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Jan Kara cb0c744500 writeback: Avoid skipping inode writeback
commit 5afced3bf28100d81fb2fe7e98918632a08feaf5 upstream.

Inode's i_io_list list head is used to attach inode to several different
lists - wb->{b_dirty, b_dirty_time, b_io, b_more_io}. When flush worker
prepares a list of inodes to writeback e.g. for sync(2), it moves inodes
to b_io list. Thus it is critical for sync(2) data integrity guarantees
that inode is not requeued to any other writeback list when inode is
queued for processing by flush worker. That's the reason why
writeback_single_inode() does not touch i_io_list (unless the inode is
completely clean) and why __mark_inode_dirty() does not touch i_io_list
if I_SYNC flag is set.

However there are two flaws in the current logic:

1) When inode has only I_DIRTY_TIME set but it is already queued in b_io
list due to sync(2), concurrent __mark_inode_dirty(inode, I_DIRTY_SYNC)
can still move inode back to b_dirty list resulting in skipping
writeback of inode time stamps during sync(2).

2) When inode is on b_dirty_time list and writeback_single_inode() races
with __mark_inode_dirty() like:

writeback_single_inode()		__mark_inode_dirty(inode, I_DIRTY_PAGES)
  inode->i_state |= I_SYNC
  __writeback_single_inode()
					  inode->i_state |= I_DIRTY_PAGES;
					  if (inode->i_state & I_SYNC)
					    bail
  if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL))
  - not true so nothing done

We end up with I_DIRTY_PAGES inode on b_dirty_time list and thus
standard background writeback will not writeback this inode leading to
possible dirty throttling stalls etc. (thanks to Martijn Coenen for this
analysis).

Fix these problems by tracking whether inode is queued in b_io or
b_more_io lists in a new I_SYNC_QUEUED flag. When this flag is set, we
know flush worker has queued inode and we should not touch i_io_list.
On the other hand we also know that once flush worker is done with the
inode it will requeue the inode to appropriate dirty list. When
I_SYNC_QUEUED is not set, __mark_inode_dirty() can (and must) move inode
to appropriate dirty list.

Reported-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Tested-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fixes: 0ae45f63d4 ("vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-09-03 11:27:04 +02:00
arch arm64: Allow booting of late CPUs affected by erratum 1418040 2020-09-03 11:27:01 +02:00
block blk-mq: order adding requests to hctx->dispatch and checking SCHED_RESTART 2020-09-03 11:27:01 +02:00
certs
crypto crypto: algif_aead - fix uninitialized ctx->init 2020-08-21 13:05:38 +02:00
Documentation kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVM 2020-08-26 10:40:47 +02:00
drivers serial: 8250: change lock order in serial8250_do_startup() 2020-09-03 11:27:04 +02:00
fs writeback: Avoid skipping inode writeback 2020-09-03 11:27:04 +02:00
include writeback: Avoid skipping inode writeback 2020-09-03 11:27:04 +02:00
init x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try 2020-05-20 08:20:34 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel sched/uclamp: Fix a deadlock when enabling uclamp static key 2020-09-03 11:26:49 +02:00
lib test_kmod: avoid potential double free in trigger_config_run_type() 2020-08-21 13:05:37 +02:00
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mm mm/vunmap: add cond_resched() in vunmap_pmd_range 2020-09-03 11:26:52 +02:00
net can: j1939: transport: j1939_xtp_rx_dat_one(): compare own packets to detect corruptions 2020-09-03 11:26:58 +02:00
samples bpf: Fix fds_example SIGSEGV error 2020-08-19 08:16:03 +02:00
scripts kconfig: qconf: fix signal connection to invalid slots 2020-08-26 10:41:04 +02:00
security Smack: prevent underflow in smk_set_cipso() 2020-08-19 08:16:16 +02:00
sound ASoC: wm8994: Avoid attempts to read unreadable registers 2020-09-03 11:26:59 +02:00
tools selftests: disable rp_filter for icmp_redirect.sh 2020-09-03 11:26:59 +02:00
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virt KVM: arm64: Only reschedule if MMU_NOTIFIER_RANGE_BLOCKABLE is not set 2020-08-26 10:41:08 +02:00
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