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The special processing used to simulate a buffer I/O failure on fs shutdown has a difficult to reproduce race that can result in a use after free of the associated buffer. Consider a buffer that has been committed to the on-disk log and thus is AIL resident. The buffer lands on the writeback delwri queue, but is subsequently locked, committed and pinned by another transaction before submitted for I/O. At this point, the buffer is stuck on the delwri queue as it cannot be submitted for I/O until it is unpinned. A log checkpoint I/O failure occurs sometime later, which aborts the bli. The unpin handler is called with the aborted log item, drops the bli reference count, the pin count, and falls into the I/O failure simulation path. The potential problem here is that once the pin count falls to zero in ->iop_unpin(), xfsaild is free to retry delwri submission of the buffer at any time, before the unpin handler even completes. If delwri queue submission wins the race to the buffer lock, it observes the shutdown state and simulates the I/O failure itself. This releases both the bli and delwri queue holds and frees the buffer while xfs_buf_item_unpin() sits on xfs_buf_lock() waiting to run through the same failure sequence. This problem is rare and requires many iterations of fstest generic/019 (which simulates disk I/O failures) to reproduce. To avoid this problem, grab a hold on the buffer before the log item is unpinned if the associated item has been aborted and will require a simulated I/O failure. The hold is already required for the simulated I/O failure, so the ordering simply guarantees the unpin handler access to the buffer before it is unpinned and thus processed by the AIL. This particular ordering is required so long as the AIL does not acquire a reference on the bli, which is the long term solution to this problem. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.