linux-ext4 - [PATCH -v2] jbd2: fix race when writing superblock

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Message-ID: <20190212011917.9326-1-tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:19:17 -0500
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <yi.zhang@...wei.com>, <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        <miaoxie@...wei.com>, <jack@...e.cz>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH -v2] jbd2: fix race when writing superblock

The jbd2 superblock is lockless now, so there is probably a race
condition between writing it so disk and modifing contents of it, which
may lead to checksum error. The following race is the one case that we
have captured.

jbd2                                fsstress
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction
 jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail
  jbd2_write_superblock
   jbd2_superblock_csum_set         jbd2_journal_revoke
                                     jbd2_journal_set_features(revork)
                                     modify superblock
   submit_bh(checksum incorrect)

Fix this by locking the buffer head before modifing it.  We always
write the jbd2 superblock after we modify it, so this just means
calling the lock_buffer() a little earlier.

This checksum corruption problem can be reproduced by xfstests
generic/475.

Reported-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
---

v1->v2:
  - Fix missing unlock when jbd2_mark_journal_empty() doesn't need to
    do anything

 fs/jbd2/journal.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 88d8f22d2cba..a8082c86d569 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -1356,6 +1356,10 @@ static int journal_reset(journal_t *journal)
 	return jbd2_journal_start_thread(journal);
 }
 
+/*
+ * This function expects that the caller will have locked the journal
+ * buffer head, and will return with it unlocked
+ */
 static int jbd2_write_superblock(journal_t *journal, int write_flags)
 {
 	struct buffer_head *bh = journal->j_sb_buffer;
@@ -1365,7 +1369,6 @@ static int jbd2_write_superblock(journal_t *journal, int write_flags)
 	trace_jbd2_write_superblock(journal, write_flags);
 	if (!(journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
 		write_flags &= ~(REQ_FUA | REQ_PREFLUSH);
-	lock_buffer(bh);
 	if (buffer_write_io_error(bh)) {
 		/*
 		 * Oh, dear.  A previous attempt to write the journal
@@ -1424,6 +1427,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail(journal_t *journal, tid_t tail_tid,
 	jbd_debug(1, "JBD2: updating superblock (start %lu, seq %u)\n",
 		  tail_block, tail_tid);
 
+	lock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);
 	sb->s_sequence = cpu_to_be32(tail_tid);
 	sb->s_start    = cpu_to_be32(tail_block);
 
@@ -1454,18 +1458,17 @@ static void jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal_t *journal, int write_op)
 	journal_superblock_t *sb = journal->j_superblock;
 
 	BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex));
-	read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-	/* Is it already empty? */
-	if (sb->s_start == 0) {
-		read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+	lock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);
+	if (sb->s_start == 0) {		/* Is it already empty? */
+		unlock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);
 		return;
 	}
+
 	jbd_debug(1, "JBD2: Marking journal as empty (seq %d)\n",
 		  journal->j_tail_sequence);
 
 	sb->s_sequence = cpu_to_be32(journal->j_tail_sequence);
 	sb->s_start    = cpu_to_be32(0);
-	read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 
 	jbd2_write_superblock(journal, write_op);
 
@@ -1488,9 +1491,8 @@ void jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno(journal_t *journal)
 	journal_superblock_t *sb = journal->j_superblock;
 	int errcode;
 
-	read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+	lock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);
 	errcode = journal->j_errno;
-	read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 	if (errcode == -ESHUTDOWN)
 		errcode = 0;
 	jbd_debug(1, "JBD2: updating superblock error (errno %d)\n", errcode);
-- 
2.19.1