Re: [syzbot] [xfs?] possible deadlock in xfs_buf_find_insert

Christoph Hellwig
2025-02-03T08:07:26Z

#syz test https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master

From a9ab28b3d21aec6d0f56fe722953e20ce470237b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:22:58 +0100
Subject: xfs: remove xfs_buf_cache.bc_lock

xfs_buf_cache.bc_lock serializes adding buffers to and removing them from
the hashtable. But as the rhashtable code already uses fine grained
internal locking for inserts and removals the extra protection isn't
actually required.

It also happens to fix a lock order inversion vs b_lock added by the
recent lookup race fix.

Fixes: ee10f6fcdb96 ("xfs: fix buffer lookup vs release race")
Reported-by: Lai, Yi <yi1.lai@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++--------------
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
index f1252ed8bd0a..ef207784876c 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *xfs_buf_cache;
*
* xfs_buf_rele:
* b_lock
- * pag_buf_lock
- * lru_lock
+ * lru_lock
*
* xfs_buftarg_drain_rele
* lru_lock
@@ -220,14 +219,21 @@ _xfs_buf_alloc(
*/
flags &= ~(XBF_UNMAPPED | XBF_TRYLOCK | XBF_ASYNC | XBF_READ_AHEAD);

- spin_lock_init(&bp->b_lock);
+ /*
+ * A new buffer is held and locked by the owner. This ensures that the
+ * buffer is owned by the caller and racing RCU lookups right after
+ * inserting into the hash table are safe (and will have to wait for
+ * the unlock to do anything non-trivial).
+ */
bp->b_hold = 1;
+ sema_init(&bp->b_sema, 0); /* held, no waiters */
+
+ spin_lock_init(&bp->b_lock);
atomic_set(&bp->b_lru_ref, 1);
init_completion(&bp->b_iowait);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bp->b_lru);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bp->b_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bp->b_li_list);
- sema_init(&bp->b_sema, 0); /* held, no waiters */
bp->b_target = target;
bp->b_mount = target->bt_mount;
bp->b_flags = flags;
@@ -497,7 +503,6 @@ int
xfs_buf_cache_init(
struct xfs_buf_cache *bch)
{
- spin_lock_init(&bch->bc_lock);
return rhashtable_init(&bch->bc_hash, &xfs_buf_hash_params);
}

@@ -647,17 +652,20 @@ xfs_buf_find_insert(
if (error)
goto out_free_buf;

- spin_lock(&bch->bc_lock);
+ /* The new buffer keeps the perag reference until it is freed. */
+ new_bp->b_pag = pag;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
bp = rhashtable_lookup_get_insert_fast(&bch->bc_hash,
&new_bp->b_rhash_head, xfs_buf_hash_params);
if (IS_ERR(bp)) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
error = PTR_ERR(bp);
- spin_unlock(&bch->bc_lock);
goto out_free_buf;
}
if (bp && xfs_buf_try_hold(bp)) {
/* found an existing buffer */
- spin_unlock(&bch->bc_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
error = xfs_buf_find_lock(bp, flags);
if (error)
xfs_buf_rele(bp);
@@ -665,10 +673,8 @@ xfs_buf_find_insert(
*bpp = bp;
goto out_free_buf;
}
+ rcu_read_unlock();

- /* The new buffer keeps the perag reference until it is freed. */
- new_bp->b_pag = pag;
- spin_unlock(&bch->bc_lock);
*bpp = new_bp;
return 0;

@@ -1085,7 +1091,6 @@ xfs_buf_rele_cached(
}

/* we are asked to drop the last reference */
- spin_lock(&bch->bc_lock);
__xfs_buf_ioacct_dec(bp);
if (!(bp->b_flags & XBF_STALE) && atomic_read(&bp->b_lru_ref)) {
/*
@@ -1097,7 +1102,6 @@ xfs_buf_rele_cached(
bp->b_state &= ~XFS_BSTATE_DISPOSE;
else
bp->b_hold--;
- spin_unlock(&bch->bc_lock);
} else {
bp->b_hold--;
/*
@@ -1115,7 +1119,6 @@ xfs_buf_rele_cached(
ASSERT(!(bp->b_flags & _XBF_DELWRI_Q));
rhashtable_remove_fast(&bch->bc_hash, &bp->b_rhash_head,
xfs_buf_hash_params);
- spin_unlock(&bch->bc_lock);
if (pag)
xfs_perag_put(pag);
freebuf = true;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
index 7e73663c5d4a..3b4ed42e11c0 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ typedef unsigned int xfs_buf_flags_t;
#define XFS_BSTATE_IN_FLIGHT (1 << 1) /* I/O in flight */

struct xfs_buf_cache {
- spinlock_t bc_lock;
struct rhashtable bc_hash;
};

--
2.45.2