From ed8ad83808f009ade97ebbf6519bc3a97fefbc0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:18:25 -0500 Subject: ext4: fix bh->b_state corruption ext4 can update bh->b_state non-atomically in _ext4_get_block() and ext4_da_get_block_prep(). Usually this is fine since bh is just a temporary storage for mapping information on stack but in some cases it can be fully living bh attached to a page. In such case non-atomic update of bh->b_state can race with an atomic update which then gets lost. Usually when we are mapping bh and thus updating bh->b_state non-atomically, nobody else touches the bh and so things work out fine but there is one case to especially worry about: ext4_finish_bio() uses BH_Uptodate_Lock on the first bh in the page to synchronize handling of PageWriteback state. So when blocksize < pagesize, we can be atomically modifying bh->b_state of a buffer that actually isn't under IO and thus can race e.g. with delalloc trying to map that buffer. The result is that we can mistakenly set / clear BH_Uptodate_Lock bit resulting in the corruption of PageWriteback state or missed unlock of BH_Uptodate_Lock. Fix the problem by always updating bh->b_state bits atomically. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4') diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 83bc8bfb3bea..d6674479269d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -686,6 +686,34 @@ out_sem: return retval; } +/* + * Update EXT4_MAP_FLAGS in bh->b_state. For buffer heads attached to pages + * we have to be careful as someone else may be manipulating b_state as well. + */ +static void ext4_update_bh_state(struct buffer_head *bh, unsigned long flags) +{ + unsigned long old_state; + unsigned long new_state; + + flags &= EXT4_MAP_FLAGS; + + /* Dummy buffer_head? Set non-atomically. */ + if (!bh->b_page) { + bh->b_state = (bh->b_state & ~EXT4_MAP_FLAGS) | flags; + return; + } + /* + * Someone else may be modifying b_state. Be careful! This is ugly but + * once we get rid of using bh as a container for mapping information + * to pass to / from get_block functions, this can go away. + */ + do { + old_state = READ_ONCE(bh->b_state); + new_state = (old_state & ~EXT4_MAP_FLAGS) | flags; + } while (unlikely( + cmpxchg(&bh->b_state, old_state, new_state) != old_state)); +} + /* Maximum number of blocks we map for direct IO at once. */ #define DIO_MAX_BLOCKS 4096 @@ -722,7 +750,7 @@ static int _ext4_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, ext4_io_end_t *io_end = ext4_inode_aio(inode); map_bh(bh, inode->i_sb, map.m_pblk); - bh->b_state = (bh->b_state & ~EXT4_MAP_FLAGS) | map.m_flags; + ext4_update_bh_state(bh, map.m_flags); if (io_end && io_end->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN) set_buffer_defer_completion(bh); bh->b_size = inode->i_sb->s_blocksize * map.m_len; @@ -1685,7 +1713,7 @@ int ext4_da_get_block_prep(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, return ret; map_bh(bh, inode->i_sb, map.m_pblk); - bh->b_state = (bh->b_state & ~EXT4_MAP_FLAGS) | map.m_flags; + ext4_update_bh_state(bh, map.m_flags); if (buffer_unwritten(bh)) { /* A delayed write to unwritten bh should be marked -- cgit v1.2.3