linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] ext4/jbd2: Fix FS corruption possibility on umount path

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Message-ID: <87a8mk6hfw.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Date:	Sun, 28 Feb 2016 23:24:51 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] ext4/jbd2: Fix FS corruption possibility on umount path

On umount path, jbd2_journal_destroy() writes latest transaction ID
(->j_tail_sequence) to be used at next mount.

The bug is that ->j_tail_sequence is not holding latest transaction ID
in some cases. So, at next mount, there is chance to conflict with
remaining (not overwritten yet) transactions.

	mount (id=10)
	write transaction (id=11)
	write transaction (id=12)
	umount (id=10) <= the bug doesn't write latest ID

	mount (id=10)
	write transaction (id=11)
	crash

	mount
	[recovery process]
		transaction (id=11)
		transaction (id=12) <= valid transaction ID, but old commit
                                       must not replay

Like above, this bug become the cause of recovery failure, or FS
corruption.

So why ->j_tail_sequence doesn't point latest ID?

Because if checkpoint transactions was reclaimed by memory pressure
(i.e. bdev_try_to_free_page()), then ->j_tail_sequence is not updated.
(And another case is, __jbd2_journal_clean_checkpoint_list() is called
with empty transaction.)

So in above cases, ->j_tail_sequence is not pointing latest
transaction ID at umount path. Plus, REQ_FLUSH for checkpoint is not
done too.

So, to fix this problem with minimum changes, this patch updates
->j_tail_sequence, and issue REQ_FLUSH.  (With more complex changes,
some optimizations would be possible to avoid unnecessary REQ_FLUSH
for example though.)

BTW,

	journal->j_tail_sequence =
		++journal->j_transaction_sequence;

Increment of ->j_transaction_sequence seems to be unnecessary, but
ext3 does this.

v2: Fix "make htmldocs" warning

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---

 fs/jbd2/journal.c |   17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/jbd2/journal.c~ext4-umount-fix fs/jbd2/journal.c
--- linux/fs/jbd2/journal.c~ext4-umount-fix	2016-02-28 10:16:41.997093008 +0900
+++ linux-hirofumi/fs/jbd2/journal.c	2016-02-28 23:01:25.865647233 +0900
@@ -1408,11 +1408,12 @@ out:
 /**
  * jbd2_mark_journal_empty() - Mark on disk journal as empty.
  * @journal: The journal to update.
+ * @write_op: With which operation should we write the journal sb
  *
  * Update a journal's dynamic superblock fields to show that journal is empty.
  * Write updated superblock to disk waiting for IO to complete.
  */
-static void jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal_t *journal)
+static void jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal_t *journal, int write_op)
 {
 	journal_superblock_t *sb = journal->j_superblock;
 
@@ -1430,7 +1431,7 @@ static void jbd2_mark_journal_empty(jour
 	sb->s_start    = cpu_to_be32(0);
 	read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 
-	jbd2_write_superblock(journal, WRITE_FUA);
+	jbd2_write_superblock(journal, write_op);
 
 	/* Log is no longer empty */
 	write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
@@ -1716,7 +1717,13 @@ int jbd2_journal_destroy(journal_t *jour
 	if (journal->j_sb_buffer) {
 		if (!is_journal_aborted(journal)) {
 			mutex_lock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
-			jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal);
+
+			write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+			journal->j_tail_sequence =
+				++journal->j_transaction_sequence;
+			write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+
+			jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal, WRITE_FLUSH_FUA);
 			mutex_unlock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
 		} else
 			err = -EIO;
@@ -1975,7 +1982,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_flush(journal_t *journa
 	 * the magic code for a fully-recovered superblock.  Any future
 	 * commits of data to the journal will restore the current
 	 * s_start value. */
-	jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal);
+	jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal, WRITE_FUA);
 	mutex_unlock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
 	write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 	J_ASSERT(!journal->j_running_transaction);
@@ -2021,7 +2028,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_wipe(journal_t *journal
 	if (write) {
 		/* Lock to make assertions happy... */
 		mutex_lock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
-		jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal);
+		jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal, WRITE_FUA);
 		mutex_unlock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
 	}
 
_

-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>