When starting writeback for a range that covers part of a preallocated
extent, due to a race with writeback for another range that also covers
another part of the same preallocated extent, we can end up in an infinite
loop.
Consider the following example where for inode 280 we have two dirty
ranges:
range A, from 294912 to 303103, 8192 bytes
range B, from 348160 to 438271, 90112 bytes
and we have the following file extent item layout for our inode:
leaf 38895616 gen 24544 total ptrs 29 free space 13820 owner 5
(...)
item 27 key (280 108 200704) itemoff 14598 itemsize 53
extent data disk bytenr 0 nr 0 type 1 (regular)
extent data offset 0 nr 94208 ram 94208
item 28 key (280 108 294912) itemoff 14545 itemsize 53
extent data disk bytenr 10433052672 nr 81920 type 2 (prealloc)
extent data offset 0 nr 81920 ram 81920
Then the following happens:
1) Writeback starts for range B (from 348160 to 438271), execution of
run_delalloc_nocow() starts;
2) The first iteration of run_delalloc_nocow()'s whil loop leaves us at
the extent item at slot 28, pointing to the prealloc extent item
covering the range from 294912 to 376831. This extent covers part of
our range;
3) An ordered extent is created against that extent, covering the file
range from 348160 to 376831 (28672 bytes);
4) We adjust 'cur_offset' to 376832 and move on to the next iteration of
the while loop;
5) The call to btrfs_lookup_file_extent() leaves us at the same leaf,
pointing to slot 29, 1 slot after the last item (the extent item
we processed in the previous iteration);
6) Because we are a slot beyond the last item, we call btrfs_next_leaf(),
which releases the search path before doing a another search for the
last key of the leaf (280 108 294912);
7) Right after btrfs_next_leaf() released the path, and before it did
another search for the last key of the leaf, writeback for the range
A (from 294912 to 303103) completes (it was previously started at
some point);
8) Upon completion of the ordered extent for range A, the prealloc extent
we previously found got split into two extent items, one covering the
range from 294912 to 303103 (8192 bytes), with a type of regular extent
(and no longer prealloc) and another covering the range from 303104 to
376831 (73728 bytes), with a type of prealloc and an offset of 8192
bytes. So our leaf now has the following layout:
leaf 38895616 gen 24544 total ptrs 31 free space 13664 owner 5
(...)
item 27 key (280 108 200704) itemoff 14598 itemsize 53
extent data disk bytenr 0 nr 0 type 1
extent data offset 0 nr 8192 ram 94208
item 28 key (280 108 208896) itemoff 14545 itemsize 53
extent data disk bytenr 10433142784 nr 86016 type 1
extent data offset 0 nr 86016 ram 86016
item 29 key (280 108 294912) itemoff 14492 itemsize 53
extent data disk bytenr 10433052672 nr 81920 type 1
extent data offset 0 nr 8192 ram 81920
item 30 key (280 108 303104) itemoff 14439 itemsize 53
extent data disk bytenr 10433052672 nr 81920 type 2
extent data offset 8192 nr 73728 ram 81920
9) After btrfs_next_leaf() returns, we have our path pointing to that same
leaf and at slot 30, since it has a key we didn't have before and it's
the first key greater then the key that was previously the last key of
the leaf (key (280 108 294912));
10) The extent item at slot 30 covers the range from 303104 to 376831
which is in our target range, so we process it, despite having already
created an ordered extent against this extent for the file range from
348160 to 376831. This is because we skip to the next extent item only
if its end is less than or equals to the start of our delalloc range,
and not less than or equals to the current offset ('cur_offset');
11) As a result we compute 'num_bytes' as:
num_bytes = min(end + 1, extent_end) - cur_offset;
= min(438271 + 1, 376832) - 376832 = 0
12) We then call create_io_em() for a 0 bytes range starting at offset
376832;
13) Then create_io_em() enters an infinite loop because its calls to
btrfs_drop_extent_cache() do nothing due to the 0 length range
passed to it. So no existing extent maps that cover the offset
376832 get removed, and therefore calls to add_extent_mapping()
return -EEXIST, resulting in an infinite loop. This loop from
create_io_em() is the following:
do {
btrfs_drop_extent_cache(BTRFS_I(inode), em->start,
em->start + em->len - 1, 0);
write_lock(&em_tree->lock);
ret = add_extent_mapping(em_tree, em, 1);
write_unlock(&em_tree->lock);
/*
* The caller has taken lock_extent(), who could race with us
* to add em?
*/
} while (ret == -EEXIST);
Also, each call to btrfs_drop_extent_cache() triggers a warning because
the start offset passed to it (376832) is smaller then the end offset
(376832 - 1) passed to it by -1, due to the 0 length:
[258532.052621] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[258532.052643] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9987 at fs/btrfs/file.c:602 btrfs_drop_extent_cache+0x3f4/0x590 [btrfs]
(...)
[258532.052672] CPU: 0 PID: 9987 Comm: fsx Tainted: G W 5.4.0-rc7-btrfs-next-64 #1
[258532.052673] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-0-ga698c8995f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[258532.052691] RIP: 0010:btrfs_drop_extent_cache+0x3f4/0x590 [btrfs]
(...)
[258532.052695] RSP: 0018:ffffb4be0153f860 EFLAGS: 00010287
[258532.052700] RAX: ffff975b445ee360 RBX: ffff975b44eb3e08 RCX: 0000000000000000
[258532.052700] RDX: 0000000000038fff RSI: 0000000000039000 RDI: ffff975b445ee308
[258532.052700] RBP: 0000000000038fff R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
[258532.052701] R10: ffff975b513c5c10 R11: 00000000e3c0cfa9 R12: 0000000000039000
[258532.052703] R13: ffff975b445ee360 R14: 00000000ffffffef R15: ffff975b445ee308
[258532.052705] FS: 00007f86a821de80(0000) GS:ffff975b76a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[258532.052707] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[258532.052708] CR2: 00007fdacf0f3ab4 CR3: 00000001f9d26002 CR4: 00000000003606f0
[258532.052712] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[258532.052717] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[258532.052717] Call Trace:
[258532.052718] ? preempt_schedule_common+0x32/0x70
[258532.052722] ? ___preempt_schedule+0x16/0x20
[258532.052741] create_io_em+0xff/0x180 [btrfs]
[258532.052767] run_delalloc_nocow+0x942/0xb10 [btrfs]
[258532.052791] btrfs_run_delalloc_range+0x30b/0x520 [btrfs]
[258532.052812] ? find_lock_delalloc_range+0x221/0x250 [btrfs]
[258532.052834] writepage_delalloc+0xe4/0x140 [btrfs]
[258532.052855] __extent_writepage+0x110/0x4e0 [btrfs]
[258532.052876] extent_write_cache_pages+0x21c/0x480 [btrfs]
[258532.052906] extent_writepages+0x52/0xb0 [btrfs]
[258532.052911] do_writepages+0x23/0x80
[258532.052915] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xd2/0x110
[258532.052938] btrfs_fdatawrite_range+0x1b/0x50 [btrfs]
[258532.052954] start_ordered_ops+0x57/0xa0 [btrfs]
[258532.052973] ? btrfs_sync_file+0x225/0x490 [btrfs]
[258532.052988] btrfs_sync_file+0x225/0x490 [btrfs]
[258532.052997] __x64_sys_msync+0x199/0x200
[258532.053004] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x250
[258532.053007] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
[258532.053010] RIP: 0033:0x7f86a7dfd760
(...)
[258532.053014] RSP: 002b:00007ffd99af0368 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000001a
[258532.053016] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000ec9 RCX: 00007f86a7dfd760
[258532.053017] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 000000000000836c RDI: 00007f86a8221000
[258532.053019] RBP: 0000000000021ec9 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 00007f86a812037c
[258532.053020] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000000074a3
[258532.053021] R13: 00007f86a8221000 R14: 000000000000836c R15: 0000000000000001
[258532.053032] irq event stamp: 1653450494
[258532.053035] hardirqs last enabled at (1653450493): [<ffffffff9dec69f9>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x29/0x50
[258532.053037] hardirqs last disabled at (1653450494): [<ffffffff9d4048ea>] trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x1a/0x20
[258532.053039] softirqs last enabled at (1653449852): [<ffffffff9e200466>] __do_softirq+0x466/0x6bd
[258532.053042] softirqs last disabled at (1653449845): [<ffffffff9d4c8a0c>] irq_exit+0xec/0x120
[258532.053043] ---[ end trace 8476fce13d9ce20a ]---
Which results in flooding dmesg/syslog since btrfs_drop_extent_cache()
uses WARN_ON() and not WARN_ON_ONCE().
So fix this issue by changing run_delalloc_nocow()'s loop to move to the
next extent item when the current extent item ends at at offset less than
or equals to the current offset instead of the start offset.
Fixes: 80ff385665 ("Btrfs: update nodatacow code v2")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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