[PATCH 3.2 72/79] nilfs2: fix segctor bug that causes file system corruption

[Ben Hutchings]

3.2.55-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@xxxxxxx>

commit 70f2fe3a26248724d8a5019681a869abdaf3e89a upstream.

There is a bug in the function nilfs_segctor_collect, which results in
active data being written to a segment, that is marked as clean.  It is
possible, that this segment is selected for a later segment
construction, whereby the old data is overwritten.

The problem shows itself with the following kernel log message:

  nilfs_sufile_do_cancel_free: segment 6533 must be clean

Usually a few hours later the file system gets corrupted:

  NILFS: bad btree node (blocknr=8748107): level = 0, flags = 0x0, nchildren = 0
  NILFS error (device sdc1): nilfs_bmap_last_key: broken bmap (inode number=114660)

The issue can be reproduced with a file system that is nearly full and
with the cleaner running, while some IO intensive task is running.
Although it is quite hard to reproduce.

This is what happens:

 1. The cleaner starts the segment construction
 2. nilfs_segctor_collect is called
 3. sc_stage is on NILFS_ST_SUFILE and segments are freed
 4. sc_stage is on NILFS_ST_DAT current segment is full
 5. nilfs_segctor_extend_segments is called, which
    allocates a new segment
 6. The new segment is one of the segments freed in step 3
 7. nilfs_sufile_cancel_freev is called and produces an error message
 8. Loop around and the collection starts again
 9. sc_stage is on NILFS_ST_SUFILE and segments are freed
    including the newly allocated segment, which will contain active
    data and can be allocated at a later time
10. A few hours later another segment construction allocates the
    segment and causes file system corruption

This can be prevented by simply reordering the statements.  If
nilfs_sufile_cancel_freev is called before nilfs_segctor_extend_segments
the freed segments are marked as dirty and cannot be allocated any more.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
@@ -1437,17 +1437,19 @@ static int nilfs_segctor_collect(struct
 
 		nilfs_clear_logs(&sci->sc_segbufs);
 
-		err = nilfs_segctor_extend_segments(sci, nilfs, nadd);
-		if (unlikely(err))
-			return err;
-
 		if (sci->sc_stage.flags & NILFS_CF_SUFREED) {
 			err = nilfs_sufile_cancel_freev(nilfs->ns_sufile,
 							sci->sc_freesegs,
 							sci->sc_nfreesegs,
 							NULL);
 			WARN_ON(err); /* do not happen */
+			sci->sc_stage.flags &= ~NILFS_CF_SUFREED;
 		}
+
+		err = nilfs_segctor_extend_segments(sci, nilfs, nadd);
+		if (unlikely(err))
+			return err;
+
 		nadd = min_t(int, nadd << 1, SC_MAX_SEGDELTA);
 		sci->sc_stage = prev_stage;
 	}

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