Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] jbd2: fix race when writing superblock
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
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From:   "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
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Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:17:39 +0800
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On 2019/2/12 9:19, Theodore Ts'o Wrote:
> The jbd2 superblock is lockless now, so there is probably a race
> condition between writing it so disk and modifing contents of it, which
> may lead to checksum error. The following race is the one case that we
> have captured.
> 
> jbd2                                fsstress
> jbd2_journal_commit_transaction
>  jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail
>   jbd2_write_superblock
>    jbd2_superblock_csum_set         jbd2_journal_revoke
>                                      jbd2_journal_set_features(revork)
>                                      modify superblock
>    submit_bh(checksum incorrect)
> 
> Fix this by locking the buffer head before modifing it.  We always
> write the jbd2 superblock after we modify it, so this just means
> calling the lock_buffer() a little earlier.
> 

I check the Linux 5.0-rc6 source code, there is one exception, which is
jbd2_journal_set_features(), it will modify the jbd2 superblock buffer
and will not wirte the jbd2 superblock. So the buffer is still lockless
in this case and the race mentioned above is still there.

Thanks,
Yi.

> This checksum corruption problem can be reproduced by xfstests
> generic/475.
> 
> Reported-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> ---
> 
> v1->v2:
>   - Fix missing unlock when jbd2_mark_journal_empty() doesn't need to
>     do anything
> 
>  fs/jbd2/journal.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> index 88d8f22d2cba..a8082c86d569 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> @@ -1356,6 +1356,10 @@ static int journal_reset(journal_t *journal)
>  	return jbd2_journal_start_thread(journal);
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * This function expects that the caller will have locked the journal
> + * buffer head, and will return with it unlocked
> + */
>  static int jbd2_write_superblock(journal_t *journal, int write_flags)
>  {
>  	struct buffer_head *bh = journal->j_sb_buffer;
> @@ -1365,7 +1369,6 @@ static int jbd2_write_superblock(journal_t *journal, int write_flags)
>  	trace_jbd2_write_superblock(journal, write_flags);
>  	if (!(journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
>  		write_flags &= ~(REQ_FUA | REQ_PREFLUSH);
> -	lock_buffer(bh);
>  	if (buffer_write_io_error(bh)) {
>  		/*
>  		 * Oh, dear.  A previous attempt to write the journal
> @@ -1424,6 +1427,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail(journal_t *journal, tid_t tail_tid,
>  	jbd_debug(1, "JBD2: updating superblock (start %lu, seq %u)\n",
>  		  tail_block, tail_tid);
>  
> +	lock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);
>  	sb->s_sequence = cpu_to_be32(tail_tid);
>  	sb->s_start    = cpu_to_be32(tail_block);
>  
> @@ -1454,18 +1458,17 @@ static void jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal_t *journal, int write_op)
>  	journal_superblock_t *sb = journal->j_superblock;
>  
>  	BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex));
> -	read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> -	/* Is it already empty? */
> -	if (sb->s_start == 0) {
> -		read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> +	lock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);
> +	if (sb->s_start == 0) {		/* Is it already empty? */
> +		unlock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);
>  		return;
>  	}
> +
>  	jbd_debug(1, "JBD2: Marking journal as empty (seq %d)\n",
>  		  journal->j_tail_sequence);
>  
>  	sb->s_sequence = cpu_to_be32(journal->j_tail_sequence);
>  	sb->s_start    = cpu_to_be32(0);
> -	read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
>  
>  	jbd2_write_superblock(journal, write_op);
>  
> @@ -1488,9 +1491,8 @@ void jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno(journal_t *journal)
>  	journal_superblock_t *sb = journal->j_superblock;
>  	int errcode;
>  
> -	read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> +	lock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);
>  	errcode = journal->j_errno;
> -	read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
>  	if (errcode == -ESHUTDOWN)
>  		errcode = 0;
>  	jbd_debug(1, "JBD2: updating superblock error (errno %d)\n", errcode);
>