140adc000
> > page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_writeback(folio))
> > page_owner tracks the page as allocated
> >
> > The interesting part of the page_owner stacktrace is:
> >
> > filemap_alloc_folio_noprof+0xdf/0x500
> > __filemap_get_folio+0x446/0xbd0
> > prepare_one_folio+0xb6/0xa20
> > btrfs_buffered_write+0x6bd/0x1150
> > btrfs_direct_write+0x52d/0xa30
> > btrfs_do_write_iter+0x2a0/0x760
> > do_iter_readv_writev+0x600/0x880
> > vfs_writev+0x376/0xba0
> >
> > (ie not very interesting)
> >
> >> Workqueue: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_work_helper
> >> RIP: 0010:__folio_start_writeback+0xc06/0x1050 mm/page-writeback.c:3119
> >> Call Trace:
> >> <TASK>
> >> process_one_folio fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:187 [inline]
> >> __process_folios_contig+0x31c/0x540 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:216
> >> submit_one_async_extent fs/btrfs/inode.c:1229 [inline]
> >> submit_compressed_extents+0xdb3/0x16e0 fs/btrfs/inode.c:1632
> >> run_ordered_work fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:245 [inline]
> >> btrfs_work_helper+0x56b/0xc50 fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:324
> >> process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
> >
> > This looks like a race?
> >
> > process_one_folio() calls
> > btrfs_folio_clamp_set_writeback calls
> > btrfs_subpage_set_writeback:
> >
> > spin_lock_irqsave(&subpage->lock, flags);
> > bitmap_set(subpage->bitmaps, start_bit, len >> fs_info->sectorsize_bits)
> > ;
> > if (!folio_test_writeback(folio))
> > folio_start_writeback(folio);
> > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&subpage->lock, flags);
> >
> > so somebody else set writeback after we tested for writeback here.
>
> The test VM is using X86_64, thus we won't go into the subpage routine,
> but directly call folio_start_writeback().
>
> >
> > One thing that comes to mind is that _usually_ we take folio_lock()
> > first, then start writeback, then call folio_unlock() and btrfs isn't
> > doing that here (afaict). Maybe that's not the source of the bug?
>
> We still hold the folio locked, do submission then unlock.
>
> You can check extent_writepage(), where at the entrance we check if the
> folio is still locked.
> Then inside extent_writepage_io() we do the submission, setting the
> folio writeback inside submit_one_sector().
> Eventually unlock the folio at the end of extent_writepage(), that's for
> the uncompressed writes.
>
> There are a lot of special handling for async submission (compression),
> but it still holds the folio locked, do compression and submission, and
> unlock, just all in another thread (this case).
>
> So it looks like something is wrong when transferring the ownership of
> the page cache folios to the compression path, or some not properly
> handled error path.
>
> Unfortunately I'm not really able to reproduce the case using the
> reproducer...

I've just tried to reproduce locally using the downloadable assets and
the kernel crashed ~ after 1 minute of running the attached C repro.

[ 87.616440][ T9044] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 87.617126][ T9044] kernel BUG at mm/page-writeback.c:3119!
[ 87.619308][ T9044] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
[ 87.620174][ T9044] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 9044 Comm: kworker/u10:6 Not
tainted 6.12.0-syzkaller-08446-g228a1157fb9f #0

Here are the instructions I followed:
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot_assets.md#run-a-c-reproducer

--
Aleksandr

>
> Thanks,
> Qu
>
>
>
> >
> > If it is, should we have a VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio), folio)
> > in __folio_start_writeback()? Or is there somewhere that can't lock the
> > folio before starting writeback?
> >
>