There is a race between mca_reap(), btree_node_free() and journal code btree_flush_write(), which results very rare and strange deadlock or panic and are very hard to reproduce.

Let me explain how the race happens. In btree_flush_write() one btree node with oldest journal pin is selected, then it is flushed to cache device, the select-and-flush is a two steps operation. Between these two steps, there are something may happen inside the race window, - The selected btree node was reaped by mca_reap() and allocated to other requesters for other btree node. - The slected btree node was selected, flushed and released by mca shrink callback bch_mca_scan(). When btree_flush_write() tries to flush the selected btree node, firstly b->write_lock is held by mutex_lock(). If the race happens and the memory of selected btree node is allocated to other btree node, if that btree node's write_lock is held already, a deadlock very probably happens here. A worse case is the memory of the selected btree node is released, then all references to this btree node (e.g. b->write_lock) will trigger NULL pointer deference panic.

This race was introduced in commit cafe56359144 ("bcache: A block layer cache"), and enlarged by commit c4dc2497d50d ("bcache: fix high CPU occupancy during journal"), which selected 128 btree nodes and flushed them one-by-one in a quite long time period.

Such race is not easy to reproduce before. On a Lenovo SR650 server with 48 Xeon cores, and configure 1 NVMe SSD as cache device, a MD raid0 device assembled by 3 NVMe SSDs as backing device, this race can be observed around every 10,000 times btree_flush_write() gets called. Both deadlock and kernel panic all happened as aftermath of the race.

The idea of the fix is to add a btree flag BTREE_NODE_journal_flush. It is set when selecting btree nodes, and cleared after btree nodes flushed. Then when mca_reap() selects a btree node with this bit set, this btree node will be skipped. Since mca_reap() only reaps btree node without BTREE_NODE_journal_flush flag, such race is avoided.

Once corner case should be noticed, that is btree_node_free(). It might be called in some error handling code path. For example the following code piece from btree_split(), 2149 err_free2: 2150 bkey_put(b->c, &n2->key); 2151 btree_node_free(n2); 2152 rw_unlock(true, n2); 2153 err_free1: 2154 bkey_put(b->c, &n1->key); 2155 btree_node_free(n1); 2156 rw_unlock(true, n1); At line 2151 and 2155, the btree node n2 and n1 are released without mac_reap(), so BTREE_NODE_journal_flush also needs to be checked here. If btree_node_free() is called directly in such error handling path, and the selected btree node has BTREE_NODE_journal_flush bit set, just delay for 1 us and retry again. In this case this btree node won't be skipped, just retry until the BTREE_NODE_journal_flush bit cleared, and free the btree node memory.

Fixes: cafe56359144 ("bcache: A block layer cache") Signed-off-by: Coly Li colyli@suse.de Reported-and-tested-by: kbuild test robot lkp@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/md/bcache/btree.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/md/bcache/btree.h | 2 ++ drivers/md/bcache/journal.c | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c index 846306c3a887..ba434d9ac720 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ #include <linux/rcupdate.h> #include <linux/sched/clock.h> #include <linux/rculist.h> - +#include <linux/delay.h> #include <trace/events/bcache.h>

/* @@ -659,12 +659,25 @@ static int mca_reap(struct btree *b, unsigned int min_order, bool flush) up(&b->io_mutex); }

+retry: /* * BTREE_NODE_dirty might be cleared in btree_flush_btree() by * __bch_btree_node_write(). To avoid an extra flush, acquire * b->write_lock before checking BTREE_NODE_dirty bit. */ mutex_lock(&b->write_lock); + /* + * If this btree node is selected in btree_flush_write() by journal + * code, delay and retry until the node is flushed by journal code + * and BTREE_NODE_journal_flush bit cleared by btree_flush_write(). + */ + if (btree_node_journal_flush(b)) { + pr_debug("bnode %p is flushing by journal, retry", b); + mutex_unlock(&b->write_lock); + udelay(1); + goto retry; + } + if (btree_node_dirty(b)) __bch_btree_node_write(b, &cl); mutex_unlock(&b->write_lock); @@ -1081,7 +1094,20 @@ static void btree_node_free(struct btree *b)

BUG_ON(b == b->c->root);

+retry: mutex_lock(&b->write_lock); + /* + * If the btree node is selected and flushing in btree_flush_write(), + * delay and retry until the BTREE_NODE_journal_flush bit cleared, + * then it is safe to free the btree node here. Otherwise this btree + * node will be in race condition. + */ + if (btree_node_journal_flush(b)) { + mutex_unlock(&b->write_lock); + pr_debug("bnode %p journal_flush set, retry", b); + udelay(1); + goto retry; + }

if (btree_node_dirty(b)) { btree_complete_write(b, btree_current_write(b)); diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.h b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.h index d1c72ef64edf..76cfd121a486 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.h +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.h @@ -158,11 +158,13 @@ enum btree_flags { BTREE_NODE_io_error, BTREE_NODE_dirty, BTREE_NODE_write_idx, + BTREE_NODE_journal_flush, };

BTREE_FLAG(io_error); BTREE_FLAG(dirty); BTREE_FLAG(write_idx); +BTREE_FLAG(journal_flush);

static inline struct btree_write *btree_current_write(struct btree *b) { diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c index 1218e3cada3c..a1e3e1fcea6e 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c @@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ static void btree_flush_write(struct cache_set *c) retry: best = NULL;

+ mutex_lock(&c->bucket_lock); for_each_cached_btree(b, c, i) if (btree_current_write(b)->journal) { if (!best) @@ -442,15 +443,21 @@ static void btree_flush_write(struct cache_set *c) }

b = best; + if (b) + set_btree_node_journal_flush(b); + mutex_unlock(&c->bucket_lock); + if (b) { mutex_lock(&b->write_lock); if (!btree_current_write(b)->journal) { + clear_bit(BTREE_NODE_journal_flush, &b->flags); mutex_unlock(&b->write_lock); /* We raced */ goto retry; }

__bch_btree_node_write(b, NULL); + clear_bit(BTREE_NODE_journal_flush, &b->flags); mutex_unlock(&b->write_lock); } }