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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:40:24 +0300
From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>
To: dsterba@...e.cz, Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
erhard_f@...lbox.org, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
stable@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: fix allocation of bitmap pages.
On 26.08.19 г. 18:37 ч., David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 03:05:55PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> Various notifications of type "BUG kmalloc-4096 () : Redzone
>> overwritten" have been observed recently in various parts of
>> the kernel. After some time, it has been made a relation with
>> the use of BTRFS filesystem.
>>
>> [ 22.809700] BUG kmalloc-4096 (Tainted: G W ): Redzone overwritten
>> [ 22.809971] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> [ 22.810286] INFO: 0xbe1a5921-0xfbfc06cd. First byte 0x0 instead of 0xcc
>> [ 22.810866] INFO: Allocated in __load_free_space_cache+0x588/0x780 [btrfs] age=22 cpu=0 pid=224
>> [ 22.811193] __slab_alloc.constprop.26+0x44/0x70
>> [ 22.811345] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xf0/0x2ec
>> [ 22.811588] __load_free_space_cache+0x588/0x780 [btrfs]
>> [ 22.811848] load_free_space_cache+0xf4/0x1b0 [btrfs]
>> [ 22.812090] cache_block_group+0x1d0/0x3d0 [btrfs]
>> [ 22.812321] find_free_extent+0x680/0x12a4 [btrfs]
>> [ 22.812549] btrfs_reserve_extent+0xec/0x220 [btrfs]
>> [ 22.812785] btrfs_alloc_tree_block+0x178/0x5f4 [btrfs]
>> [ 22.813032] __btrfs_cow_block+0x150/0x5d4 [btrfs]
>> [ 22.813262] btrfs_cow_block+0x194/0x298 [btrfs]
>> [ 22.813484] commit_cowonly_roots+0x44/0x294 [btrfs]
>> [ 22.813718] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x63c/0xc0c [btrfs]
>> [ 22.813973] close_ctree+0xf8/0x2a4 [btrfs]
>> [ 22.814107] generic_shutdown_super+0x80/0x110
>> [ 22.814250] kill_anon_super+0x18/0x30
>> [ 22.814437] btrfs_kill_super+0x18/0x90 [btrfs]
>> [ 22.814590] INFO: Freed in proc_cgroup_show+0xc0/0x248 age=41 cpu=0 pid=83
>> [ 22.814841] proc_cgroup_show+0xc0/0x248
>> [ 22.814967] proc_single_show+0x54/0x98
>> [ 22.815086] seq_read+0x278/0x45c
>> [ 22.815190] __vfs_read+0x28/0x17c
>> [ 22.815289] vfs_read+0xa8/0x14c
>> [ 22.815381] ksys_read+0x50/0x94
>> [ 22.815475] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38
>>
>> Commit 69d2480456d1 ("btrfs: use copy_page for copying pages instead
>> of memcpy") changed the way bitmap blocks are copied. But allthough
>> bitmaps have the size of a page, they were allocated with kzalloc().
>>
>> Most of the time, kzalloc() allocates aligned blocks of memory, so
>> copy_page() can be used. But when some debug options like SLAB_DEBUG
>> are activated, kzalloc() may return unaligned pointer.
>>
>> On powerpc, memcpy(), copy_page() and other copying functions use
>> 'dcbz' instruction which provides an entire zeroed cacheline to avoid
>> memory read when the intention is to overwrite a full line. Functions
>> like memcpy() are writen to care about partial cachelines at the start
>> and end of the destination, but copy_page() assumes it gets pages. As
>> pages are naturally cache aligned, copy_page() doesn't care about
>> partial lines. This means that when copy_page() is called with a
>> misaligned pointer, a few leading bytes are zeroed.
>>
>> To fix it, allocate bitmaps through kmem_cache instead of using kzalloc()
>> The cache pool is created with PAGE_SIZE alignment constraint.
>>
>> Reported-by: Erhard F. <erhard_f@...lbox.org>
>> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204371
>> Fixes: 69d2480456d1 ("btrfs: use copy_page for copying pages instead of memcpy")
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
>> ---
>> v2: Using kmem_cache instead of get_zeroed_page() in order to benefit from SLAB debugging features like redzone.
>
> I'll take this version, thanks. Though I'm not happy about the allocator
> behaviour. The kmem cache based fix can be backported independently to
> 4.19 regardless of the SL*B fixes.
>
>> +extern struct kmem_cache *btrfs_bitmap_cachep;
>
> I've renamed the cache to btrfs_free_space_bitmap_cachep
>
> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Isn't this obsoleted by
'[PATCH v2 0/2] guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc()' ?
>
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