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Message-ID: <20230531131546.ugrsvh66wqyl3roh@quack3>
Date:   Wed, 31 May 2023 15:15:46 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu,
        adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, jack@...e.cz, ritesh.list@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jun.nie@...aro.org,
        ebiggers@...nel.org, yi.zhang@...wei.com, yangerkun@...wei.com,
        yukuai3@...wei.com,
        syzbot+a158d886ca08a3fecca4@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix race condition between buffer write and
 page_mkwrite

On Tue 30-05-23 21:44:05, Baokun Li wrote:
> Syzbot reported a BUG_ON:
> ==================================================================
> EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem without journal. Quota mode: none.
> EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:1098: group 0, block
>      bitmap and bg descriptor inconsistent: 25 vs 150994969 free clusters
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:53!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
> CPU: 1 PID: 494 Comm: syz-executor.0 6.1.0-rc7-syzkaller-ga4412fdd49dc #0
> RIP: 0010:__ext4_journal_stop+0x1b3/0x1c0
>  [...]
> Call Trace:
>  ext4_write_inline_data_end+0xa39/0xdf0
>  ext4_da_write_end+0x1e2/0x950
>  generic_perform_write+0x401/0x5f0
>  ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x35f/0x640
>  ext4_file_write_iter+0x198/0x1cd0
>  vfs_write+0x8b5/0xef0
>  [...]
> ==================================================================
> 
> The above BUG_ON is triggered by the following race:
> 
>            cpu1                    cpu2
> ________________________|________________________
> ksys_write
>  vfs_write
>   new_sync_write
>    ext4_file_write_iter
>     ext4_buffered_write_iter
>      generic_perform_write
>       ext4_da_write_begin
>                           do_fault
>                            do_page_mkwrite
>                             ext4_page_mkwrite
>                              ext4_convert_inline_data
>                               ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock
>                                ext4_destroy_inline_data_nolock
>                                 //clear EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA
>                                ext4_map_blocks --> return error
>        ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA)
>        ext4_block_write_begin
>                                ext4_restore_inline_data
>                                 // set EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA
>       ext4_da_write_end
>        ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA)
>        ext4_write_inline_data_end
>         handle=NULL
>         ext4_journal_stop(handle)
>          __ext4_journal_stop
>           ext4_put_nojournal(handle)
>            ref_cnt = (unsigned long)handle
>            BUG_ON(ref_cnt == 0)  ---> BUG_ON
> 
> The root cause of this problem is that the ext4_convert_inline_data() in
> ext4_page_mkwrite() does not grab i_rwsem, so it may race with
> ext4_buffered_write_iter() and cause the write_begin() and write_end()
> functions to be inconsistent and trigger BUG_ON.
> 
> To solve the above issue, we can not add inode_lock directly to
> ext4_page_mkwrite(), which would not only cause performance degradation but
> also ABBA deadlock (see Link). Hence we move ext4_convert_inline_data() to
> ext4_file_mmap(), and only when inline_data is enabled and mmap a writeable
> file in shared mode, we hold the lock to convert, which avoids the above
> problems.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230530102804.6t7np7om6tczscuo@quack3/
> Reported-by: Jun Nie <jun.nie@...aro.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/63903521.5040307@huawei.com/t/
> Reported-by: syzbot+a158d886ca08a3fecca4@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=899b37f20ce4072bcdfecfe1647b39602e956e36
> Fixes: 7b4cc9787fe3 ("ext4: evict inline data when writing to memory map")
> CC: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.12+
> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>

Nice. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  fs/ext4/file.c  | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  fs/ext4/inode.c |  4 ----
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
> index d101b3b0c7da..9df82d72eb90 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/file.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
> @@ -795,7 +795,8 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct ext4_file_vm_ops = {
>  static int ext4_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>  {
>  	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
> -	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
> +	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
> +	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
>  	struct dax_device *dax_dev = sbi->s_daxdev;
>  
>  	if (unlikely(ext4_forced_shutdown(sbi)))
> @@ -808,6 +809,27 @@ static int ext4_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>  	if (!daxdev_mapping_supported(vma, dax_dev))
>  		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Writing via mmap has no logic to handle inline data, so we
> +	 * need to call ext4_convert_inline_data() to convert the inode
> +	 * to normal format before doing so, otherwise a BUG_ON will be
> +	 * triggered in ext4_writepages() due to the
> +	 * EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag. Moreover, we need to grab
> +	 * i_rwsem during conversion, since clearing and setting the
> +	 * inline data flag may race with ext4_buffered_write_iter()
> +	 * to trigger a BUG_ON.
> +	 */
> +	if (ext4_has_feature_inline_data(sb) &&
> +	    vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED && vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYWRITE) {
> +		int err;
> +
> +		inode_lock(inode);
> +		err = ext4_convert_inline_data(inode);
> +		inode_unlock(inode);
> +		if (err)
> +			return err;
> +	}
> +
>  	file_accessed(file);
>  	if (IS_DAX(file_inode(file))) {
>  		vma->vm_ops = &ext4_dax_vm_ops;
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index ce5f21b6c2b3..31844c4ec9fe 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -6043,10 +6043,6 @@ vm_fault_t ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  
>  	filemap_invalidate_lock_shared(mapping);
>  
> -	err = ext4_convert_inline_data(inode);
> -	if (err)
> -		goto out_ret;
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * On data journalling we skip straight to the transaction handle:
>  	 * there's no delalloc; page truncated will be checked later; the
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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