6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1@huawei.com
commit 2a0629834cd82f05d424bbc193374f9a43d1f87d upstream.
The inode reclaiming process(See function prune_icache_sb) collects all reclaimable inodes and mark them with I_FREEING flag at first, at that time, other processes will be stuck if they try getting these inodes (See function find_inode_fast), then the reclaiming process destroy the inodes by function dispose_list(). Some filesystems(eg. ext4 with ea_inode feature, ubifs with xattr) may do inode lookup in the inode evicting callback function, if the inode lookup is operated under the inode lru traversing context, deadlock problems may happen.
Case 1: In function ext4_evict_inode(), the ea inode lookup could happen if ea_inode feature is enabled, the lookup process will be stuck under the evicting context like this:
1. File A has inode i_reg and an ea inode i_ea 2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // i_ea is added into lru // lru->i_ea 3. Then, following three processes running like this:
PA PB echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches shrink_slab prune_dcache_sb // i_reg is added into lru, lru->i_ea->i_reg prune_icache_sb list_lru_walk_one inode_lru_isolate i_ea->i_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state inode_lru_isolate __iget(i_reg) spin_unlock(&i_reg->i_lock) spin_unlock(lru_lock) rm file A i_reg->nlink = 0 iput(i_reg) // i_reg->nlink is 0, do evict ext4_evict_inode ext4_xattr_delete_inode ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all ext4_xattr_inode_iget ext4_iget(i_ea->i_ino) iget_locked find_inode_fast __wait_on_freeing_inode(i_ea) ----→ AA deadlock dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb wake_up_bit(&i_ea->i_state)
Case 2: In deleted inode writing function ubifs_jnl_write_inode(), file deleting process holds BASEHD's wbuf->io_mutex while getting the xattr inode, which could race with inode reclaiming process(The reclaiming process could try locking BASEHD's wbuf->io_mutex in inode evicting function), then an ABBA deadlock problem would happen as following:
1. File A has inode ia and a xattr(with inode ixa), regular file B has inode ib and a xattr. 2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // ixa is added into lru // lru->ixa 3. Then, following three processes running like this:
PA PB PC echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches shrink_slab prune_dcache_sb // ib and ia are added into lru, lru->ixa->ib->ia prune_icache_sb list_lru_walk_one inode_lru_isolate ixa->i_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state inode_lru_isolate __iget(ib) spin_unlock(&ib->i_lock) spin_unlock(lru_lock) rm file B ib->nlink = 0 rm file A iput(ia) ubifs_evict_inode(ia) ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ia) ubifs_jnl_write_inode(ia) make_reservation(BASEHD) // Lock wbuf->io_mutex ubifs_iget(ixa->i_ino) iget_locked find_inode_fast __wait_on_freeing_inode(ixa) | iput(ib) // ib->nlink is 0, do evict | ubifs_evict_inode | ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ib) ↓ ubifs_jnl_write_inode ABBA deadlock ←-----make_reservation(BASEHD) dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb wake_up_bit(&ixa->i_state)
Fix the possible deadlock by using new inode state flag I_LRU_ISOLATING to pin the inode in memory while inode_lru_isolate() reclaims its pages instead of using ordinary inode reference. This way inode deletion cannot be triggered from inode_lru_isolate() thus avoiding the deadlock. evict() is made to wait for I_LRU_ISOLATING to be cleared before proceeding with inode cleanup.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/37c29c42-7685-d1f0-067d-63582ffac405@huaweicloud... Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219022 Fixes: e50e5129f384 ("ext4: xattr-in-inode support") Fixes: 7959cf3a7506 ("ubifs: journal: Handle xattrs like files") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1@huawei.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240809031628.1069873-1-chengzhihao@huaweicloud.c... Reviewed-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Suggested-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Suggested-by: Mateusz Guzik mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/inode.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- include/linux/fs.h | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -486,6 +486,39 @@ static void inode_lru_list_del(struct in this_cpu_dec(nr_unused); }
+static void inode_pin_lru_isolating(struct inode *inode) +{ + lockdep_assert_held(&inode->i_lock); + WARN_ON(inode->i_state & (I_LRU_ISOLATING | I_FREEING | I_WILL_FREE)); + inode->i_state |= I_LRU_ISOLATING; +} + +static void inode_unpin_lru_isolating(struct inode *inode) +{ + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); + WARN_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_LRU_ISOLATING)); + inode->i_state &= ~I_LRU_ISOLATING; + smp_mb(); + wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_LRU_ISOLATING); + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); +} + +static void inode_wait_for_lru_isolating(struct inode *inode) +{ + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); + if (inode->i_state & I_LRU_ISOLATING) { + DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wq, &inode->i_state, __I_LRU_ISOLATING); + wait_queue_head_t *wqh; + + wqh = bit_waitqueue(&inode->i_state, __I_LRU_ISOLATING); + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); + __wait_on_bit(wqh, &wq, bit_wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); + WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_LRU_ISOLATING); + } + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); +} + /** * inode_sb_list_add - add inode to the superblock list of inodes * @inode: inode to add @@ -654,6 +687,8 @@ static void evict(struct inode *inode)
inode_sb_list_del(inode);
+ inode_wait_for_lru_isolating(inode); + /* * Wait for flusher thread to be done with the inode so that filesystem * does not start destroying it while writeback is still running. Since @@ -842,7 +877,7 @@ static enum lru_status inode_lru_isolate * be under pressure before the cache inside the highmem zone. */ if (inode_has_buffers(inode) || !mapping_empty(&inode->i_data)) { - __iget(inode); + inode_pin_lru_isolating(inode); spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); spin_unlock(lru_lock); if (remove_inode_buffers(inode)) { @@ -854,7 +889,7 @@ static enum lru_status inode_lru_isolate __count_vm_events(PGINODESTEAL, reap); mm_account_reclaimed_pages(reap); } - iput(inode); + inode_unpin_lru_isolating(inode); spin_lock(lru_lock); return LRU_RETRY; } --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2265,6 +2265,9 @@ static inline void kiocb_clone(struct ki * * I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB Inode is pinning an fscache object for writeback. * + * I_LRU_ISOLATING Inode is pinned being isolated from LRU without holding + * i_count. + * * Q: What is the difference between I_WILL_FREE and I_FREEING? */ #define I_DIRTY_SYNC (1 << 0) @@ -2288,6 +2291,8 @@ static inline void kiocb_clone(struct ki #define I_DONTCACHE (1 << 16) #define I_SYNC_QUEUED (1 << 17) #define I_PINNING_FSCACHE_WB (1 << 18) +#define __I_LRU_ISOLATING 19 +#define I_LRU_ISOLATING (1 << __I_LRU_ISOLATING)
#define I_DIRTY_INODE (I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) #define I_DIRTY (I_DIRTY_INODE | I_DIRTY_PAGES)