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Message-ID: <CAD+ocbwFH8HfgF1JVQq4tCaiL6o5iOCMx0hGp4J3juE4EaPxgg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:59:28 -0700
From: harshad shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>
To: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu, jack@...e.cz, 
	harshads@...gle.com, Yang Erkun <yangerkun@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 9/9] ext4: hold s_fc_lock while during fast commit

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Harshad,
>
> On 2024/8/18 12:03, Harshad Shirwadkar wrote:
> > Leaving s_fc_lock in between during commit in ext4_fc_perform_commit()
> > function leaves room for subtle concurrency bugs where ext4_fc_del() may
> > delete an inode from the fast commit list, leaving list in an inconsistent
> > state. Also, this patch converts s_fc_lock to mutex type so that it can be
> > held when kmem_cache_* functions are called.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>
> > ---
> >   fs/ext4/ext4.h        |  2 +-
> >   fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 91 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> >   fs/ext4/super.c       |  2 +-
> >   3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> > index 4ecb63f95..a1acd34ff 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> > @@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
> >        * following fields:
> >        * ei->i_fc_list, s_fc_dentry_q, s_fc_q, s_fc_bytes, s_fc_bh.
> >        */
> > -     spinlock_t s_fc_lock;
> > +     struct mutex s_fc_lock;
> >       struct buffer_head *s_fc_bh;
> >       struct ext4_fc_stats s_fc_stats;
> >       tid_t s_fc_ineligible_tid;
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c b/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c
> > index 7525450f1..c3627efd9 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c
> > @@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ void ext4_fc_del(struct inode *inode)
> >       if (ext4_fc_disabled(inode->i_sb))
> >               return;
> >
> > -     spin_lock(&EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_fc_lock);
> > +     mutex_lock(&EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_fc_lock);
> >       if (list_empty(&ei->i_fc_list) && list_empty(&ei->i_fc_dilist)) {
> > -             spin_unlock(&EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_fc_lock);
> > +             mutex_unlock(&EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_fc_lock);
> >               return;
> >       }
> >
> > @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ void ext4_fc_del(struct inode *inode)
> >        * dentry create references, since it is not needed to log it anyways.
> >        */
> >       if (list_empty(&ei->i_fc_dilist)) {
> > -             spin_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +             mutex_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >               return;
> >       }
> >
> > @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ void ext4_fc_del(struct inode *inode)
> >       list_del_init(&fc_dentry->fcd_dilist);
> >
> >       WARN_ON(!list_empty(&ei->i_fc_dilist));
> > -     spin_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +     mutex_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >
> >       if (fc_dentry->fcd_name.name &&
> >               fc_dentry->fcd_name.len > DNAME_INLINE_LEN)
> > @@ -306,10 +306,10 @@ void ext4_fc_mark_ineligible(struct super_block *sb, int reason, handle_t *handl
> >                               sbi->s_journal->j_running_transaction->t_tid : 0;
> >               read_unlock(&sbi->s_journal->j_state_lock);
> >       }
> > -     spin_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +     mutex_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >       if (tid_gt(tid, sbi->s_fc_ineligible_tid))
> >               sbi->s_fc_ineligible_tid = tid;
> > -     spin_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +     mutex_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >       WARN_ON(reason >= EXT4_FC_REASON_MAX);
> >       sbi->s_fc_stats.fc_ineligible_reason_count[reason]++;
> >   }
> > @@ -349,14 +349,14 @@ static int ext4_fc_track_template(
> >       if (!enqueue)
> >               return ret;
> >
> > -     spin_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +     mutex_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >       if (list_empty(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_fc_list))
> >               list_add_tail(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_fc_list,
> >                               (sbi->s_journal->j_flags & JBD2_FULL_COMMIT_ONGOING ||
> >                                sbi->s_journal->j_flags & JBD2_FAST_COMMIT_ONGOING) ?
> >                               &sbi->s_fc_q[FC_Q_STAGING] :
> >                               &sbi->s_fc_q[FC_Q_MAIN]);
> > -     spin_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +     mutex_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >
> >       return ret;
> >   }
> > @@ -414,7 +414,8 @@ static int __track_dentry_update(struct inode *inode, void *arg, bool update)
> >       }
> >       node->fcd_name.len = dentry->d_name.len;
> >       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->fcd_dilist);
> > -     spin_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +     INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->fcd_list);
> > +     mutex_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >       if (sbi->s_journal->j_flags & JBD2_FULL_COMMIT_ONGOING ||
> >               sbi->s_journal->j_flags & JBD2_FAST_COMMIT_ONGOING)
> >               list_add_tail(&node->fcd_list,
> > @@ -435,7 +436,7 @@ static int __track_dentry_update(struct inode *inode, void *arg, bool update)
> >               WARN_ON(!list_empty(&ei->i_fc_dilist));
> >               list_add_tail(&node->fcd_dilist, &ei->i_fc_dilist);
> >       }
> > -     spin_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +     mutex_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >       spin_lock(&ei->i_fc_lock);
> >
> >       return 0;
> > @@ -955,15 +956,15 @@ static int ext4_fc_submit_inode_data_all(journal_t *journal)
> >       struct ext4_inode_info *ei;
> >       int ret = 0;
> >
> > -     spin_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +     mutex_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >       list_for_each_entry(ei, &sbi->s_fc_q[FC_Q_MAIN], i_fc_list) {
> > -             spin_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +             mutex_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >               ret = jbd2_submit_inode_data(journal, ei->jinode);
> >               if (ret)
> >                       return ret;
> > -             spin_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +             mutex_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >       }
> > -     spin_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> > +     mutex_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> >
> We're also seeing a similar race condition here. This issue was encountered
> while running `kvm-xfstests -c ext4/adv -C 500 generic/241`:
>
>      P1                |         P2
> ----------------------------------------------------
>                             evict
>                              ext4_evict_inode
>                               ext4_free_inode
>                                ext4_clear_inode
>                                 ext4_fc_del(inode)
> ext4_sync_file
>   ext4_fsync_journal
>    ext4_fc_commit
>     ext4_fc_perform_commit
>      ext4_fc_submit_inode_data_all
>       -- spin_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
>        list_for_each_entry(i_fc_list)
>          -- spin_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
>                                 -- spin_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock)
>                                   if (!list_empty(&ei->i_fc_list))
> list_del_init(&ei->i_fc_list);
>                                 -- spin_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
> jbd2_free_inode(EXT4_I(inode)->jinode)
>                                 EXT4_I(inode)->jinode = NULL
>           jbd2_submit_inode_data
>            journal->j_submit_inode_data_buffers
>             ext4_journal_submit_inode_data_buffers
>              ext4_should_journal_data(jinode->i_vfs_inode)
>               // a. jinode may use-after-free !!!
>               ext4_inode_journal_mode(inode)
>                EXT4_JOURNAL(inode)
>                 (inode)->i_sb
>                  // b. inode may null-ptr-deref !!!
>          -- spin_lock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
>       -- spin_unlock(&sbi->s_fc_lock);
>
> By the way, the WARN_ON added in patch 5 can detect this issue without
> enabling KASAN, but patch 5 also introduced softlocks and other UAFs.

Thanks for mentioning this. V8 of the patchset handles this race by
not releasing s_fc_lock in ext4_fc_submit_inode_data_all().

- Harshad
>
>
> Regards,
> Baokun
>

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