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ext4: Fix race between read_block_bitmap() and mark_diskspace_used() 

We need to make sure we update the block bitmap and clear
EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag with sb_bgl_lock held, since
ext4_read_block_bitmap() looks at EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT to decide
whether to initialize the block bitmap each time it is called
(introduced by commit c806e68f), and this can race with block
allocations in ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used().

ext4_read_block_bitmap does:

spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
	ext4_init_block_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);

Now on the block allocation side we do

mb_set_bits(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group), bitmap_bh->b_data,
			ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len);
....
spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group));
if (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
	gdp->bg_flags &= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT);

ie on allocation we update the bitmap then we take the sb_bgl_lock
and clear the EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag. What can happen is a
parallel ext4_read_block_bitmap can zero out the bitmap in between
the above mb_set_bits and spin_lock(sb_bg_lock..)

The race results in below user visible errors
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_release_inode_pa: free 100, pa_free 105
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): mb_free_blocks: double-free of inode 0's block ..

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
This commit is contained in:
Aneesh Kumar K.V 2009-01-05 21:38:26 -05:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 5d1b1b3f49
commit e8134b27e3
1 changed files with 10 additions and 5 deletions
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fs/ext4/mballoc.c
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@ -1070,7 +1070,10 @@ static void mb_clear_bits(spinlock_t *lock, void *bm, int cur, int len)
cur += 32;
continue;
}
mb_clear_bit_atomic(lock, cur, bm);
if (lock)
mb_clear_bit_atomic(lock, cur, bm);
else
mb_clear_bit(cur, bm);
cur++;
}
}
@ -1088,7 +1091,10 @@ static void mb_set_bits(spinlock_t *lock, void *bm, int cur, int len)
cur += 32;
continue;
}
mb_set_bit_atomic(lock, cur, bm);
if (lock)
mb_set_bit_atomic(lock, cur, bm);
else
mb_set_bit(cur, bm);
cur++;
}
}
@ -3035,10 +3041,9 @@ ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac,
}
}
#endif
mb_set_bits(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group), bitmap_bh->b_data,
ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len);
spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group));
mb_set_bits(NULL, bitmap_bh->b_data,
ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len);
if (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
gdp->bg_flags &= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT);
gdp->bg_free_blocks_count =