[patch 25/36] ext4: Fix race between read_block_bitmap() andmark_diskspace_used()

[Greg KH]

2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(cherry picked from commit e8134b27e351e813414da3b95aa8eac6d3908088)

We need to make sure we update the block bitmap and clear
EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag with sb_bgl_lock held, since
ext4_read_block_bitmap() looks at EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT to decide
whether to initialize the block bitmap each time it is called
(introduced by commit c806e68f), and this can race with block
allocations in ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used().

ext4_read_block_bitmap does:

spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
	ext4_init_block_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);

Now on the block allocation side we do

mb_set_bits(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group), bitmap_bh->b_data,
			ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len);
....
spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group));
if (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
	gdp->bg_flags &= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT);

ie on allocation we update the bitmap then we take the sb_bgl_lock
and clear the EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag. What can happen is a
parallel ext4_read_block_bitmap can zero out the bitmap in between
the above mb_set_bits and spin_lock(sb_bg_lock..)

The race results in below user visible errors
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_release_inode_pa: free 100, pa_free 105
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): mb_free_blocks: double-free of inode 0's block ..

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c |   15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -1070,7 +1070,10 @@ static void mb_clear_bits(spinlock_t *lo
 			cur += 32;
 			continue;
 		}
-		mb_clear_bit_atomic(lock, cur, bm);
+		if (lock)
+			mb_clear_bit_atomic(lock, cur, bm);
+		else
+			mb_clear_bit(cur, bm);
 		cur++;
 	}
 }
@@ -1088,7 +1091,10 @@ static void mb_set_bits(spinlock_t *lock
 			cur += 32;
 			continue;
 		}
-		mb_set_bit_atomic(lock, cur, bm);
+		if (lock)
+			mb_set_bit_atomic(lock, cur, bm);
+		else
+			mb_set_bit(cur, bm);
 		cur++;
 	}
 }
@@ -3143,10 +3149,9 @@ ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used(struct ext4_
 		}
 	}
 #endif
-	mb_set_bits(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group), bitmap_bh->b_data,
-				ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len);
-
 	spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group));
+	mb_set_bits(NULL, bitmap_bh->b_data,
+				ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start, ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len);
 	if (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
 		gdp->bg_flags &= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT);
 		gdp->bg_free_blocks_count =

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