We can have two concurrent fsync operations against the same file, in which case both fsyncs can collect and process the same ordered This allows for a time window where a race can lead to those ordered extents never getting their reference count decremented to 0, leading to memory leaks, getting referenced by multiple lists and resulting in inode leaks too (an iput for the ordered extent's inode is scheduled only when the ordered extent's refcount drops to 0). The following sequence diagram explains this race: CPU 1 CPU 2 btrfs_sync_file() btrfs_sync_file() mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex) btrfs_log_inode() btrfs_get_logged_extents() --> collected ordered extent X --> incremented ordered extent X's refcount btrfs_submit_logged_extents() mutex_unlock(inode->i_mutex) btrfs_sync_log() --> blocks on mutex_lock(root->log_mutex) mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex) btrfs_log_inode() btrfs_get_logged_extents() --> collected ordered extent X as well --> incremented ordered extent X's refcount --> ordered extent X is now referenced by 2 different lists, due to use of list_add() and not list_move() btrfs_submit_logged_extents() mutex_unlock(inode->i_mutex) --> mutex root->log_mutex became free and task unblocked btrfs_wait_logged_extents() --> set flag BTRFS_ORDERED_LOGGED on ordered extent X and adds it to trans->ordered btrfs_sync_log() finishes btrfs_sync_log() btrfs_wait_logged_extents() --> Sees flag BTRFS_ORDERED_LOGGED set in ordered extent and therefore won't do anything with it --> The increment on ordered extent X's refcount done before by the task at CPU 2 will never have a matching decrement Fix this by using the flag BTRFS_ORDERED_LOGGED differently. Use it to mean that an ordered extent is already being processed by an fsync call, which prevents it from ever being collected by multiple concurrent fsync operations against the same inode. This race was introduced with the following change (added in 3.19 and backported to stable 3.18 and 3.17): Btrfs: make sure logged extents complete in the current transaction V3 commit 50d9aa99bd35c77200e0e3dd7a72274f8304701f CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.19, 3.18 and 3.17 Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> --- V2: No code changes, re-worded commit message and diagram. CC'ed stable too. fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c b/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c index 534544e..87c8976 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c @@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ void btrfs_get_logged_extents(struct inode *inode, break; if (!list_empty(&ordered->log_list)) continue; - if (test_bit(BTRFS_ORDERED_LOGGED, &ordered->flags)) + if (test_and_set_bit(BTRFS_ORDERED_LOGGED, &ordered->flags)) continue; list_add(&ordered->log_list, logged_list); atomic_inc(&ordered->refs); @@ -470,6 +470,7 @@ void btrfs_put_logged_extents(struct list_head *logged_list) ordered = list_first_entry(logged_list, struct btrfs_ordered_extent, log_list); + clear_bit(BTRFS_ORDERED_LOGGED, &ordered->flags); list_del_init(&ordered->log_list); btrfs_put_ordered_extent(ordered); } @@ -511,8 +512,7 @@ void btrfs_wait_logged_extents(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, wait_event(ordered->wait, test_bit(BTRFS_ORDERED_IO_DONE, &ordered->flags)); - if (!test_and_set_bit(BTRFS_ORDERED_LOGGED, &ordered->flags)) - list_add_tail(&ordered->trans_list, &trans->ordered); + list_add_tail(&ordered->trans_list, &trans->ordered); spin_lock_irq(&log->log_extents_lock[index]); } spin_unlock_irq(&log->log_extents_lock[index]); -- 2.1.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html