tree 3162717e43b0e734295d0021a41f136257d49eed
parent 23fcb3340d033d9f081e21e6c12c2db7eaa541d3
author Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> 1529648765 -0700
committer Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> 1529649098 -0700

xfs: xfs_iflush_abort() can be called twice on cluster writeback failure

When a corrupt inode is detected during xfs_iflush_cluster, we can
get a shutdown ASSERT failure like this:

XFS (pmem1): Metadata corruption detected at xfs_symlink_shortform_verify+0x5c/0xa0, inode 0x86627 data fork
XFS (pmem1): Unmount and run xfs_repair
XFS (pmem1): xfs_do_force_shutdown(0x8) called from line 3372 of file fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c.  Return address = ffffffff814f4116
XFS (pmem1): Corruption of in-memory data detected.  Shutting down filesystem
XFS (pmem1): xfs_do_force_shutdown(0x1) called from line 222 of file fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c.  Return address = ffffffff814a8a88
XFS (pmem1): xfs_do_force_shutdown(0x1) called from line 222 of file fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c.  Return address = ffffffff814a8ef9
XFS (pmem1): Please umount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)
XFS: Assertion failed: xfs_isiflocked(ip), file: fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h, line: 258
.....
Call Trace:
 xfs_iflush_abort+0x10a/0x110
 xfs_iflush+0xf3/0x390
 xfs_inode_item_push+0x126/0x1e0
 xfsaild+0x2c5/0x890
 kthread+0x11c/0x140
 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

Essentially, xfs_iflush_abort() has been called twice on the
original inode that that was flushed. This happens because the
inode has been flushed to teh buffer successfully via
xfs_iflush_int(), and so when another inode is detected as corrupt
in xfs_iflush_cluster, the buffer is marked stale and EIO, and
iodone callbacks are run on it.

Running the iodone callbacks walks across the original inode and
calls xfs_iflush_abort() on it. When xfs_iflush_cluster() returns
to xfs_iflush(), it runs the error path for that function, and that
calls xfs_iflush_abort() on the inode a second time, leading to the
above assert failure as the inode is not flush locked anymore.

This bug has been there a long time.

The simple fix would be to just avoid calling xfs_iflush_abort() in
xfs_iflush() if we've got a failure from xfs_iflush_cluster().
However, xfs_iflush_cluster() has magic delwri buffer handling that
means it may or may not have run IO completion on the buffer, and
hence sometimes we have to call xfs_iflush_abort() from
xfs_iflush(), and sometimes we shouldn't.

After reading through all the error paths and the delwri buffer
code, it's clear that the error handling in xfs_iflush_cluster() is
unnecessary. If the buffer is delwri, it leaves it on the delwri
list so that when the delwri list is submitted it sees a shutdown
fliesystem in xfs_buf_submit() and that marks the buffer stale, EIO
and runs IO completion. i.e. exactly what xfs+iflush_cluster() does
when it's not a delwri buffer. Further, marking a buffer stale
clears the _XBF_DELWRI_Q flag on the buffer, which means when
submission of the buffer occurs, it just skips over it and releases
it.

IOWs, the error handling in xfs_iflush_cluster doesn't need to care
if the buffer is already on a the delwri queue or not - it just
needs to mark the buffer stale, EIO and run completions. That means
we can just use the easy fix for xfs_iflush() to avoid the double
abort.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>