From: Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com
commit 06989c799f04810f6876900d4760c0edda369cf7 upstream.
When syncing the log, the final phase of a fsync operation, we need to either create a log root's item or update the existing item in the log tree of log roots, and that depends on the current value of the log root's log_transid - if it's 1 we need to create the log root item, otherwise it must exist already and we update it. Since there is no synchronization between updating the log_transid and checking it for deciding whether the log root's item needs to be created or updated, we end up with a tiny race window that results in attempts to update the item to fail because the item was not yet created:
CPU 1 CPU 2
btrfs_sync_log()
lock root->log_mutex
set log root's log_transid to 1
unlock root->log_mutex
btrfs_sync_log()
lock root->log_mutex
sets log root's log_transid to 2
unlock root->log_mutex
update_log_root()
sees log root's log_transid with a value of 2
calls btrfs_update_root(), which fails with -EUCLEAN and causes transaction abort
Until recently the race lead to a BUG_ON at btrfs_update_root(), but after the recent commit 7ac1e464c4d47 ("btrfs: Don't panic when we can't find a root key") we just abort the current transaction.
A sample trace of the BUG_ON() on a SLE12 kernel:
------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at ../fs/btrfs/root-tree.c:157! Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries (...) Supported: Yes, External CPU: 78 PID: 76303 Comm: rtas_errd Tainted: G X 4.4.156-94.57-default #1 task: c00000ffa906d010 ti: c00000ff42b08000 task.ti: c00000ff42b08000 NIP: d000000036ae5cdc LR: d000000036ae5cd8 CTR: 0000000000000000 REGS: c00000ff42b0b860 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: G X (4.4.156-94.57-default) MSR: 8000000002029033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 22444484 XER: 20000000 CFAR: d000000036aba66c SOFTE: 1 GPR00: d000000036ae5cd8 c00000ff42b0bae0 d000000036bda220 0000000000000054 GPR04: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 c00007ffff8d37c8 0000000000000000 GPR08: c000000000e19c00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 3736343438312079 GPR12: 3930373337303434 c000000007a3a800 00000000007fffff 0000000000000023 GPR16: c00000ffa9d26028 c00000ffa9d261f8 0000000000000010 c00000ffa9d2ab28 GPR20: c00000ff42b0bc48 0000000000000001 c00000ff9f0d9888 0000000000000001 GPR24: c00000ffa9d26000 c00000ffa9d261e8 c00000ffa9d2a800 c00000ff9f0d9888 GPR28: c00000ffa9d26028 c00000ffa9d2aa98 0000000000000001 c00000ffa98f5b20 NIP [d000000036ae5cdc] btrfs_update_root+0x25c/0x4e0 [btrfs] LR [d000000036ae5cd8] btrfs_update_root+0x258/0x4e0 [btrfs] Call Trace: [c00000ff42b0bae0] [d000000036ae5cd8] btrfs_update_root+0x258/0x4e0 [btrfs] (unreliable) [c00000ff42b0bba0] [d000000036b53610] btrfs_sync_log+0x2d0/0xc60 [btrfs] [c00000ff42b0bce0] [d000000036b1785c] btrfs_sync_file+0x44c/0x4e0 [btrfs] [c00000ff42b0bd80] [c00000000032e300] vfs_fsync_range+0x70/0x120 [c00000ff42b0bdd0] [c00000000032e44c] do_fsync+0x5c/0xb0 [c00000ff42b0be10] [c00000000032e8dc] SyS_fdatasync+0x2c/0x40 [c00000ff42b0be30] [c000000000009488] system_call+0x3c/0x100 Instruction dump: 7f43d378 4bffebb9 60000000 88d90008 3d220000 e8b90000 3b390009 e87a01f0 e8898e08 e8f90000 4bfd48e5 60000000 <0fe00000> e95b0060 39200004 394a0ea0 ---[ end trace 8f2dc8f919cabab8 ]---
So fix this by doing the check of log_transid and updating or creating the log root's item while holding the root's log_mutex.
Fixes: 7237f1833601d ("Btrfs: fix tree logs parallel sync") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+ Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c @@ -2907,6 +2907,12 @@ int btrfs_sync_log(struct btrfs_trans_ha log->log_transid = root->log_transid; root->log_start_pid = 0; /* + * Update or create log root item under the root's log_mutex to prevent + * races with concurrent log syncs that can lead to failure to update + * log root item because it was not created yet. + */ + ret = update_log_root(trans, log); + /* * IO has been started, blocks of the log tree have WRITTEN flag set * in their headers. new modifications of the log will be written to * new positions. so it's safe to allow log writers to go in. @@ -2925,8 +2931,6 @@ int btrfs_sync_log(struct btrfs_trans_ha
mutex_unlock(&log_root_tree->log_mutex);
- ret = update_log_root(trans, log); - mutex_lock(&log_root_tree->log_mutex); if (atomic_dec_and_test(&log_root_tree->log_writers)) { /*