From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
ext4_writepages() on an encrypted file has to encrypt the data, but it
can't modify the pagecache pages in-place, so it encrypts the data into
bounce pages and writes those instead. All bounce pages are allocated
from a mempool using GFP_NOFS.
This is not correct use of a mempool, and it can deadlock. This is
because GFP_NOFS includes __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, which enables the "never
fail" mode for mempool_alloc() where a failed allocation will fall back
to waiting for one of the preallocated elements in the pool.
But since this mode is used for all a bio's pages and not just the
first, it can deadlock waiting for pages already in the bio to be freed.
This deadlock can be reproduced by patching mempool_alloc() to pretend
that pool->alloc() always fails (so that it always falls back to the
preallocations), and then creating an encrypted file of size > 128 KiB.
Fix it by only using GFP_NOFS for the first page in the bio. For
subsequent pages just use GFP_NOWAIT, and if any of those fail, just
submit the bio and start a new one.
This will need to be fixed in f2fs too, but that's less straightforward.
Fixes: c9af28fdd449 ("ext4 crypto: don't let data integrity writebacks fail with ENOMEM")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/page-io.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 24aeedb8fc75..68b39e75446a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -512,17 +512,26 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_NOFS;
unsigned int enc_bytes = round_up(len, i_blocksize(inode));
+ /*
+ * Since bounce page allocation uses a mempool, we can only use
+ * a waiting mask (i.e. request guaranteed allocation) on the
+ * first page of the bio. Otherwise it can deadlock.
+ */
+ if (io->io_bio)
+ gfp_flags = GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
retry_encrypt:
bounce_page = fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks(page, enc_bytes,
0, gfp_flags);
if (IS_ERR(bounce_page)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(bounce_page);
- if (ret == -ENOMEM && wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) {
- if (io->io_bio) {
+ if (ret == -ENOMEM &&
+ (io->io_bio || wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)) {
+ gfp_flags = GFP_NOFS;
+ if (io->io_bio)
ext4_io_submit(io);
- congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
- }
- gfp_flags |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
+ else
+ gfp_flags |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
+ congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
goto retry_encrypt;
}
--
2.24.1
