Patch "xfs: clear _XBF_PAGES from buffers when readahead page" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xfs: clear _XBF_PAGES from buffers when readahead page

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xfs-clear-_xbf_pages-from-buffers-when-readahead-page.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From hch@lst.de  Thu Feb  2 11:16:46 2017
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Thu,  2 Feb 2017 08:56:10 +0100
Subject: xfs: clear _XBF_PAGES from buffers when readahead page
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Message-ID: <1486022171-8076-19-git-send-email-hch@lst.de>


From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

commit 2aa6ba7b5ad3189cc27f14540aa2f57f0ed8df4b upstream.

If we try to allocate memory pages to back an xfs_buf that we're trying
to read, it's possible that we'll be so short on memory that the page
allocation fails.  For a blocking read we'll just wait, but for
readahead we simply dump all the pages we've collected so far.

Unfortunately, after dumping the pages we neglect to clear the
_XBF_PAGES state, which means that the subsequent call to xfs_buf_free
thinks that b_pages still points to pages we own.  It then double-frees
the b_pages pages.

This results in screaming about negative page refcounts from the memory
manager, which xfs oughtn't be triggering.  To reproduce this case,
mount a filesystem where the size of the inodes far outweighs the
availalble memory (a ~500M inode filesystem on a VM with 300MB memory
did the trick here) and run bulkstat in parallel with other memory
eating processes to put a huge load on the system.  The "check summary"
phase of xfs_scrub also works for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -423,6 +423,7 @@ retry:
 out_free_pages:
 	for (i = 0; i < bp->b_page_count; i++)
 		__free_page(bp->b_pages[i]);
+	bp->b_flags &= ~_XBF_PAGES;
 	return error;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@lst.de are

queue-4.9/xfs-don-t-rely-on-total-in-xfs_alloc_space_available.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-replace-xfs_mode_to_ftype-table-with-switch-statement.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-bogus-minleft-manipulations.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-cow-writeback-race.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-sanity-check-inode-mode-when-creating-new-dentry.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-extsize-hints-are-not-unlikely-in-xfs_bmap_btalloc.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-bump-up-reserved-blocks-in-xfs_alloc_set_aside.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-add-missing-include-dependencies-to-xfs_dir2.h.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-bmv_count-confusion-w-shared-extents.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-adjust-allocation-length-in-xfs_alloc_space_available.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-verify-dirblocklog-correctly.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-xfs_mode_to_ftype-prototype.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-clear-_xbf_pages-from-buffers-when-readahead-page.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-remove-racy-hasattr-check-from-attr-ops.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-make-the-assert-condition-likely.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-sanity-check-directory-inode-di_size.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-don-t-print-warnings-when-xfs_log_force-fails.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-don-t-wrap-id-in-xfs_dq_get_next_id.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-sanity-check-inode-di_mode.patch