tree 14da3e7dc6e4ccdb1868ddf966cfa8afdbf57fe4
parent 854665693e6770c0730c1354871f08d01be6a333
author Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> 1753510850 -0700
committer Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> 1753819944 -0700

xfs: catch stale AGF/AGF metadata

Source kernel commit: db6a2274162de615ff74b927d38942fe3134d298

There is a race condition that can trigger in dmflakey fstests that
can result in asserts in xfs_ialloc_read_agi() and
xfs_alloc_read_agf() firing. The asserts look like this:

XFS: Assertion failed: pag->pagf_freeblks == be32_to_cpu(agf->agf_freeblks), file: fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c, line: 3440
.....
Call Trace:
<TASK>
xfs_alloc_read_agf+0x2ad/0x3a0
xfs_alloc_fix_freelist+0x280/0x720
xfs_alloc_vextent_prepare_ag+0x42/0x120
xfs_alloc_vextent_iterate_ags+0x67/0x260
xfs_alloc_vextent_start_ag+0xe4/0x1c0
xfs_bmapi_allocate+0x6fe/0xc90
xfs_bmapi_convert_delalloc+0x338/0x560
xfs_map_blocks+0x354/0x580
iomap_writepages+0x52b/0xa70
xfs_vm_writepages+0xd7/0x100
do_writepages+0xe1/0x2c0
__writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x340
writeback_sb_inodes+0x2d0/0x570
__writeback_inodes_wb+0x9c/0xf0
wb_writeback+0x139/0x2d0
wb_workfn+0x23e/0x4c0
process_scheduled_works+0x1d4/0x400
worker_thread+0x234/0x2e0
kthread+0x147/0x170
ret_from_fork+0x3e/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

I've seen the AGI variant from scrub running on the filesysetm
after unmount failed due to systemd interference:

XFS: Assertion failed: pag->pagi_freecount == be32_to_cpu(agi->agi_freecount) || xfs_is_shutdown(pag->pag_mount), file: fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_ialloc.c, line: 2804
.....
Call Trace:
<TASK>
xfs_ialloc_read_agi+0xee/0x150
xchk_perag_drain_and_lock+0x7d/0x240
xchk_ag_init+0x34/0x90
xchk_inode_xref+0x7b/0x220
xchk_inode+0x14d/0x180
xfs_scrub_metadata+0x2e2/0x510
xfs_ioc_scrub_metadata+0x62/0xb0
xfs_file_ioctl+0x446/0xbf0
__se_sys_ioctl+0x6f/0xc0
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x1d/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x1879/0x2ee0
do_syscall_64+0x68/0x130
? exc_page_fault+0x62/0xc0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Essentially, it is the same problem. When _flakey_drop_and_remount()
loads the drop-writes table, it makes all writes silently fail. Writes
are reported to the fs as completed successfully, but they are not
issued to the backing store. The filesystem sees the successful
write completion and marks the metadata buffer clean and removes it
from the AIL.

If this happens at the same time as memory pressure is occuring,
the now-clean AGF and/or AGI buffers can be reclaimed from memory.

Shortly afterwards, but before _flakey_drop_and_remount() runs
unmount, background writeback is kicked and it tries to allocate
blocks for the dirty pages in memory. This then tries to access the
AGF buffer we just turfed out of memory. It's not found, so it gets
read in from disk.

This is all fine, except for the fact that the last writeback of the
AGF did not actually reach disk. The AGF on disk is stale compared
to the in-memory state held by the perag, and so they don't match
and the assert fires.

Then other operations on that inode hang because the task was killed
whilst holding inode locks. e.g:

Workqueue: xfs-conv/dm-12 xfs_end_io
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x650/0xb10
schedule+0x6d/0xf0
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30
rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x31a/0x5f0
down_write+0x43/0x60
xfs_ilock+0x1a8/0x210
xfs_trans_alloc_inode+0x9c/0x240
xfs_iomap_write_unwritten+0xe3/0x300
xfs_end_ioend+0x90/0x130
xfs_end_io+0xce/0x100
process_scheduled_works+0x1d4/0x400
worker_thread+0x234/0x2e0
kthread+0x147/0x170
ret_from_fork+0x3e/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>

and it's all down hill from there.

Memory pressure is one way to trigger this, another is to run "echo
3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" randomly while tests are running.

Regardless of how it is triggered, this effectively takes down the
system once umount hangs because it's holding a sb->s_umount lock
exclusive and now every sync(1) call gets stuck on it.

Fix this by replacing the asserts with a corruption detection check
and a shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>