If a write path in COW mode fails, either before submitting a bio for the
new extents or an actual IO error happens, we can end up allowing a fast
fsync to log file extent items that point to unwritten extents.
This is because dropping the extent maps happens when completing ordered
extents, at btrfs_finish_one_ordered(), and the completion of an ordered
extent is executed in a work queue.
This can result in a fast fsync to start logging file extent items based
on existing extent maps before the ordered extents complete, therefore
resulting in a log that has file extent items that point to unwritten
extents, resulting in a corrupt file if a crash happens after and the log
tree is replayed the next time the fs is mounted.
This can happen for both direct IO writes and buffered writes.
For example consider a direct IO write, in COW mode, that fails at
btrfs_dio_submit_io() because btrfs_extract_ordered_extent() returned an
error:
1) We call btrfs_finish_ordered_extent() with the 'uptodate' parameter
set to false, meaning an error happened;
2) That results in marking the ordered extent with the BTRFS_ORDERED_IOERR
flag;
3) btrfs_finish_ordered_extent() queues the completion of the ordered
extent - so that btrfs_finish_one_ordered() will be executed later in
a work queue. That function will drop extent maps in the range when
it's executed, since the extent maps point to unwritten locations
(signaled by the BTRFS_ORDERED_IOERR flag);
4) After calling btrfs_finish_ordered_extent() we keep going down the
write path and unlock the inode;
5) After that a fast fsync starts and locks the inode;
6) Before the work queue executes btrfs_finish_one_ordered(), the fsync
task sees the extent maps that point to the unwritten locations and
logs file extent items based on them - it does not know they are
unwritten, and the fast fsync path does not wait for ordered extents
to complete, which is an intentional behaviour in order to reduce
latency.
For the buffered write case, here's one example:
1) A fast fsync begins, and it starts by flushing delalloc and waiting for
the writeback to complete by calling filemap_fdatawait_range();
2) Flushing the dellaloc created a new extent map X;
3) During the writeback some IO error happened, and at the end io callback
(end_bbio_data_write()) we call btrfs_finish_ordered_extent(), which
sets the BTRFS_ORDERED_IOERR flag in the ordered extent and queues its
completion;
4) After queuing the ordered extent completion, the end io callback clears
the writeback flag from all pages (or folios), and from that moment the
fast fsync can proceed;
5) The fast fsync proceeds sees extent map X and logs a file extent item
based on extent map X, resulting in a log that points to an unwritten
data extent - because the ordered extent completion hasn't run yet, it
happens only after the logging.
To fix this make btrfs_finish_ordered_extent() set the inode flag
BTRFS_INODE_NEEDS_FULL_SYNC in case an error happened for a COW write,
so that a fast fsync will wait for ordered extent completion.
Note that this issues of using extent maps that point to unwritten
locations can not happen for reads, because in read paths we start by
locking the extent range and wait for any ordered extents in the range
to complete before looking for extent maps.
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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