The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x b1511360c8ac882b0c52caa263620538e8d73220 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025082107-pellet-wildfire-8e45@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
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From b1511360c8ac882b0c52caa263620538e8d73220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Naohiro Aota naohiro.aota@wdc.com Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:46:56 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: subpage: keep TOWRITE tag until folio is cleaned
btrfs_subpage_set_writeback() calls folio_start_writeback() the first time a folio is written back, and it also clears the PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE tag even if there are still dirty blocks in the folio. This can break ordering guarantees, such as those required by btrfs_wait_ordered_extents().
That ordering breakage leads to a real failure. For example, running generic/464 on a zoned setup will hit the following ASSERT. This happens because the broken ordering fails to flush existing dirty pages before the file size is truncated.
assertion failed: !list_empty(&ordered->list) :: 0, in fs/btrfs/zoned.c:1899 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/zoned.c:1899! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1906169 Comm: kworker/u130:2 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6-BTRFS-ZNS+ #554 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/H12SSL-NT, BIOS 2.0 02/22/2021 Workqueue: btrfs-endio-write btrfs_work_helper [btrfs] RIP: 0010:btrfs_finish_ordered_zoned.cold+0x50/0x52 [btrfs] RSP: 0018:ffffc9002efdbd60 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 000000000000004c RBX: ffff88811923c4e0 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff827e38b1 RDI: 00000000ffffffff RBP: ffff88810005d000 R08: 00000000ffffdfff R09: ffffffff831051c8 R10: ffffffff83055220 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8881c2458c00 R13: ffff88811923c540 R14: ffff88811923c5e8 R15: ffff8881c1bd9680 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88a04acd0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f907c7a918c CR3: 0000000004024000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f btrfs_finish_ordered_io+0x4a/0x60 [btrfs] btrfs_work_helper+0xf9/0x490 [btrfs] process_one_work+0x204/0x590 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f worker_thread+0x1d6/0x3d0 ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 kthread+0x118/0x230 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x205/0x260 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK>
Consider process A calling writepages() with WB_SYNC_NONE. In zoned mode or for compressed writes, it locks several folios for delalloc and starts writing them out. Let's call the last locked folio folio X. Suppose the write range only partially covers folio X, leaving some pages dirty. Process A calls btrfs_subpage_set_writeback() when building a bio. This function call clears the TOWRITE tag of folio X, whose size = 8K and the block size = 4K. It is following state.
0 4K 8K |/////|/////| (flag: DIRTY, tag: DIRTY) <-----> Process A will write this range.
Now suppose process B concurrently calls writepages() with WB_SYNC_ALL. It calls tag_pages_for_writeback() to tag dirty folios with PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE. Since folio X is still dirty, it gets tagged. Then, B collects tagged folios using filemap_get_folios_tag() and must wait for folio X to be written before returning from writepages().
0 4K 8K |/////|/////| (flag: DIRTY, tag: DIRTY|TOWRITE)
However, between tagging and collecting, process A may call btrfs_subpage_set_writeback() and clear folio X's TOWRITE tag. 0 4K 8K | |/////| (flag: DIRTY|WRITEBACK, tag: DIRTY)
As a result, process B won't see folio X in its batch, and returns without waiting for it. This breaks the WB_SYNC_ALL ordering requirement.
Fix this by using btrfs_subpage_set_writeback_keepwrite(), which retains the TOWRITE tag. We now manually clear the tag only after the folio becomes clean, via the xas operation.
Fixes: 3470da3b7d87 ("btrfs: subpage: introduce helpers for writeback status") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.12+ Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota naohiro.aota@wdc.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/subpage.c b/fs/btrfs/subpage.c index c9b3821957f7..cb4f97833dc3 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/subpage.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/subpage.c @@ -448,8 +448,25 @@ void btrfs_subpage_set_writeback(const struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
spin_lock_irqsave(&bfs->lock, flags); bitmap_set(bfs->bitmaps, start_bit, len >> fs_info->sectorsize_bits); + + /* + * Don't clear the TOWRITE tag when starting writeback on a still-dirty + * folio. Doing so can cause WB_SYNC_ALL writepages() to overlook it, + * assume writeback is complete, and exit too early — violating sync + * ordering guarantees. + */ if (!folio_test_writeback(folio)) - folio_start_writeback(folio); + __folio_start_writeback(folio, true); + if (!folio_test_dirty(folio)) { + struct address_space *mapping = folio_mapping(folio); + XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, folio->index); + unsigned long flags; + + xas_lock_irqsave(&xas, flags); + xas_load(&xas); + xas_clear_mark(&xas, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE); + xas_unlock_irqrestore(&xas, flags); + } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bfs->lock, flags); }