fscache: Fix reference overput in fscache_attach_object() error handling
When a cookie is allocated that causes fscache_object structs to be
allocated, those objects are initialised with the cookie pointer, but
aren't blessed with a ref on that cookie unless the attachment is
successfully completed in fscache_attach_object().
If attachment fails because the parent object was dying or there was a
collision, fscache_attach_object() returns without incrementing the cookie
counter - but upon failure of this function, the object is released which
then puts the cookie, whether or not a ref was taken on the cookie.
Fix this by taking a ref on the cookie when it is assigned in
fscache_object_init(), even when we're creating a root object.
Analysis from Kiran Kumar:
This bug has been seen in 4.4.0-124-generic #148-Ubuntu kernel
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1776277
fscache cookie ref count updated incorrectly during fscache object
allocation resulting in following Oops.
kernel BUG at /build/linux-Y09MKI/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/internal.h:321!
kernel BUG at /build/linux-Y09MKI/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/cookie.c:639!
[Cause]
Two threads are trying to do operate on a cookie and two objects.
(1) One thread tries to unmount the filesystem and in process goes over a
huge list of objects marking them dead and deleting the objects.
cookie->usage is also decremented in following path:
nfs_fscache_release_super_cookie
-> __fscache_relinquish_cookie
->__fscache_cookie_put
->BUG_ON(atomic_read(&cookie->usage) <= 0);
(2) A second thread tries to lookup an object for reading data in following
path:
fscache_alloc_object
1) cachefiles_alloc_object
-> fscache_object_init
-> assign cookie, but usage not bumped.
2) fscache_attach_object -> fails in cant_attach_object because the
cookie's backing object or cookie's->parent object are going away
3) fscache_put_object
-> cachefiles_put_object
->fscache_object_destroy
->fscache_cookie_put
->BUG_ON(atomic_read(&cookie->usage) <= 0);
[NOTE from dhowells] It's unclear as to the circumstances in which (2) can
take place, given that thread (1) is in nfs_kill_super(), however a
conflicting NFS mount with slightly different parameters that creates a
different superblock would do it. A backtrace from Kiran seems to show
that this is a possibility:
kernel BUG at/build/linux-Y09MKI/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/cookie.c:639!
...
RIP: __fscache_cookie_put+0x3a/0x40 [fscache]
Call Trace:
__fscache_relinquish_cookie+0x87/0x120 [fscache]
nfs_fscache_release_super_cookie+0x2d/0xb0 [nfs]
nfs_kill_super+0x29/0x40 [nfs]
deactivate_locked_super+0x48/0x80
deactivate_super+0x5c/0x60
cleanup_mnt+0x3f/0x90
__cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20
task_work_run+0x86/0xb0
exit_to_usermode_loop+0xc2/0xd0
syscall_return_slowpath+0x4e/0x60
int_ret_from_sys_call+0x25/0x9f
[Fix] Bump up the cookie usage in fscache_object_init, when it is first
being assigned a cookie atomically such that the cookie is added and bumped
up if its refcount is not zero. Remove the assignment in
fscache_attach_object().
[Testcase]
I have run ~100 hours of NFS stress tests and not seen this bug recur.
[Regression Potential]
- Limited to fscache/cachefiles.
Fixes: ccc4fc3d11e9 ("FS-Cache: Implement the cookie management part of the netfs API")
Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar Modukuri <kiran.modukuri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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