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Dave Chinner 774cc7c882 xfs: Don't allow logging of XFS_ISTALE inodes 
[ Upstream commit 96355d5a1f ]

In tracking down a problem in this patchset, I discovered we are
reclaiming dirty stale inodes. This wasn't discovered until inodes
were always attached to the cluster buffer and then the rcu callback
that freed inodes was assert failing because the inode still had an
active pointer to the cluster buffer after it had been reclaimed.

Debugging the issue indicated that this was a pre-existing issue
resulting from the way the inodes are handled in xfs_inactive_ifree.
When we free a cluster buffer from xfs_ifree_cluster, all the inodes
in cache are marked XFS_ISTALE. Those that are clean have nothing
else done to them and so eventually get cleaned up by background
reclaim. i.e. it is assumed we'll never dirty/relog an inode marked
XFS_ISTALE.

On journal commit dirty stale inodes as are handled by both
buffer and inode log items to run though xfs_istale_done() and
removed from the AIL (buffer log item commit) or the log item will
simply unpin it because the buffer log item will clean it. What happens
to any specific inode is entirely dependent on which log item wins
the commit race, but the result is the same - stale inodes are
clean, not attached to the cluster buffer, and not in the AIL. Hence
inode reclaim can just free these inodes without further care.

However, if the stale inode is relogged, it gets dirtied again and
relogged into the CIL. Most of the time this isn't an issue, because
relogging simply changes the inode's location in the current
checkpoint. Problems arise, however, when the CIL checkpoints
between two transactions in the xfs_inactive_ifree() deferops
processing. This results in the XFS_ISTALE inode being redirtied
and inserted into the CIL without any of the other stale cluster
buffer infrastructure being in place.

Hence on journal commit, it simply gets unpinned, so it remains
dirty in memory. Everything in inode writeback avoids XFS_ISTALE
inodes so it can't be written back, and it is not tracked in the AIL
so there's not even a trigger to attempt to clean the inode. Hence
the inode just sits dirty in memory until inode reclaim comes along,
sees that it is XFS_ISTALE, and goes to reclaim it. This reclaiming
of a dirty inode caused use after free, list corruptions and other
nasty issues later in this patchset.

Hence this patch addresses a violation of the "never log XFS_ISTALE
inodes" caused by the deferops processing rolling a transaction
and relogging a stale inode in xfs_inactive_free. It also adds a
bunch of asserts to catch this problem in debug kernels so that
we don't reintroduce this problem in future.

Reproducer for this issue was generic/558 on a v4 filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
 		2020-09-03 11:26:44 +02:00
Documentation kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVM 2020-08-26 10:40:47 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch powerpc/xive: Ignore kmemleak false positives 2020-09-03 11:26:42 +02:00
block iocost: Fix check condition of iocg abs_vdebt 2020-08-19 08:15:58 +02:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto crypto: algif_aead - fix uninitialized ctx->init 2020-08-21 13:05:38 +02:00
drivers scsi: lpfc: Fix shost refcount mismatch when deleting vport 2020-09-03 11:26:44 +02:00
fs xfs: Don't allow logging of XFS_ISTALE inodes 2020-09-03 11:26:44 +02:00
include iommu/vt-d: Enforce PASID devTLB field mask 2020-08-21 13:05:34 +02:00
init x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try 2020-05-20 08:20:34 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel blktrace: ensure our debugfs dir exists 2020-09-03 11:26:42 +02:00
lib test_kmod: avoid potential double free in trigger_config_run_type() 2020-08-21 13:05:37 +02:00
mm mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible 2020-08-26 10:41:07 +02:00
net net/sched: act_ct: Fix skb double-free in tcf_ct_handle_fragments() error flow 2020-09-03 11:26:40 +02:00
samples bpf: Fix fds_example SIGSEGV error 2020-08-19 08:16:03 +02:00
scripts kconfig: qconf: fix signal connection to invalid slots 2020-08-26 10:41:04 +02:00
security Smack: prevent underflow in smk_set_cipso() 2020-08-19 08:16:16 +02:00
sound ASoC: tegra: Fix reference count leaks. 2020-09-03 11:26:42 +02:00
tools tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c: cg_read_strcmp: fix null pointer dereference 2020-08-26 10:40:57 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Only reschedule if MMU_NOTIFIER_RANGE_BLOCKABLE is not set 2020-08-26 10:41:08 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes 2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM 2020-08-26 10:40:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.61 2020-08-26 10:41:08 +02:00
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.