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Coly Li 50a260e859 bcache: fix race in btree_flush_write()
There is a race between mca_reap(), btree_node_free() and journal code
btree_flush_write(), which results very rare and strange deadlock or
panic and are very hard to reproduce.

Let me explain how the race happens. In btree_flush_write() one btree
node with oldest journal pin is selected, then it is flushed to cache
device, the select-and-flush is a two steps operation. Between these two
steps, there are something may happen inside the race window,
- The selected btree node was reaped by mca_reap() and allocated to
  other requesters for other btree node.
- The slected btree node was selected, flushed and released by mca
  shrink callback bch_mca_scan().
When btree_flush_write() tries to flush the selected btree node, firstly
b->write_lock is held by mutex_lock(). If the race happens and the
memory of selected btree node is allocated to other btree node, if that
btree node's write_lock is held already, a deadlock very probably
happens here. A worse case is the memory of the selected btree node is
released, then all references to this btree node (e.g. b->write_lock)
will trigger NULL pointer deference panic.

This race was introduced in commit cafe563591 ("bcache: A block layer
cache"), and enlarged by commit c4dc2497d5 ("bcache: fix high CPU
occupancy during journal"), which selected 128 btree nodes and flushed
them one-by-one in a quite long time period.

Such race is not easy to reproduce before. On a Lenovo SR650 server with
48 Xeon cores, and configure 1 NVMe SSD as cache device, a MD raid0
device assembled by 3 NVMe SSDs as backing device, this race can be
observed around every 10,000 times btree_flush_write() gets called. Both
deadlock and kernel panic all happened as aftermath of the race.

The idea of the fix is to add a btree flag BTREE_NODE_journal_flush. It
is set when selecting btree nodes, and cleared after btree nodes
flushed. Then when mca_reap() selects a btree node with this bit set,
this btree node will be skipped. Since mca_reap() only reaps btree node
without BTREE_NODE_journal_flush flag, such race is avoided.

Once corner case should be noticed, that is btree_node_free(). It might
be called in some error handling code path. For example the following
code piece from btree_split(),
        2149 err_free2:
        2150         bkey_put(b->c, &n2->key);
        2151         btree_node_free(n2);
        2152         rw_unlock(true, n2);
        2153 err_free1:
        2154         bkey_put(b->c, &n1->key);
        2155         btree_node_free(n1);
        2156         rw_unlock(true, n1);
At line 2151 and 2155, the btree node n2 and n1 are released without
mac_reap(), so BTREE_NODE_journal_flush also needs to be checked here.
If btree_node_free() is called directly in such error handling path,
and the selected btree node has BTREE_NODE_journal_flush bit set, just
delay for 1 us and retry again. In this case this btree node won't
be skipped, just retry until the BTREE_NODE_journal_flush bit cleared,
and free the btree node memory.

Fixes: cafe563591 ("bcache: A block layer cache")
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-06-28 07:39:18 -06:00
arch arm64 fixes for -rc5 2019-06-14 06:16:47 -10:00
block block: Remove unused code 2019-06-27 07:34:25 -06:00
certs
crypto SPDX update for 5.2-rc4 2019-06-08 12:52:42 -07:00
Documentation Documentation: nvme: add an example for nvme fault injection 2019-06-21 11:15:50 +02:00
drivers bcache: fix race in btree_flush_write() 2019-06-28 07:39:18 -06:00
fs blkcg, writeback: dead memcgs shouldn't contribute to writeback ownership arbitration 2019-06-15 10:39:42 -06:00
include block: Remove unused code 2019-06-27 07:34:25 -06:00
init block: rename CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP to CONFIG_BFQ_CGROUP_DEBUG 2019-06-20 10:32:35 -06:00
ipc treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 441 2019-06-05 17:37:17 +02:00
kernel cgroup: export css_next_descendant_pre for bfq 2019-06-21 02:48:34 -06:00
lib lib/genalloc: introduce chunk owners 2019-06-13 17:34:56 -10:00
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mm mm/devm_memremap_pages: fix final page put race 2019-06-13 17:34:56 -10:00
net SPDX update for 5.2-rc4 2019-06-08 12:52:42 -07:00
samples SPDX update for 5.2-rc4 2019-06-08 12:52:42 -07:00
scripts scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: prefix addr2line with $CROSS_COMPILE 2019-06-13 17:34:56 -10:00
security Smack: Restore the smackfsdef mount option and add missing prefixes 2019-06-14 14:25:04 -10:00
sound sound fixes for 5.2-rc5 2019-06-14 05:37:06 -10:00
tools mm/devm_memremap_pages: fix final page put race 2019-06-13 17:34:56 -10:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2019-06-08 12:48:49 -07:00
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