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ext4: Fix race between read_block_bitmap() and mark_diskspace_used()
authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:58:33 +0000 (10:58 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:37:10 +0000 (14:37 -0800)
commita07daf9af79b827bff630f6f9be4729de3a54eea
tree761f63a0c1db7ad8d350991a78b81b00c9673386
parent919a7cd36ae67ccc0a5e44b7a44a96065b11aa01
ext4: Fix race between read_block_bitmap() and mark_diskspace_used()

(cherry picked from commit e8134b27e351e813414da3b95aa8eac6d3908088)

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/ext4/mballoc.c