This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm writecache: fix incorrect flush sequence when doing SSD mode commit to the 5.5-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: dm-writecache-fix-incorrect-flush-sequence-when-doing-ssd-mode-commit.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From aa9509209c5ac2f0b35d01a922bf9ae072d0c2fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:46:05 -0500 Subject: dm writecache: fix incorrect flush sequence when doing SSD mode commit From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> commit aa9509209c5ac2f0b35d01a922bf9ae072d0c2fc upstream. When committing state, the function writecache_flush does the following: 1. write metadata (writecache_commit_flushed) 2. flush disk cache (writecache_commit_flushed) 3. wait for data writes to complete (writecache_wait_for_ios) 4. increase superblock seq_count 5. write the superblock 6. flush disk cache It may happen that at step 3, when we wait for some write to finish, the disk may report the write as finished, but the write only hit the disk cache and it is not yet stored in persistent storage. At step 5 we write the superblock - it may happen that the superblock is written before the write that we waited for in step 3. If the machine crashes, it may result in incorrect data being returned after reboot. In order to fix the bug, we must swap steps 2 and 3 in the above sequence, so that we first wait for writes to complete and then flush the disk cache. Fixes: 48debafe4f2f ("dm: add writecache target") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.18+ Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-writecache.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c @@ -442,7 +442,13 @@ static void writecache_notify_io(unsigne complete(&endio->c); } -static void ssd_commit_flushed(struct dm_writecache *wc) +static void writecache_wait_for_ios(struct dm_writecache *wc, int direction) +{ + wait_event(wc->bio_in_progress_wait[direction], + !atomic_read(&wc->bio_in_progress[direction])); +} + +static void ssd_commit_flushed(struct dm_writecache *wc, bool wait_for_ios) { struct dm_io_region region; struct dm_io_request req; @@ -488,17 +494,20 @@ static void ssd_commit_flushed(struct dm writecache_notify_io(0, &endio); wait_for_completion_io(&endio.c); + if (wait_for_ios) + writecache_wait_for_ios(wc, WRITE); + writecache_disk_flush(wc, wc->ssd_dev); memset(wc->dirty_bitmap, 0, wc->dirty_bitmap_size); } -static void writecache_commit_flushed(struct dm_writecache *wc) +static void writecache_commit_flushed(struct dm_writecache *wc, bool wait_for_ios) { if (WC_MODE_PMEM(wc)) wmb(); else - ssd_commit_flushed(wc); + ssd_commit_flushed(wc, wait_for_ios); } static void writecache_disk_flush(struct dm_writecache *wc, struct dm_dev *dev) @@ -522,12 +531,6 @@ static void writecache_disk_flush(struct writecache_error(wc, r, "error flushing metadata: %d", r); } -static void writecache_wait_for_ios(struct dm_writecache *wc, int direction) -{ - wait_event(wc->bio_in_progress_wait[direction], - !atomic_read(&wc->bio_in_progress[direction])); -} - #define WFE_RETURN_FOLLOWING 1 #define WFE_LOWEST_SEQ 2 @@ -724,15 +727,12 @@ static void writecache_flush(struct dm_w e = e2; cond_resched(); } - writecache_commit_flushed(wc); - - if (!WC_MODE_PMEM(wc)) - writecache_wait_for_ios(wc, WRITE); + writecache_commit_flushed(wc, true); wc->seq_count++; pmem_assign(sb(wc)->seq_count, cpu_to_le64(wc->seq_count)); writecache_flush_region(wc, &sb(wc)->seq_count, sizeof sb(wc)->seq_count); - writecache_commit_flushed(wc); + writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false); wc->overwrote_committed = false; @@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ static void writecache_flush(struct dm_w } if (need_flush_after_free) - writecache_commit_flushed(wc); + writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false); } static void writecache_flush_work(struct work_struct *work) @@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ static void writecache_discard(struct dm } if (discarded_something) - writecache_commit_flushed(wc); + writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false); } static bool writecache_wait_for_writeback(struct dm_writecache *wc) @@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ erase_this: if (need_flush) { writecache_flush_all_metadata(wc); - writecache_commit_flushed(wc); + writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false); } wc_unlock(wc); @@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ static void __writecache_endio_pmem(stru wc->writeback_size--; n_walked++; if (unlikely(n_walked >= ENDIO_LATENCY)) { - writecache_commit_flushed(wc); + writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false); wc_unlock(wc); wc_lock(wc); n_walked = 0; @@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ pop_from_list: writecache_wait_for_ios(wc, READ); } - writecache_commit_flushed(wc); + writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false); wc_unlock(wc); } @@ -1766,10 +1766,10 @@ static int init_memory(struct dm_writeca write_original_sector_seq_count(wc, &wc->entries[b], -1, -1); writecache_flush_all_metadata(wc); - writecache_commit_flushed(wc); + writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false); pmem_assign(sb(wc)->magic, cpu_to_le32(MEMORY_SUPERBLOCK_MAGIC)); writecache_flush_region(wc, &sb(wc)->magic, sizeof sb(wc)->magic); - writecache_commit_flushed(wc); + writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.5/dm-crypt-fix-gfp-flags-passed-to-skcipher_request_alloc.patch queue-5.5/dm-writecache-fix-incorrect-flush-sequence-when-doing-ssd-mode-commit.patch queue-5.5/dm-thin-fix-use-after-free-in-metadata_pre_commit_callback.patch