linux-ext4 - [PATCH v3 01/11] fs: fix lazytime expiration handling in __writeback_single

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:02:43 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH v3 01/11] fs: fix lazytime expiration handling in __writeback_single_inode()

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

When lazytime is enabled and an inode is being written due to its
in-memory updated timestamps having expired, either due to a sync() or
syncfs() system call or due to dirtytime_expire_interval having elapsed,
the VFS needs to inform the filesystem so that the filesystem can copy
the inode's timestamps out to the on-disk data structures.

This is done by __writeback_single_inode() calling
mark_inode_dirty_sync(), which then calls ->dirty_inode(I_DIRTY_SYNC).

However, this occurs after __writeback_single_inode() has already
cleared the dirty flags from ->i_state.  This causes two bugs:

- mark_inode_dirty_sync() redirties the inode, causing it to remain
  dirty.  This wastefully causes the inode to be written twice.  But
  more importantly, it breaks cases where sync_filesystem() is expected
  to clean dirty inodes.  This includes the FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY
  ioctl (as reported at
  https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200306004555.GB225345@gmail.com), as well
  as possibly filesystem freezing (freeze_super()).

- Since ->i_state doesn't contain I_DIRTY_TIME when ->dirty_inode() is
  called from __writeback_single_inode() for lazytime expiration,
  xfs_fs_dirty_inode() ignores the notification.  (XFS only cares about
  lazytime expirations, and it assumes that i_state will contain
  I_DIRTY_TIME during those.)  Therefore, lazy timestamps aren't
  persisted by sync(), syncfs(), or dirtytime_expire_interval on XFS.

Fix this by moving the call to mark_inode_dirty_sync() to earlier in
__writeback_single_inode(), before the dirty flags are cleared from
i_state.  This makes filesystems be properly notified of the timestamp
expiration, and it avoids incorrectly redirtying the inode.

This fixes xfstest generic/580 (which tests
FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY) when run on ext4 or f2fs with lazytime
enabled.  It also fixes the new lazytime xfstest I've proposed, which
reproduces the above-mentioned XFS bug
(https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105005818.92978-1-ebiggers@kernel.org).

Alternatively, we could call ->dirty_inode(I_DIRTY_SYNC) directly.  But
due to the introduction of I_SYNC_QUEUED, mark_inode_dirty_sync() is the
right thing to do because mark_inode_dirty_sync() now knows not to move
the inode to a writeback list if it is currently queued for sync.

Fixes: 0ae45f63d4ef ("vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Depends-on: 5afced3bf281 ("writeback: Avoid skipping inode writeback")
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
---
 fs/fs-writeback.c | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index acfb55834af23..c41cb887eb7d3 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -1474,21 +1474,25 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Some filesystems may redirty the inode during the writeback
-	 * due to delalloc, clear dirty metadata flags right before
-	 * write_inode()
+	 * If the inode has dirty timestamps and we need to write them, call
+	 * mark_inode_dirty_sync() to notify the filesystem about it and to
+	 * change I_DIRTY_TIME into I_DIRTY_SYNC.
 	 */
-	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-
-	dirty = inode->i_state & I_DIRTY;
 	if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) &&
-	    ((dirty & I_DIRTY_INODE) ||
-	     wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->for_sync ||
+	    (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->for_sync ||
 	     time_after(jiffies, inode->dirtied_time_when +
 			dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ))) {
-		dirty |= I_DIRTY_TIME;
 		trace_writeback_lazytime(inode);
+		mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Some filesystems may redirty the inode during the writeback
+	 * due to delalloc, clear dirty metadata flags right before
+	 * write_inode()
+	 */
+	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+	dirty = inode->i_state & I_DIRTY;
 	inode->i_state &= ~dirty;
 
 	/*
@@ -1509,8 +1513,6 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 
 	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 
-	if (dirty & I_DIRTY_TIME)
-		mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
 	/* Don't write the inode if only I_DIRTY_PAGES was set */
 	if (dirty & ~I_DIRTY_PAGES) {
 		int err = write_inode(inode, wbc);
-- 
2.30.0