xfs: fix COW writeback race

Christoph Hellwig · djwong · commit d2b3964a0780 · 2017-01-23T10:55:07.000-08:00
Due to the way how xfs_iomap_write_allocate tries to convert the whole
found extents from delalloc to real space we can run into a race
condition with multiple threads doing writes to this same extent.
For the non-COW case that is harmless as the only thing that can happen
is that we call xfs_bmapi_write on an extent that has already been
converted to a real allocation.  For COW writes where we move the extent
from the COW to the data fork after I/O completion the race is, however,
not quite as harmless.  In the worst case we are now calling
xfs_bmapi_write on a region that contains hole in the COW work, which
will trip up an assert in debug builds or lead to file system corruption
in non-debug builds.  This seems to be reproducible with workloads of
small O_DSYNC write, although so far I've not managed to come up with
a with an isolated reproducer.

The fix for the issue is relatively simple:  tell xfs_bmapi_write
that we are only asked to convert delayed allocations and skip holes
in that case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
@@ -4514,8 +4514,6 @@ xfs_bmapi_write(
 	int			n;		/* current extent index */
 	xfs_fileoff_t		obno;		/* old block number (offset) */
 	int			whichfork;	/* data or attr fork */
-	char			inhole;		/* current location is hole in file */
-	char			wasdelay;	/* old extent was delayed */
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
 	xfs_fileoff_t		orig_bno;	/* original block number value */
@@ -4603,22 +4601,44 @@ xfs_bmapi_write(
 	bma.firstblock = firstblock;
 
 	while (bno < end && n < *nmap) {
-		inhole = eof || bma.got.br_startoff > bno;
-		wasdelay = !inhole && isnullstartblock(bma.got.br_startblock);
+		bool			need_alloc = false, wasdelay = false;
 
-		/*
-		 * Make sure we only reflink into a hole.
-		 */
-		if (flags & XFS_BMAPI_REMAP)
-			ASSERT(inhole);
-		if (flags & XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK)
-			ASSERT(!inhole);
+		/* in hole or beyoned EOF? */
+		if (eof || bma.got.br_startoff > bno) {
+			if (flags & XFS_BMAPI_DELALLOC) {
+				/*
+				 * For the COW fork we can reasonably get a
+				 * request for converting an extent that races
+				 * with other threads already having converted
+				 * part of it, as there converting COW to
+				 * regular blocks is not protected using the
+				 * IOLOCK.
+				 */
+				ASSERT(flags & XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK);
+				if (!(flags & XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK)) {
+					error = -EIO;
+					goto error0;
+				}
+
+				if (eof || bno >= end)
+					break;
+			} else {
+				need_alloc = true;
+			}
+		} else {
+			/*
+			 * Make sure we only reflink into a hole.
+			 */
+			ASSERT(!(flags & XFS_BMAPI_REMAP));
+			if (isnullstartblock(bma.got.br_startblock))
+				wasdelay = true;
+		}
 
 		/*
 		 * First, deal with the hole before the allocated space
 		 * that we found, if any.
 		 */
-		if (inhole || wasdelay) {
+		if (need_alloc || wasdelay) {
 			bma.eof = eof;
 			bma.conv = !!(flags & XFS_BMAPI_CONVERT);
 			bma.wasdel = wasdelay;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.h
@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ struct xfs_extent_free_item
 /* Map something in the CoW fork. */
 #define XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK	0x200
 
+/* Only convert delalloc space, don't allocate entirely new extents */
+#define XFS_BMAPI_DELALLOC	0x400
+
 #define XFS_BMAPI_FLAGS \
 	{ XFS_BMAPI_ENTIRE,	"ENTIRE" }, \
 	{ XFS_BMAPI_METADATA,	"METADATA" }, \
@@ -120,7 +123,8 @@ struct xfs_extent_free_item
 	{ XFS_BMAPI_CONVERT,	"CONVERT" }, \
 	{ XFS_BMAPI_ZERO,	"ZERO" }, \
 	{ XFS_BMAPI_REMAP,	"REMAP" }, \
-	{ XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK,	"COWFORK" }
+	{ XFS_BMAPI_COWFORK,	"COWFORK" }, \
+	{ XFS_BMAPI_DELALLOC,	"DELALLOC" }
 
 
 static inline int xfs_bmapi_aflag(int w)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ xfs_iomap_write_allocate(
 	xfs_trans_t	*tp;
 	int		nimaps;
 	int		error = 0;
-	int		flags = 0;
+	int		flags = XFS_BMAPI_DELALLOC;
 	int		nres;
 
 	if (whichfork == XFS_COW_FORK)
