3.16.54-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@xxxxxxx> commit 31ccb1f7ba3cfe29631587d451cf5bb8ab593550 upstream. There is a race condition between nilfs_dirty_inode() and nilfs_set_file_dirty(). When a file is opened, nilfs_dirty_inode() is called to update the access timestamp in the inode. It calls __nilfs_mark_inode_dirty() in a separate transaction. __nilfs_mark_inode_dirty() caches the ifile buffer_head in the i_bh field of the inode info structure and marks it as dirty. After some data was written to the file in another transaction, the function nilfs_set_file_dirty() is called, which adds the inode to the ns_dirty_files list. Then the segment construction calls nilfs_segctor_collect_dirty_files(), which goes through the ns_dirty_files list and checks the i_bh field. If there is a cached buffer_head in i_bh it is not marked as dirty again. Since nilfs_dirty_inode() and nilfs_set_file_dirty() use separate transactions, it is possible that a segment construction that writes out the ifile occurs in-between the two. If this happens the inode is not on the ns_dirty_files list, but its ifile block is still marked as dirty and written out. In the next segment construction, the data for the file is written out and nilfs_bmap_propagate() updates the b-tree. Eventually the bmap root is written into the i_bh block, which is not dirty, because it was written out in another segment construction. As a result the bmap update can be lost, which leads to file system corruption. Either the virtual block address points to an unallocated DAT block, or the DAT entry will be reused for something different. The error can remain undetected for a long time. A typical error message would be one of the "bad btree" errors or a warning that a DAT entry could not be found. This bug can be reproduced reliably by a simple benchmark that creates and overwrites millions of 4k files. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509367935-3086-2-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c +++ b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c @@ -1883,8 +1883,6 @@ static int nilfs_segctor_collect_dirty_f "failed to get inode block.\n"); return err; } - mark_buffer_dirty(ibh); - nilfs_mdt_mark_dirty(ifile); spin_lock(&nilfs->ns_inode_lock); if (likely(!ii->i_bh)) ii->i_bh = ibh; @@ -1893,6 +1891,10 @@ static int nilfs_segctor_collect_dirty_f goto retry; } + // Always redirty the buffer to avoid race condition + mark_buffer_dirty(ii->i_bh); + nilfs_mdt_mark_dirty(ifile); + clear_bit(NILFS_I_QUEUED, &ii->i_state); set_bit(NILFS_I_BUSY, &ii->i_state); list_move_tail(&ii->i_dirty, &sci->sc_dirty_files);