From: Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com
commit cb2d3daddbfb6318d170e79aac1f7d5e4d49f0d7 upstream.
When one transaction is finishing its commit, it is possible for another transaction to start and enter its initial commit phase as well. If the first ends up getting aborted, we have a small time window where the second transaction commit does not notice that the previous transaction aborted and ends up committing, writing a superblock that points to btrees that reference extent buffers (nodes and leafs) that were not persisted to disk. The consequence is that after mounting the filesystem again, we will be unable to load some btree nodes/leafs, either because the content on disk is either garbage (or just zeroes) or corresponds to the old content of a previouly COWed or deleted node/leaf, resulting in the well known error messages "parent transid verify failed on ...". The following sequence diagram illustrates how this can happen.
CPU 1 CPU 2
<at transaction N>
btrfs_commit_transaction() (...) --> sets transaction state to TRANS_STATE_UNBLOCKED --> sets fs_info->running_transaction to NULL
(...) btrfs_start_transaction() start_transaction() wait_current_trans() --> returns immediately because fs_info->running_transaction is NULL join_transaction() --> creates transaction N + 1 --> sets fs_info->running_transaction to transaction N + 1 --> adds transaction N + 1 to the fs_info->trans_list list --> returns transaction handle pointing to the new transaction N + 1 (...)
btrfs_sync_file() btrfs_start_transaction() --> returns handle to transaction N + 1 (...)
btrfs_write_and_wait_transaction() --> writeback of some extent buffer fails, returns an error btrfs_handle_fs_error() --> sets BTRFS_FS_STATE_ERROR in fs_info->fs_state --> jumps to label "scrub_continue" cleanup_transaction() btrfs_abort_transaction(N) --> sets BTRFS_FS_STATE_TRANS_ABORTED flag in fs_info->fs_state --> sets aborted field in the transaction and transaction handle structures, for transaction N only --> removes transaction from the list fs_info->trans_list btrfs_commit_transaction(N + 1) --> transaction N + 1 was not aborted, so it proceeds (...) --> sets the transaction's state to TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_START --> does not find the previous transaction (N) in the fs_info->trans_list, so it doesn't know that transaction was aborted, and the commit of transaction N + 1 proceeds (...) --> sets transaction N + 1 state to TRANS_STATE_UNBLOCKED btrfs_write_and_wait_transaction() --> succeeds writing all extent buffers created in the transaction N + 1 write_all_supers() --> succeeds --> we now have a superblock on disk that points to trees that refer to at least one extent buffer that was never persisted
So fix this by updating the transaction commit path to check if the flag BTRFS_FS_STATE_TRANS_ABORTED is set on fs_info->fs_state if after setting the transaction to the TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_START we do not find any previous transaction in the fs_info->trans_list. If the flag is set, just fail the transaction commit with -EROFS, as we do in other places. The exact error code for the previous transaction abort was already logged and reported.
Fixes: 49b25e0540904b ("btrfs: enhance transaction abort infrastructure") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+ Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Reviewed-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c @@ -2052,6 +2052,16 @@ int btrfs_commit_transaction(struct btrf } } else { spin_unlock(&fs_info->trans_lock); + /* + * The previous transaction was aborted and was already removed + * from the list of transactions at fs_info->trans_list. So we + * abort to prevent writing a new superblock that reflects a + * corrupt state (pointing to trees with unwritten nodes/leafs). + */ + if (test_bit(BTRFS_FS_STATE_TRANS_ABORTED, &fs_info->fs_state)) { + ret = -EROFS; + goto cleanup_transaction; + } }
extwriter_counter_dec(cur_trans, trans->type);