From: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>
commit f3e3d9cc35252a70a2fd698762c9687718268ec6 upstream.
[BUG]
There is a bug report about bad signal timing could lead to read-only
fs during balance:
BTRFS info (device xvdb): balance: start -d -m -s
BTRFS info (device xvdb): relocating block group 73001861120 flags metadata
BTRFS info (device xvdb): found 12236 extents, stage: move data extents
BTRFS info (device xvdb): relocating block group 71928119296 flags data
BTRFS info (device xvdb): found 3 extents, stage: move data extents
BTRFS info (device xvdb): found 3 extents, stage: update data pointers
BTRFS info (device xvdb): relocating block group 60922265600 flags metadata
BTRFS: error (device xvdb) in btrfs_drop_snapshot:5505: errno=-4 unknown
BTRFS info (device xvdb): forced readonly
BTRFS info (device xvdb): balance: ended with status: -4
[CAUSE]
The direct cause is the -EINTR from the following call chain when a
fatal signal is pending:
relocate_block_group()
|- clean_dirty_subvols()
|- btrfs_drop_snapshot()
|- btrfs_start_transaction()
|- btrfs_delayed_refs_rsv_refill()
|- btrfs_reserve_metadata_bytes()
|- __reserve_metadata_bytes()
|- wait_reserve_ticket()
|- prepare_to_wait_event();
|- ticket->error = -EINTR;
Normally this behavior is fine for most btrfs_start_transaction()
callers, as they need to catch any other error, same for the signal, and
exit ASAP.
However for balance, especially for the clean_dirty_subvols() case, we're
already doing cleanup works, getting -EINTR from btrfs_drop_snapshot()
could cause a lot of unexpected problems.
>From the mentioned forced read-only report, to later balance error due
to half dropped reloc trees.
[FIX]
Fix this problem by using btrfs_join_transaction() if
btrfs_drop_snapshot() is called from relocation context.
Since btrfs_join_transaction() won't get interrupted by signal, we can
continue the cleanup.
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.4+
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>3
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -5298,7 +5298,14 @@ int btrfs_drop_snapshot(struct btrfs_roo
goto out;
}
- trans = btrfs_start_transaction(tree_root, 0);
+ /*
+ * Use join to avoid potential EINTR from transaction start. See
+ * wait_reserve_ticket and the whole reservation callchain.
+ */
+ if (for_reloc)
+ trans = btrfs_join_transaction(tree_root);
+ else
+ trans = btrfs_start_transaction(tree_root, 0);
if (IS_ERR(trans)) {
err = PTR_ERR(trans);
goto out_free;
