linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 087/217] jbd2: fix FS corruption possibility in jbd2_journal

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:02:21 +0200
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	"OGAWA Hirofumi" <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 087/217] jbd2: fix FS corruption possibility in
 jbd2_journal_destroy() on umount path

3.16.35-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>

commit c0a2ad9b50dd80eeccd73d9ff962234590d5ec93 upstream.

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.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 fs/jbd2/journal.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -1423,11 +1423,12 @@ 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;
 
@@ -1445,7 +1446,7 @@ 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);
@@ -1730,7 +1731,13 @@ 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;
@@ -1991,7 +1998,7 @@ 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);
@@ -2037,7 +2044,7 @@ 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);
 	}