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[BUG]
When running generic/418 with a btrfs whose block size < page size
(subpage cases), it always fails.
And the following minimal reproducer is more than enough to trigger it
reliably:
workload()
{
mkfs.btrfs -s 4k -f $dev > /dev/null
dmesg -C
mount $dev $mnt
$fsstree_dir/src/dio-invalidate-cache -r -b 4096 -n 3 -i 1 -f $mnt/diotest
ret=$?
umount $mnt
stop_trace
if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then
fail
fi
}
for (( i = 0; i < 1024; i++)); do
echo "=== $i/$runtime ==="
workload
done
[CAUSE]
With extra trace printk added to the following functions:
- btrfs_buffered_write()
* Which folio is touched
* The file offset (start) where the buffered write is at
* How many bytes are copied
* The content of the write (the first 2 bytes)
- submit_one_sector()
* Which folio is touched
* The position inside the folio
* The content of the page cache (the first 2 bytes)
- pagecache_isize_extended()
* The parameters of the function itself
* The parameters of the folio_zero_range()
Which are enough to show the problem:
22.158114: btrfs_buffered_write: folio pos=0 start=0 copied=4096 content=0x0101
22.158161: submit_one_sector: r/i=5/257 folio=0 pos=0 content=0x0101
22.158609: btrfs_buffered_write: folio pos=0 start=4096 copied=4096 content=0x0101
22.158634: btrfs_buffered_write: folio pos=0 start=8192 copied=4096 content=0x0101
22.158650: pagecache_isize_extended: folio=0 from=4096 to=8192 bsize=4096 zero off=4096 len=8192
22.158682: submit_one_sector: r/i=5/257 folio=0 pos=4096 content=0x0000
22.158686: submit_one_sector: r/i=5/257 folio=0 pos=8192 content=0x0101
The tool dio-invalidate-cache will start 3 threads, each doing a buffered
write with 0x01 at offset 0, 4096 and 8192, do a fsync, then do a direct read,
and compare the read buffer with the write buffer.
Note that all 3 btrfs_buffered_write() are writing the correct 0x01 into
the page cache.
But at submit_one_sector(), at file offset 4096, the content is zeroed
out, by pagecache_isize_extended().
The race happens like this:
Thread A is writing into range [4K, 8K).
Thread B is writing into range [8K, 12k).
Thread A | Thread B
-------------------------------------+------------------------------------
btrfs_buffered_write() | btrfs_buffered_write()
|- old_isize = 4K; | |- old_isize = 4096;
|- btrfs_inode_lock() | |
|- write into folio range [4K, 8K) | |
|- pagecache_isize_extended() | |
| extend isize from 4096 to 8192 | |
| no folio_zero_range() called | |
|- btrfs_inode_lock() | |
| |- btrfs_inode_lock()
| |- write into folio range [8K, 12K)
| |- pagecache_isize_extended()
| | calling folio_zero_range(4K, 8K)
| | This is caused by the old_isize is
| | grabbed too early, without any
| | inode lock.
| |- btrfs_inode_unlock()
The @old_isize is grabbed without inode lock, causing race between two
buffered write threads and making pagecache_isize_extended() to zero
range which is still containing cached data.
And this is only affecting subpage btrfs, because for regular blocksize
== page size case, the function pagecache_isize_extended() will do
nothing if the block size >= page size.
[FIX]
Grab the old i_size while holding the inode lock.
This means each buffered write thread will have a stable view of the
old inode size, thus avoid the above race.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15+
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