From: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx> I tripped over an integer overflow when using a big journal size. Essentially I can reliably reproduce it using: mkfs.xfs -f -lsize=393216b -f -b size=4096 -m crc=1,reflink=1,rmapbt=1, \ -i sparse=1 /dev/vdb2 > /dev/null mount -o usrquota,grpquota,prjquota /dev/vdb2 /mnt xfs_io -x -c 'shutdown -f' /mnt umount /mnt mount -o usrquota,grpquota,prjquota /dev/vdb2 /mnt The last mount command get stuck on the following path: [<0>] xlog_grant_head_wait+0x5d/0x2a0 [xfs] [<0>] xlog_grant_head_check+0x112/0x180 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_log_reserve+0xe3/0x260 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_trans_reserve+0x179/0x250 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_trans_alloc+0x101/0x260 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_sync_sb+0x3f/0x80 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_qm_mount_quotas+0xe3/0x2f0 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_mountfs+0x7ad/0xc20 [xfs] [<0>] xfs_fs_fill_super+0x762/0xa50 [xfs] [<0>] get_tree_bdev_flags+0x131/0x1d0 [<0>] vfs_get_tree+0x26/0xd0 [<0>] vfs_cmd_create+0x59/0xe0 [<0>] __do_sys_fsconfig+0x4e3/0x6b0 [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x82/0x160 [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e By investigating it a bit, I noticed that xlog_grant_head_check (called from xfs_log_reserve), defines free_bytes as an integer, which in turn is used to store the value from xlog_grant_space_left(). xlog_grant_space_left() however, does return a uint64_t, and, giving a big enough journal size, it can overflow the free_bytes in xlog_grant_head_check(), resulting int the conditional: else if (free_bytes < *need_bytes) { in xlog_grant_head_check() to evaluate to true and cause xfsaild to try to flush the log indefinitely, which seems to be causing xfs to get stuck in xlog_grant_head_wait() indefinitely. I'm adding a fixes tag as a suggestion from hch, giving that after the aforementioned patch, all xlog_grant_space_left() callers should store the return value on a 64bit type. Fixes: c1220522ef40 ("xfs: grant heads track byte counts, not LSNs") Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx> --- I'd like to add a caveat here, because I don't properly understand the journal code/mechanism yet. It does seem to me that it is feasible to have the reserve grant head to go to a big number and indeed cause the overflow, but I'm not completely sure that what I'm fixing is a real bug or if just the symptom of something else (or maybe a bug that triggeded another overflow bug :) fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c index 05daad8a8d34..a799821393b5 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ STATIC bool xlog_grant_head_wake( struct xlog *log, struct xlog_grant_head *head, - int *free_bytes) + uint64_t *free_bytes) { struct xlog_ticket *tic; int need_bytes; @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ xlog_grant_head_check( struct xlog_ticket *tic, int *need_bytes) { - int free_bytes; + uint64_t free_bytes; int error = 0; ASSERT(!xlog_in_recovery(log)); @@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ xfs_log_space_wake( struct xfs_mount *mp) { struct xlog *log = mp->m_log; - int free_bytes; + uint64_t free_bytes; if (xlog_is_shutdown(log)) return; -- 2.47.1