This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
btrfs: fix race between block group removal and block group creation
to the 5.7-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:
btrfs-fix-race-between-block-group-removal-and-block.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 3194f2f33de99452efb73cca36445df4df751e09
Author: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jun 1 19:12:19 2020 +0100
btrfs: fix race between block group removal and block group creation
[ Upstream commit ffcb9d44572afbaf8fa6dbf5115bff6dab7b299e ]
There is a race between block group removal and block group creation
when the removal is completed by a task running fitrim or scrub. When
this happens we end up failing the block group creation with an error
-EEXIST since we attempt to insert a duplicate block group item key
in the extent tree. That results in a transaction abort.
The race happens like this:
1) Task A is doing a fitrim, and at btrfs_trim_block_group() it freezes
block group X with btrfs_freeze_block_group() (until very recently
that was named btrfs_get_block_group_trimming());
2) Task B starts removing block group X, either because it's now unused
or due to relocation for example. So at btrfs_remove_block_group(),
while holding the chunk mutex and the block group's lock, it sets
the 'removed' flag of the block group and it sets the local variable
'remove_em' to false, because the block group is currently frozen
(its 'frozen' counter is > 0, until very recently this counter was
named 'trimming');
3) Task B unlocks the block group and the chunk mutex;
4) Task A is done trimming the block group and unfreezes the block group
by calling btrfs_unfreeze_block_group() (until very recently this was
named btrfs_put_block_group_trimming()). In this function we lock the
block group and set the local variable 'cleanup' to true because we
were able to decrement the block group's 'frozen' counter down to 0 and
the flag 'removed' is set in the block group.
Since 'cleanup' is set to true, it locks the chunk mutex and removes
the extent mapping representing the block group from the mapping tree;
5) Task C allocates a new block group Y and it picks up the logical address
that block group X had as the logical address for Y, because X was the
block group with the highest logical address and now the second block
group with the highest logical address, the last in the fs mapping tree,
ends at an offset corresponding to block group X's logical address (this
logical address selection is done at volumes.c:find_next_chunk()).
At this point the new block group Y does not have yet its item added
to the extent tree (nor the corresponding device extent items and
chunk item in the device and chunk trees). The new group Y is added to
the list of pending block groups in the transaction handle;
6) Before task B proceeds to removing the block group item for block
group X from the extent tree, which has a key matching:
(X logical offset, BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_ITEM_KEY, length)
task C while ending its transaction handle calls
btrfs_create_pending_block_groups(), which finds block group Y and
tries to insert the block group item for Y into the exten tree, which
fails with -EEXIST since logical offset is the same that X had and
task B hasn't yet deleted the key from the extent tree.
This failure results in a transaction abort, producing a stack like
the following:
------------[ cut here ]------------
BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -17)
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 19736 at fs/btrfs/block-group.c:2074 btrfs_create_pending_block_groups+0x1eb/0x260 [btrfs]
Modules linked in: btrfs blake2b_generic xor raid6_pq (...)
CPU: 2 PID: 19736 Comm: fsstress Tainted: G W 5.6.0-rc7-btrfs-next-58 #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:btrfs_create_pending_block_groups+0x1eb/0x260 [btrfs]
Code: ff ff ff 48 8b 55 50 f0 48 (...)
RSP: 0018:ffffa4160a1c7d58 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff961581909d98 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffffb3d63990 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff9614f3356a58 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffff9615b65b0040 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff961581909c10
R13: ffff9615b0c32000 R14: ffff9614f3356ab0 R15: ffff9614be779000
FS: 00007f2ce2841e80(0000) GS:ffff9615bae00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555f18780000 CR3: 0000000131d34005 CR4: 00000000003606e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups+0x398/0x4e0 [btrfs]
btrfs_commit_transaction+0xd0/0xc50 [btrfs]
? btrfs_attach_transaction_barrier+0x1e/0x50 [btrfs]
? __ia32_sys_fdatasync+0x20/0x20
iterate_supers+0xdb/0x180
ksys_sync+0x60/0xb0
__ia32_sys_sync+0xa/0x10
do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x280
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x7f2ce1d4d5b7
Code: 83 c4 08 48 3d 01 (...)
RSP: 002b:00007ffd8b558c58 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a2
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000002c RCX: 00007f2ce1d4d5b7
RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: 00000000186ba07b RDI: 000000000000002c
RBP: 0000555f17b9e520 R08: 0000000000000012 R09: 000000000000ce00
R10: 0000000000000078 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000032
R13: 0000000051eb851f R14: 00007ffd8b558cd0 R15: 0000555f1798ec20
irq event stamp: 0
hardirqs last enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffffffffb2abdedf>] copy_process+0x74f/0x2020
softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffffb2abdedf>] copy_process+0x74f/0x2020
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
---[ end trace bd7c03622e0b0a9c ]---
Fix this simply by making btrfs_remove_block_group() remove the block
group's item from the extent tree before it flags the block group as
removed. Also make the free space deletion from the free space tree
before flagging the block group as removed, to avoid a similar race
with adding and removing free space entries for the free space tree.
Fixes: 04216820fe83d5 ("Btrfs: fix race between fs trimming and block group remove/allocation")
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.4+
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/block-group.c b/fs/btrfs/block-group.c
index d80857d00b0fb..1b1c869530088 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/block-group.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/block-group.c
@@ -1091,6 +1091,25 @@ int btrfs_remove_block_group(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
spin_unlock(&block_group->space_info->lock);
+ /*
+ * Remove the free space for the block group from the free space tree
+ * and the block group's item from the extent tree before marking the
+ * block group as removed. This is to prevent races with tasks that
+ * freeze and unfreeze a block group, this task and another task
+ * allocating a new block group - the unfreeze task ends up removing
+ * the block group's extent map before the task calling this function
+ * deletes the block group item from the extent tree, allowing for
+ * another task to attempt to create another block group with the same
+ * item key (and failing with -EEXIST and a transaction abort).
+ */
+ ret = remove_block_group_free_space(trans, block_group);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
+ ret = remove_block_group_item(trans, path, block_group);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto out;
+
mutex_lock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
spin_lock(&block_group->lock);
block_group->removed = 1;
@@ -1122,14 +1141,6 @@ int btrfs_remove_block_group(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
mutex_unlock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
- ret = remove_block_group_free_space(trans, block_group);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
-
- ret = remove_block_group_item(trans, path, block_group);
- if (ret < 0)
- goto out;
-
if (remove_em) {
struct extent_map_tree *em_tree;
