3.16.57-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 1a932ef4e47984dee227834667b5ff5a334e4805 upstream. I got these from running generic/475, WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 26384 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:3326 btrfs_orphan_commit_root+0x1ac/0x2b0 [btrfs] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010 IP: btrfs_block_rsv_release+0x1c/0x70 [btrfs] Call Trace: btrfs_orphan_release_metadata+0x9f/0x200 [btrfs] btrfs_orphan_del+0x10d/0x170 [btrfs] btrfs_setattr+0x500/0x640 [btrfs] notify_change+0x7ae/0x870 do_truncate+0xca/0x130 vfs_truncate+0x2ee/0x3d0 do_sys_truncate+0xaf/0xf0 SyS_truncate+0xe/0x10 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96 The race is between btrfs_orphan_commit_root and btrfs_orphan_del, t1 t2 btrfs_orphan_commit_root btrfs_orphan_del spin_lock check (&root->orphan_inodes) root->orphan_block_rsv = NULL; spin_unlock atomic_dec(&root->orphan_inodes); access root->orphan_block_rsv Accessing root->orphan_block_rsv must be done before decreasing root->orphan_inodes. Fixes: 703c88e03524 ("Btrfs: fix tracking of orphan inode count") Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: Drop the added comment in a path that's unreachable here] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -3082,12 +3082,17 @@ int btrfs_orphan_add(struct btrfs_trans_ if (insert >= 1) { ret = btrfs_insert_orphan_item(trans, root, btrfs_ino(inode)); if (ret) { - atomic_dec(&root->orphan_inodes); if (reserve) { clear_bit(BTRFS_INODE_ORPHAN_META_RESERVED, &BTRFS_I(inode)->runtime_flags); btrfs_orphan_release_metadata(inode); } + /* + * btrfs_orphan_commit_root may race with us and set + * ->orphan_block_rsv to zero, in order to avoid that, + * decrease ->orphan_inodes after everything is done. + */ + atomic_dec(&root->orphan_inodes); if (ret != -EEXIST) { clear_bit(BTRFS_INODE_HAS_ORPHAN_ITEM, &BTRFS_I(inode)->runtime_flags); @@ -3119,28 +3124,26 @@ static int btrfs_orphan_del(struct btrfs { struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(inode)->root; int delete_item = 0; - int release_rsv = 0; int ret = 0; - spin_lock(&root->orphan_lock); if (test_and_clear_bit(BTRFS_INODE_HAS_ORPHAN_ITEM, &BTRFS_I(inode)->runtime_flags)) delete_item = 1; + if (delete_item && trans) + ret = btrfs_del_orphan_item(trans, root, btrfs_ino(inode)); + if (test_and_clear_bit(BTRFS_INODE_ORPHAN_META_RESERVED, &BTRFS_I(inode)->runtime_flags)) - release_rsv = 1; - spin_unlock(&root->orphan_lock); + btrfs_orphan_release_metadata(inode); - if (delete_item) { + /* + * btrfs_orphan_commit_root may race with us and set ->orphan_block_rsv + * to zero, in order to avoid that, decrease ->orphan_inodes after + * everything is done. + */ + if (delete_item) atomic_dec(&root->orphan_inodes); - if (trans) - ret = btrfs_del_orphan_item(trans, root, - btrfs_ino(inode)); - } - - if (release_rsv) - btrfs_orphan_release_metadata(inode); return ret; }