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Date:   Wed, 17 Jun 2020 19:51:22 +0100
From:   Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...il.com>
To:     Boris Burkov <boris@....io>
Cc:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 btrfs/for-next] btrfs: fix fatal extent_buffer
 readahead vs releasepage race

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 7:39 PM Boris Burkov <boris@....io> wrote:
>
> Under somewhat convoluted conditions, it is possible to attempt to
> release an extent_buffer that is under io, which triggers a BUG_ON in
> btrfs_release_extent_buffer_pages.
>
> This relies on a few different factors. First, extent_buffer reads done
> as readahead for searching use WAIT_NONE, so they free the local extent
> buffer reference while the io is outstanding. However, they should still
> be protected by TREE_REF. However, if the system is doing signficant
> reclaim, and simultaneously heavily accessing the extent_buffers, it is
> possible for releasepage to race with two concurrent readahead attempts
> in a way that leaves TREE_REF unset when the readahead extent buffer is
> released.
>
> Essentially, if two tasks race to allocate a new extent_buffer, but the
> winner who attempts the first io is rebuffed by a page being locked
> (likely by the reclaim itself) then the loser will still go ahead with
> issuing the readahead. The loser's call to find_extent_buffer must also
> race with the reclaim task reading the extent_buffer's refcount as 1 in
> a way that allows the reclaim to re-clear the TREE_REF checked by
> find_extent_buffer.
>
> The following represents an example execution demonstrating the race:
>
>             CPU0                                                         CPU1                                           CPU2
> reada_for_search                                            reada_for_search
>   readahead_tree_block                                        readahead_tree_block
>     find_create_tree_block                                      find_create_tree_block
>       alloc_extent_buffer                                         alloc_extent_buffer
>                                                                   find_extent_buffer // not found
>                                                                   allocates eb
>                                                                   lock pages
>                                                                   associate pages to eb
>                                                                   insert eb into radix tree
>                                                                   set TREE_REF, refs == 2
>                                                                   unlock pages
>                                                               read_extent_buffer_pages // WAIT_NONE
>                                                                 not uptodate (brand new eb)
>                                                                                                             lock_page
>                                                                 if !trylock_page
>                                                                   goto unlock_exit // not an error
>                                                               free_extent_buffer
>                                                                 release_extent_buffer
>                                                                   atomic_dec_and_test refs to 1
>         find_extent_buffer // found
>                                                                                                             try_release_extent_buffer
>                                                                                                               take refs_lock
>                                                                                                               reads refs == 1; no io
>           atomic_inc_not_zero refs to 2
>           mark_buffer_accessed
>             check_buffer_tree_ref
>               // not STALE, won't take refs_lock
>               refs == 2; TREE_REF set // no action
>     read_extent_buffer_pages // WAIT_NONE
>                                                                                                               clear TREE_REF
>                                                                                                               release_extent_buffer
>                                                                                                                 atomic_dec_and_test refs to 1
>                                                                                                                 unlock_page
>       still not uptodate (CPU1 read failed on trylock_page)
>       locks pages
>       set io_pages > 0
>       submit io
>       return
>     free_extent_buffer
>       release_extent_buffer
>         dec refs to 0
>         delete from radix tree
>         btrfs_release_extent_buffer_pages
>           BUG_ON(io_pages > 0)!!!
>
> We observe this at a very low rate in production and were also able to
> reproduce it in a test environment by introducing some spurious delays
> and by introducing probabilistic trylock_page failures.
>
> To fix it, we apply check_tree_ref at a point where it could not
> possibly be unset by a competing task: after io_pages has been
> incremented. All the codepaths that clear TREE_REF check for io, so they
> would not be able to clear it after this point until the io is done.
>
> stack trace, for reference:
> [1417839.424739] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [1417839.435328] kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:4841!
> [1417839.447024] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [1417839.502972] RIP: 0010:btrfs_release_extent_buffer_pages+0x20/0x1f0
> [1417839.517008] Code: ed e9 ...
> [1417839.558895] RSP: 0018:ffffc90020bcf798 EFLAGS: 00010202
> [1417839.570816] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff888102d6def0 RCX:
> 0000000000000028
> [1417839.586962] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffff8887f0296482 RDI:
> ffff888102d6def0
> [1417839.603108] RBP: ffff88885664a000 R08: 0000000000000046 R09:
> 0000000000000238
> [1417839.619255] R10: 0000000000000028 R11: ffff88885664af68 R12:
> 0000000000000000
> [1417839.635402] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88875f573ad0 R15:
> ffff888797aafd90
> [1417839.651549] FS:  00007f5a844fa700(0000) GS:ffff88885f680000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> [1417839.669810] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [1417839.682887] CR2: 00007f7884541fe0 CR3: 000000049f609002 CR4:
> 00000000003606e0
> [1417839.699037] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:
> 0000000000000000
> [1417839.715187] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7:
> 0000000000000400
> [1417839.731320] Call Trace:
> [1417839.737103]  release_extent_buffer+0x39/0x90
> [1417839.746913]  read_block_for_search.isra.38+0x2a3/0x370
> [1417839.758645]  btrfs_search_slot+0x260/0x9b0
> [1417839.768054]  btrfs_lookup_file_extent+0x4a/0x70
> [1417839.778427]  btrfs_get_extent+0x15f/0x830
> [1417839.787665]  ? submit_extent_page+0xc4/0x1c0
> [1417839.797474]  ? __do_readpage+0x299/0x7a0
> [1417839.806515]  __do_readpage+0x33b/0x7a0
> [1417839.815171]  ? btrfs_releasepage+0x70/0x70
> [1417839.824597]  extent_readpages+0x28f/0x400
> [1417839.833836]  read_pages+0x6a/0x1c0
> [1417839.841729]  ? startup_64+0x2/0x30
> [1417839.849624]  __do_page_cache_readahead+0x13c/0x1a0
> [1417839.860590]  filemap_fault+0x6c7/0x990
> [1417839.869252]  ? xas_load+0x8/0x80
> [1417839.876756]  ? xas_find+0x150/0x190
> [1417839.884839]  ? filemap_map_pages+0x295/0x3b0
> [1417839.894652]  __do_fault+0x32/0x110
> [1417839.902540]  __handle_mm_fault+0xacd/0x1000
> [1417839.912156]  handle_mm_fault+0xaa/0x1c0
> [1417839.921004]  __do_page_fault+0x242/0x4b0
> [1417839.930044]  ? page_fault+0x8/0x30
> [1417839.937933]  page_fault+0x1e/0x30
> [1417839.945631] RIP: 0033:0x33c4bae
> [1417839.952927] Code: Bad RIP value.
> [1417839.960411] RSP: 002b:00007f5a844f7350 EFLAGS: 00010206
> [1417839.972331] RAX: 000000000000006e RBX: 1614b3ff6a50398a RCX:
> 0000000000000000
> [1417839.988477] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI:
> 0000000000000002
> [1417840.004626] RBP: 00007f5a844f7420 R08: 000000000000006e R09:
> 00007f5a94aeccb8
> [1417840.020784] R10: 00007f5a844f7350 R11: 0000000000000000 R12:
> 00007f5a94aecc79
> [1417840.036932] R13: 00007f5a94aecc78 R14: 00007f5a94aecc90 R15:
> 00007f5a94aecc40
>
> Signed-off-by: Boris Burkov <boris@....io>

Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...e.com>

Looks good, thanks!

> ---
>  fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> index c59e07360083..95313bb7fe40 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> @@ -5086,25 +5086,28 @@ struct extent_buffer *alloc_dummy_extent_buffer(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
>  static void check_buffer_tree_ref(struct extent_buffer *eb)
>  {
>         int refs;
> -       /* the ref bit is tricky.  We have to make sure it is set
> -        * if we have the buffer dirty.   Otherwise the
> -        * code to free a buffer can end up dropping a dirty
> -        * page
> +       /*
> +        * The TREE_REF bit is first set when the extent_buffer is added
> +        * to the radix tree. It is also reset, if unset, when a new reference
> +        * is created by find_extent_buffer.
>          *
> -        * Once the ref bit is set, it won't go away while the
> -        * buffer is dirty or in writeback, and it also won't
> -        * go away while we have the reference count on the
> -        * eb bumped.
> +        * It is only cleared in two cases: freeing the last non-tree
> +        * reference to the extent_buffer when its STALE bit is set or
> +        * calling releasepage when the tree reference is the only reference.
>          *
> -        * We can't just set the ref bit without bumping the
> -        * ref on the eb because free_extent_buffer might
> -        * see the ref bit and try to clear it.  If this happens
> -        * free_extent_buffer might end up dropping our original
> -        * ref by mistake and freeing the page before we are able
> -        * to add one more ref.
> +        * In both cases, care is taken to ensure that the extent_buffer's
> +        * pages are not under io. However, releasepage can be concurrently
> +        * called with creating new references, which is prone to race
> +        * conditions between the calls to check_buffer_tree_ref in those
> +        * codepaths and clearing TREE_REF in try_release_extent_buffer.
>          *
> -        * So bump the ref count first, then set the bit.  If someone
> -        * beat us to it, drop the ref we added.
> +        * The actual lifetime of the extent_buffer in the radix tree is
> +        * adequately protected by the refcount, but the TREE_REF bit and
> +        * its corresponding reference are not. To protect against this
> +        * class of races, we call check_buffer_tree_ref from the codepaths
> +        * which trigger io after they set eb->io_pages. Note that once io is
> +        * initiated, TREE_REF can no longer be cleared, so that is the
> +        * moment at which any such race is best fixed.
>          */
>         refs = atomic_read(&eb->refs);
>         if (refs >= 2 && test_bit(EXTENT_BUFFER_TREE_REF, &eb->bflags))
> @@ -5555,6 +5558,11 @@ int read_extent_buffer_pages(struct extent_buffer *eb, int wait, int mirror_num)
>         clear_bit(EXTENT_BUFFER_READ_ERR, &eb->bflags);
>         eb->read_mirror = 0;
>         atomic_set(&eb->io_pages, num_reads);
> +       /*
> +        * It is possible for releasepage to clear the TREE_REF bit before we
> +        * set io_pages. See check_buffer_tree_ref for a more detailed comment.
> +        */
> +       check_buffer_tree_ref(eb);
>         for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++) {
>                 page = eb->pages[i];
>
> --
> 2.24.1
>


-- 
Filipe David Manana,

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