The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 7f458a3873ae94efe1f37c8b96c97e7298769e98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 11:07:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: fix race when defragmenting leads to unnecessary IO
When defragmenting we skip ranges that have holes or inline extents, so that we don't do unnecessary IO and waste space. We do this check when calling should_defrag_range() at btrfs_defrag_file(). However we do it without holding the inode's lock. The reason we do it like this is to avoid blocking other tasks for too long, that possibly want to operate on other file ranges, since after the call to should_defrag_range() and before locking the inode, we trigger a synchronous page cache readahead. However before we were able to lock the inode, some other task might have punched a hole in our range, or we may now have an inline extent there, in which case we should not set the range for defrag anymore since that would cause unnecessary IO and make us waste space (i.e. allocating extents to contain zeros for a hole).
So after we locked the inode and the range in the iotree, check again if we have holes or an inline extent, and if we do, just skip the range.
I hit this while testing my next patch that fixes races when updating an inode's number of bytes (subject "btrfs: update the number of bytes used by an inode atomically"), and it depends on this change in order to work correctly. Alternatively I could rework that other patch to detect holes and flag their range with the 'new delalloc' bit, but this itself fixes an efficiency problem due a race that from a functional point of view is not harmful (it could be triggered with btrfs/062 from fstests).
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+ Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c index ea40a19cc4cb..2904f92c3813 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c @@ -1275,6 +1275,7 @@ static int cluster_pages_for_defrag(struct inode *inode, u64 page_end; u64 page_cnt; u64 start = (u64)start_index << PAGE_SHIFT; + u64 search_start; int ret; int i; int i_done; @@ -1371,6 +1372,40 @@ static int cluster_pages_for_defrag(struct inode *inode,
lock_extent_bits(&BTRFS_I(inode)->io_tree, page_start, page_end - 1, &cached_state); + + /* + * When defragmenting we skip ranges that have holes or inline extents, + * (check should_defrag_range()), to avoid unnecessary IO and wasting + * space. At btrfs_defrag_file(), we check if a range should be defragged + * before locking the inode and then, if it should, we trigger a sync + * page cache readahead - we lock the inode only after that to avoid + * blocking for too long other tasks that possibly want to operate on + * other file ranges. But before we were able to get the inode lock, + * some other task may have punched a hole in the range, or we may have + * now an inline extent, in which case we should not defrag. So check + * for that here, where we have the inode and the range locked, and bail + * out if that happened. + */ + search_start = page_start; + while (search_start < page_end) { + struct extent_map *em; + + em = btrfs_get_extent(BTRFS_I(inode), NULL, 0, search_start, + page_end - search_start); + if (IS_ERR(em)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(em); + goto out_unlock_range; + } + if (em->block_start >= EXTENT_MAP_LAST_BYTE) { + free_extent_map(em); + /* Ok, 0 means we did not defrag anything */ + ret = 0; + goto out_unlock_range; + } + search_start = extent_map_end(em); + free_extent_map(em); + } + clear_extent_bit(&BTRFS_I(inode)->io_tree, page_start, page_end - 1, EXTENT_DELALLOC | EXTENT_DO_ACCOUNTING | EXTENT_DEFRAG, 0, 0, &cached_state); @@ -1401,6 +1436,10 @@ static int cluster_pages_for_defrag(struct inode *inode, btrfs_delalloc_release_extents(BTRFS_I(inode), page_cnt << PAGE_SHIFT); extent_changeset_free(data_reserved); return i_done; + +out_unlock_range: + unlock_extent_cached(&BTRFS_I(inode)->io_tree, + page_start, page_end - 1, &cached_state); out: for (i = 0; i < i_done; i++) { unlock_page(pages[i]);