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Message-ID: <CAL3q7H6G6owDc0nD4gK=YdnApTgL_02XqRq_FpP=05W6oxvjFw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:55:21 +0000
From:   Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...il.com>
To:     bingjingc <bingjingc@...ology.com>
Cc:     Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@...fujitsu.com>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        cccheng@...ology.com, Robbie Ko <robbieko@...ology.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: fix a potential hole-punching failure

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 3:42 AM bingjingc <bingjingc@...ology.com> wrote:
>
> From: BingJing Chang <bingjingc@...ology.com>
>
> In commit d77815461f04 ("btrfs: Avoid trucating page or punching hole
> in a already existed hole."), existed holes can be skipped by calling
> find_first_non_hole() to adjust *start and *len. However, if the given
> len is invalid and large, when an EXTENT_MAP_HOLE extent is found, the
> *len will not be set to zero because (em->start + em->len) is less than
> (*start + *len). Then the ret will be 1 but the *len will not be set to
> 0. The propagated non-zero ret will result in fallocate failure.
>
> In the while-loop of btrfs_replace_file_extents(), len is not updated
> every time before it calls find_first_non_hole(). That is, after
> btrfs_drop_extents() successfully drops the last non-hole file extent,
> it may fail with -ENOSPC when attempting to drop a file extent item
> representing a hole. The problem can happen. After it calls
> find_first_non_hole(), the cur_offset will be adjusted to be larger
> than or equal to end. However, since the len is not set to zero. The
> break-loop condition (ret && !len) will not meet. After it leaves the
> while-loop, fallocate will return 1, which is an unexpected return
> value.
>
> We're not able to construct a reproducible way to let
> btrfs_drop_extents() fail with -ENOSPC after it drops the last non-hole
> file extent but with remaining holes left. However, it's quite easy to
> fix. We just need to update and check the len every time before we call
> find_first_non_hole(). To make the while loop more readable, we also
> pull the variable updates to the bottom of loop like this:
> while (cur_offset < end) {
>         ...
>         // update cur_offset & len
>         // advance cur_offset & len in hole-punching case if needed
> }
>
> Reported-by: Robbie Ko <robbieko@...ology.com>
> Fixes: d77815461f04 ("btrfs: Avoid trucating page or punching hole in a
> already existed hole.")
> Reviewed-by: Robbie Ko <robbieko@...ology.com>
> Reviewed-by: Chung-Chiang Cheng <cccheng@...ology.com>
> Signed-off-by: BingJing Chang <bingjingc@...ology.com>

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

Looks good, thanks.

> ---
>  fs/btrfs/file.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> index 0e155f0..dccb017 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> @@ -2735,8 +2735,6 @@ int btrfs_replace_file_extents(struct inode *inode, struct btrfs_path *path,
>                         extent_info->file_offset += replace_len;
>                 }
>
> -               cur_offset = drop_args.drop_end;
> -
>                 ret = btrfs_update_inode(trans, root, BTRFS_I(inode));
>                 if (ret)
>                         break;
> @@ -2756,7 +2754,9 @@ int btrfs_replace_file_extents(struct inode *inode, struct btrfs_path *path,
>                 BUG_ON(ret);    /* shouldn't happen */
>                 trans->block_rsv = rsv;
>
> -               if (!extent_info) {
> +               cur_offset = drop_args.drop_end;
> +               len = end - cur_offset;
> +               if (!extent_info && len) {
>                         ret = find_first_non_hole(BTRFS_I(inode), &cur_offset,
>                                                   &len);
>                         if (unlikely(ret < 0))
> --
> 2.7.4
>


-- 
Filipe David Manana,

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