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authorBoris Burkov <boris@bur.io>2025-10-01 17:20:22 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-02-19 16:25:15 +0100
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tree4221aec911b1ee25b221ca4325c37757907443be
parenta29215961d833f4de33a09c3964d31ebc6083033 (diff)
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btrfs: fix racy bitfield write in btrfs_clear_space_info_full()
commit 38e818718c5e04961eea0fa8feff3f100ce40408 upstream. From the memory-barriers.txt document regarding memory barrier ordering guarantees: (*) These guarantees do not apply to bitfields, because compilers often generate code to modify these using non-atomic read-modify-write sequences. Do not attempt to use bitfields to synchronize parallel algorithms. (*) Even in cases where bitfields are protected by locks, all fields in a given bitfield must be protected by one lock. If two fields in a given bitfield are protected by different locks, the compiler's non-atomic read-modify-write sequences can cause an update to one field to corrupt the value of an adjacent field. btrfs_space_info has a bitfield sharing an underlying word consisting of the fields full, chunk_alloc, and flush: struct btrfs_space_info { struct btrfs_fs_info * fs_info; /* 0 8 */ struct btrfs_space_info * parent; /* 8 8 */ ... int clamp; /* 172 4 */ unsigned int full:1; /* 176: 0 4 */ unsigned int chunk_alloc:1; /* 176: 1 4 */ unsigned int flush:1; /* 176: 2 4 */ ... Therefore, to be safe from parallel read-modify-writes losing a write to one of the bitfield members protected by a lock, all writes to all the bitfields must use the lock. They almost universally do, except for btrfs_clear_space_info_full() which iterates over the space_infos and writes out found->full = 0 without a lock. Imagine that we have one thread completing a transaction in which we finished deleting a block_group and are thus calling btrfs_clear_space_info_full() while simultaneously the data reclaim ticket infrastructure is running do_async_reclaim_data_space(): T1 T2 btrfs_commit_transaction btrfs_clear_space_info_full data_sinfo->full = 0 READ: full:0, chunk_alloc:0, flush:1 do_async_reclaim_data_space(data_sinfo) spin_lock(&space_info->lock); if(list_empty(tickets)) space_info->flush = 0; READ: full: 0, chunk_alloc:0, flush:1 MOD/WRITE: full: 0, chunk_alloc:0, flush:0 spin_unlock(&space_info->lock); return; MOD/WRITE: full:0, chunk_alloc:0, flush:1 and now data_sinfo->flush is 1 but the reclaim worker has exited. This breaks the invariant that flush is 0 iff there is no work queued or running. Once this invariant is violated, future allocations that go into __reserve_bytes() will add tickets to space_info->tickets but will see space_info->flush is set to 1 and not queue the work. After this, they will block forever on the resulting ticket, as it is now impossible to kick the worker again. I also confirmed by looking at the assembly of the affected kernel that it is doing RMW operations. For example, to set the flush (3rd) bit to 0, the assembly is: andb $0xfb,0x60(%rbx) and similarly for setting the full (1st) bit to 0: andb $0xfe,-0x20(%rax) So I think this is really a bug on practical systems. I have observed a number of systems in this exact state, but am currently unable to reproduce it. Rather than leaving this footgun lying around for the future, take advantage of the fact that there is room in the struct anyway, and that it is already quite large and simply change the three bitfield members to bools. This avoids writes to space_info->full having any effect on writes to space_info->flush, regardless of locking. Fixes: 957780eb2788 ("Btrfs: introduce ticketed enospc infrastructure") Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> [ The context change is due to the commit cc0517fe779f ("btrfs: tweak extent/chunk allocation for space_info sub-space") in v6.16 which is irrelevant to the logic of this patch. ] Signed-off-by: Rahul Sharma <black.hawk@163.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/block-group.c6
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/space-info.c22
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/space-info.h6
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/block-group.c b/fs/btrfs/block-group.c
index 2338d42b8f4e..880288d7358e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/block-group.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/block-group.c
@@ -3924,7 +3924,7 @@ int btrfs_chunk_alloc(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, u64 flags,
mutex_unlock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
} else {
/* Proceed with allocation */
- space_info->chunk_alloc = 1;
+ space_info->chunk_alloc = true;
wait_for_alloc = false;
spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
}
@@ -3973,7 +3973,7 @@ int btrfs_chunk_alloc(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, u64 flags,
spin_lock(&space_info->lock);
if (ret < 0) {
if (ret == -ENOSPC)
- space_info->full = 1;
+ space_info->full = true;
else
goto out;
} else {
@@ -3983,7 +3983,7 @@ int btrfs_chunk_alloc(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, u64 flags,
space_info->force_alloc = CHUNK_ALLOC_NO_FORCE;
out:
- space_info->chunk_alloc = 0;
+ space_info->chunk_alloc = false;
spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
mutex_unlock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
index 230e086ddee8..2f23bbcbd231 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ void btrfs_clear_space_info_full(struct btrfs_fs_info *info)
struct btrfs_space_info *found;
list_for_each_entry(found, head, list)
- found->full = 0;
+ found->full = false;
}
/*
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ void btrfs_add_bg_to_space_info(struct btrfs_fs_info *info,
found->bytes_readonly += block_group->bytes_super;
btrfs_space_info_update_bytes_zone_unusable(info, found, block_group->zone_unusable);
if (block_group->length > 0)
- found->full = 0;
+ found->full = false;
btrfs_try_granting_tickets(info, found);
spin_unlock(&found->lock);
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ static void btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space(struct work_struct *work)
spin_lock(&space_info->lock);
to_reclaim = btrfs_calc_reclaim_metadata_size(fs_info, space_info);
if (!to_reclaim) {
- space_info->flush = 0;
+ space_info->flush = false;
spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
return;
}
@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ static void btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space(struct work_struct *work)
flush_space(fs_info, space_info, to_reclaim, flush_state, false);
spin_lock(&space_info->lock);
if (list_empty(&space_info->tickets)) {
- space_info->flush = 0;
+ space_info->flush = false;
spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
return;
}
@@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ static void btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space(struct work_struct *work)
flush_state = FLUSH_DELAYED_ITEMS_NR;
commit_cycles--;
} else {
- space_info->flush = 0;
+ space_info->flush = false;
}
} else {
flush_state = FLUSH_DELAYED_ITEMS_NR;
@@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@ static void btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space(struct work_struct *work)
spin_lock(&space_info->lock);
if (list_empty(&space_info->tickets)) {
- space_info->flush = 0;
+ space_info->flush = false;
spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
return;
}
@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@ static void btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space(struct work_struct *work)
flush_space(fs_info, space_info, U64_MAX, ALLOC_CHUNK_FORCE, false);
spin_lock(&space_info->lock);
if (list_empty(&space_info->tickets)) {
- space_info->flush = 0;
+ space_info->flush = false;
spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
return;
}
@@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ static void btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space(struct work_struct *work)
data_flush_states[flush_state], false);
spin_lock(&space_info->lock);
if (list_empty(&space_info->tickets)) {
- space_info->flush = 0;
+ space_info->flush = false;
spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
return;
}
@@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ static void btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space(struct work_struct *work)
if (maybe_fail_all_tickets(fs_info, space_info))
flush_state = 0;
else
- space_info->flush = 0;
+ space_info->flush = false;
} else {
flush_state = 0;
}
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ static void btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space(struct work_struct *work)
aborted_fs:
maybe_fail_all_tickets(fs_info, space_info);
- space_info->flush = 0;
+ space_info->flush = false;
spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
}
@@ -1719,7 +1719,7 @@ static int __reserve_bytes(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
*/
maybe_clamp_preempt(fs_info, space_info);
- space_info->flush = 1;
+ space_info->flush = true;
trace_btrfs_trigger_flush(fs_info,
space_info->flags,
orig_bytes, flush,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/space-info.h b/fs/btrfs/space-info.h
index dc69138f3de1..7aebb6c4132c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/space-info.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/space-info.h
@@ -109,11 +109,11 @@ struct btrfs_space_info {
flushing. The value is >> clamp, so turns
out to be a 2^clamp divisor. */
- unsigned int full:1; /* indicates that we cannot allocate any more
+ bool full; /* indicates that we cannot allocate any more
chunks for this space */
- unsigned int chunk_alloc:1; /* set if we are allocating a chunk */
+ bool chunk_alloc; /* set if we are allocating a chunk */
- unsigned int flush:1; /* set if we are trying to make space */
+ bool flush; /* set if we are trying to make space */
unsigned int force_alloc; /* set if we need to force a chunk
alloc for this space */