We got a WARNING in ext4_add_complete_io: ================================================================== WARNING: at fs/ext4/page-io.c:231 ext4_put_io_end_defer+0x182/0x250 CPU: 10 PID: 77 Comm: ksoftirqd/10 Tainted: 6.3.0-rc2 #85 RIP: 0010:ext4_put_io_end_defer+0x182/0x250 [ext4] [...] Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_end_bio+0xa8/0x240 [ext4] bio_endio+0x195/0x310 blk_update_request+0x184/0x770 scsi_end_request+0x2f/0x240 scsi_io_completion+0x75/0x450 scsi_finish_command+0xef/0x160 scsi_complete+0xa3/0x180 blk_complete_reqs+0x60/0x80 blk_done_softirq+0x25/0x40 __do_softirq+0x119/0x4c8 run_ksoftirqd+0x42/0x70 smpboot_thread_fn+0x136/0x3c0 kthread+0x140/0x1a0 ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50 ==================================================================
Above issue may happen as follows:
cpu1 cpu2 ----------------------------|---------------------------- mount -o dioread_lock ext4_writepages ext4_do_writepages *if (ext4_should_dioread_nolock(inode))* // rsv_blocks is not assigned here mount -o remount,dioread_nolock ext4_journal_start_with_reserve __ext4_journal_start __ext4_journal_start_sb jbd2__journal_start *if (rsv_blocks)* // h_rsv_handle is not initialized here mpage_map_and_submit_extent mpage_map_one_extent dioread_nolock = ext4_should_dioread_nolock(inode) if (dioread_nolock && (map->m_flags & EXT4_MAP_UNWRITTEN)) mpd->io_submit.io_end->handle = handle->h_rsv_handle ext4_set_io_unwritten_flag io_end->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN // now io_end->handle is NULL but has EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN flag
scsi_finish_command scsi_io_completion scsi_io_completion_action scsi_end_request blk_update_request req_bio_endio bio_endio bio->bi_end_io > ext4_end_bio ext4_put_io_end_defer ext4_add_complete_io // trigger WARN_ON(!io_end->handle && sbi->s_journal);
The immediate cause of this problem is that ext4_should_dioread_nolock() function returns inconsistent values in the ext4_do_writepages() and mpage_map_one_extent(). There are four conditions in this function that can be changed at mount time to cause this problem. These four conditions can be divided into two categories:
(1) journal_data and EXT4_EXTENTS_FL, which can be changed by ioctl (2) DELALLOC and DIOREAD_NOLOCK, which can be changed by remount
The two in the first category have been fixed by commit c8585c6fcaf2 ("ext4: fix races between changing inode journal mode and ext4_writepages") and commit cb85f4d23f79 ("ext4: fix race between writepages and enabling EXT4_EXTENTS_FL") respectively.
Two cases in the other category have not yet been fixed, and the above issue is caused by this situation. We refer to the fix for the first category, when applying options during remount, we grab s_writepages_rwsem to avoid racing with writepages ops to trigger this problem.
Fixes: 6b523df4fb5a ("ext4: use transaction reservation for extent conversion in ext4_end_io") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Baokun Li libaokun1@huawei.com --- V1->V2: Grab s_writepages_rwsem unconditionally during remount. Remove patches 1,2 that are no longer needed.
fs/ext4/ext4.h | 3 ++- fs/ext4/super.c | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h index 9b2cfc32cf78..5f5ee0c20673 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -1703,7 +1703,8 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
/* * Barrier between writepages ops and changing any inode's JOURNAL_DATA - * or EXTENTS flag. + * or EXTENTS flag or between writepages ops and changing DELALLOC or + * DIOREAD_NOLOCK mount options on remount. */ struct percpu_rw_semaphore s_writepages_rwsem; struct dax_device *s_daxdev; diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index e6d84c1e34a4..607ebf2a008b 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -6403,7 +6403,16 @@ static int __ext4_remount(struct fs_context *fc, struct super_block *sb)
}
+ /* + * Changing the DIOREAD_NOLOCK or DELALLOC mount options may cause + * two calls to ext4_should_dioread_nolock() to return inconsistent + * values, triggering WARN_ON in ext4_add_complete_io(). we grab + * here s_writepages_rwsem to avoid race between writepages ops and + * remount. + */ + percpu_down_write(&sbi->s_writepages_rwsem); ext4_apply_options(fc, sb); + percpu_up_write(&sbi->s_writepages_rwsem);
if ((old_opts.s_mount_opt & EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_CHECKSUM) ^ test_opt(sb, JOURNAL_CHECKSUM)) {