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btrfs: fix memory ordering between normal and ordered work functions 

commit 45da9c1767 upstream.

Ordered work functions aren't guaranteed to be handled by the same thread
which executed the normal work functions. The only way execution between
normal/ordered functions is synchronized is via the WORK_DONE_BIT,
unfortunately the used bitops don't guarantee any ordering whatsoever.

This manifested as seemingly inexplicable crashes on ARM64, where
async_chunk::inode is seen as non-null in async_cow_submit which causes
submit_compressed_extents to be called and crash occurs because
async_chunk::inode suddenly became NULL. The call trace was similar to:

    pc : submit_compressed_extents+0x38/0x3d0
    lr : async_cow_submit+0x50/0xd0
    sp : ffff800015d4bc20

    <registers omitted for brevity>

    Call trace:
     submit_compressed_extents+0x38/0x3d0
     async_cow_submit+0x50/0xd0
     run_ordered_work+0xc8/0x280
     btrfs_work_helper+0x98/0x250
     process_one_work+0x1f0/0x4ac
     worker_thread+0x188/0x504
     kthread+0x110/0x114
     ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

Fix this by adding respective barrier calls which ensure that all
accesses preceding setting of WORK_DONE_BIT are strictly ordered before
setting the flag. At the same time add a read barrier after reading of
WORK_DONE_BIT in run_ordered_work which ensures all subsequent loads
would be strictly ordered after reading the bit. This in turn ensures
are all accesses before WORK_DONE_BIT are going to be strictly ordered
before any access that can occur in ordered_func.

Reported-by: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Fixes: 08a9ff3264 ("btrfs: Added btrfs_workqueue_struct implemented ordered execution based on kernel workqueue")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011928
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Tested-by: Chris Murphy <chris@colorremedies.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Nikolay Borisov 2021-11-02 14:49:16 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent cd198aea9e
commit 47e6f9f691
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@ -234,6 +234,13 @@ static void run_ordered_work(struct __btrfs_workqueue *wq,
ordered_list);
if (!test_bit(WORK_DONE_BIT, &work->flags))
break;
/*
* Orders all subsequent loads after reading WORK_DONE_BIT,
* paired with the smp_mb__before_atomic in btrfs_work_helper
* this guarantees that the ordered function will see all
* updates from ordinary work function.
*/
smp_rmb();
/*
* we are going to call the ordered done function, but
@ -317,6 +324,13 @@ static void btrfs_work_helper(struct work_struct *normal_work)
thresh_exec_hook(wq);
work->func(work);
if (need_order) {
/*
* Ensures all memory accesses done in the work function are
* ordered before setting the WORK_DONE_BIT. Ensuring the thread
* which is going to executed the ordered work sees them.
* Pairs with the smp_rmb in run_ordered_work.
*/
smp_mb__before_atomic();
set_bit(WORK_DONE_BIT, &work->flags);
run_ordered_work(wq, work);
} else {