Re: [PATCH] btrfs: fix a race in encoded read

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:02 AM Johannes Thumshirn
<Johannes.Thumshirn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 12.12.24 09:53, Daniel Vacek wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 9:35 AM Johannes Thumshirn
> > <Johannes.Thumshirn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12.12.24 09:09, Daniel Vacek wrote:
> >>> Hi Johannes,
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 9:00 AM Johannes Thumshirn
> >>> <Johannes.Thumshirn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 12.12.24 08:54, Daniel Vacek wrote:
> >>>>> While testing the encoded read feature the following crash was observed
> >>>>> and it can be reliably reproduced:
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Daniel,
> >>>>
> >>>> This suspiciously looks like '05b36b04d74a ("btrfs: fix use-after-free
> >>>> in btrfs_encoded_read_endio()")'. Do you have this patch applied to your
> >>>> kernel? IIRC it went upstream with 6.13-rc2.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, I do. This one is on top of it. The crash happens with
> >>> `05b36b04d74a` applied. All the crashes were reproduced with
> >>> `feffde684ac2`.
> >>>
> >>> Honestly, `05b36b04d74a` looks a bit suspicious to me as it really
> >>> does not look to deal correctly with the issue to me. I was a bit
> >>> surprised/puzzled.
> >>
> >> Can you elaborate why?
> >
> > As it only touches one of those four atomic_dec_... lines. In theory
> > the issue can happen also on the two async places, IIUC. It's only a
> > matter of race probability.
> >
> >>> Anyways, I could reproduce the crash in a matter of half an hour. With
> >>> this fix the torture is surviving for 22 hours atm.
> >>
> >> Do you also have '3ff867828e93 ("btrfs: simplify waiting for encoded
> >> read endios")'? Looking at the diff it doesn't seems so.
> >
> > I cannot find that one. Am I missing something? Which repo are you using?
>
> The for-next branch for btrfs [1], which is what ppl developing against
> btrfs should use. Can you please re-test with it and if needed re-base
> your patch on top of it?
>
> [1] https://github.com/btrfs/linux for-next

I did check here and I don't really see the commit.

$ git remote -v
origin    https://github.com/btrfs/linux.git (fetch)
origin    https://github.com/btrfs/linux.git (push)
$ git fetch
$ git show 3ff867828e93 --
fatal: bad revision '3ff867828e93'

Note, I was testing v6.13-rc1. This is a fix not a feature development.

--nX

> Thanks,
>         Johannes





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