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Josef Bacik 651740a502 btrfs: check WRITE_ERR when trying to read an extent buffer 
Filipe reported a hang when we have errors on btrfs.  This turned out to
be a side-effect of my fix c2e3930529 ("btrfs: clear extent buffer
uptodate when we fail to write it") which made it so we clear
EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE on an eb when we fail to write it out.

Below is a paste of Filipe's analysis he got from using drgn to debug
the hang

"""
btree readahead code calls read_extent_buffer_pages(), sets ->io_pages to
a value while writeback of all pages has not yet completed:
   --> writeback for the first 3 pages finishes, we clear
       EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE from eb on the first page when we get an
       error.
   --> at this point eb->io_pages is 1 and we cleared Uptodate bit from the
       first 3 pages
   --> read_extent_buffer_pages() does not see EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE() so
       it continues, it's able to lock the pages since we obviously don't
       hold the pages locked during writeback
   --> read_extent_buffer_pages() then computes 'num_reads' as 3, and sets
       eb->io_pages to 3, since only the first page does not have Uptodate
       bit set at this point
   --> writeback for the remaining page completes, we ended decrementing
       eb->io_pages by 1, resulting in eb->io_pages == 2, and therefore
       never calling end_extent_buffer_writeback(), so
       EXTENT_BUFFER_WRITEBACK remains in the eb's flags
   --> of course, when the read bio completes, it doesn't and shouldn't
       call end_extent_buffer_writeback()
   --> we should clear EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE only after all pages of
       the eb finished writeback?  or maybe make the read pages code
       wait for writeback of all pages of the eb to complete before
       checking which pages need to be read, touch ->io_pages, submit
       read bio, etc

writeback bit never cleared means we can hang when aborting a
transaction, at:

    btrfs_cleanup_one_transaction()
       btrfs_destroy_marked_extents()
         wait_on_extent_buffer_writeback()
"""

This is a problem because our writes are not synchronized with reads in
any way.  We clear the UPTODATE flag and then we can easily come in and
try to read the EB while we're still waiting on other bio's to
complete.

We have two options here, we could lock all the pages, and then check to
see if eb->io_pages != 0 to know if we've already got an outstanding
write on the eb.

Or we can simply check to see if we have WRITE_ERR set on this extent
buffer.  We set this bit _before_ we clear UPTODATE, so if the read gets
triggered because we aren't UPTODATE because of a write error we're
guaranteed to have WRITE_ERR set, and in this case we can simply return
-EIO.  This will fix the reported hang.

Reported-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Fixes: c2e3930529 ("btrfs: clear extent buffer uptodate when we fail to write it")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2021-12-15 17:07:31 +01:00
arch ARM updates for 5.15: 2021-10-25 10:28:52 -07:00
block block-5.15-2021-10-22 2021-10-22 17:42:13 -10:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
Documentation Pin control fixes for the v5.15 series: 2021-10-25 09:47:18 -07:00
drivers spi: Fix tegra20 build with CONFIG_PM=n once again 2021-10-25 10:46:41 -07:00
fs btrfs: check WRITE_ERR when trying to read an extent buffer 2021-12-15 17:07:31 +01:00
include btrfs: send: prepare for v2 protocol 2021-10-29 12:38:43 +02:00
init bootconfig: init: Fix memblock leak in xbc_make_cmdline() 2021-10-10 22:27:40 -04:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel - Reset clang's Shadow Call Stack on hotplug to prevent it from overflowing 2021-10-24 07:04:21 -10:00
lib linux-kselftest-kunit-fixes-5.15-rc6 2021-10-11 17:25:08 -07:00
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samples samples/bpf: Relicense bpf_insn.h as GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause 2021-09-29 16:03:55 +02:00
scripts Tracing fixes for 5.15: 2021-10-16 10:51:41 -07:00
security Merge branch 'ucount-fixes-for-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2021-10-21 17:27:17 -10:00
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tools Networking fixes for 5.15-rc7, including fixes from netfilter, and can. 2021-10-21 15:36:50 -10:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add Dave Hansen to the x86 maintainer team 2021-10-21 13:55:42 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.15-rc7 2021-10-25 11:30:31 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.