[PATCH 3.14 19/39] dm cache: fix race affecting dirty block count

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@xxxxxx>

commit 44fa816bb778edbab6b6ddaaf24908dd6295937e upstream.

nr_dirty is updated without locking, causing it to drift so that it is
non-zero (either a small positive integer, or a very large one when an
underflow occurs) even when there are no actual dirty blocks.  This was
due to a race between the workqueue and map function accessing nr_dirty
in parallel without proper protection.

People were seeing under runs due to a race on increment/decrement of
nr_dirty, see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/648

Fix this by using an atomic_t for nr_dirty.

Reported-by: roma1390@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c |   13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ struct cache {
 	/*
 	 * cache_size entries, dirty if set
 	 */
-	dm_cblock_t nr_dirty;
+	atomic_t nr_dirty;
 	unsigned long *dirty_bitset;
 
 	/*
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ static bool is_dirty(struct cache *cache
 static void set_dirty(struct cache *cache, dm_oblock_t oblock, dm_cblock_t cblock)
 {
 	if (!test_and_set_bit(from_cblock(cblock), cache->dirty_bitset)) {
-		cache->nr_dirty = to_cblock(from_cblock(cache->nr_dirty) + 1);
+		atomic_inc(&cache->nr_dirty);
 		policy_set_dirty(cache->policy, oblock);
 	}
 }
@@ -502,8 +502,7 @@ static void clear_dirty(struct cache *ca
 {
 	if (test_and_clear_bit(from_cblock(cblock), cache->dirty_bitset)) {
 		policy_clear_dirty(cache->policy, oblock);
-		cache->nr_dirty = to_cblock(from_cblock(cache->nr_dirty) - 1);
-		if (!from_cblock(cache->nr_dirty))
+		if (atomic_dec_return(&cache->nr_dirty) == 0)
 			dm_table_event(cache->ti->table);
 	}
 }
@@ -2286,7 +2285,7 @@ static int cache_create(struct cache_arg
 	atomic_set(&cache->quiescing_ack, 0);
 
 	r = -ENOMEM;
-	cache->nr_dirty = 0;
+	atomic_set(&cache->nr_dirty, 0);
 	cache->dirty_bitset = alloc_bitset(from_cblock(cache->cache_size));
 	if (!cache->dirty_bitset) {
 		*error = "could not allocate dirty bitset";
@@ -2828,7 +2827,7 @@ static void cache_status(struct dm_targe
 
 		residency = policy_residency(cache->policy);
 
-		DMEMIT("%u %llu/%llu %u %llu/%llu %u %u %u %u %u %u %llu ",
+		DMEMIT("%u %llu/%llu %u %llu/%llu %u %u %u %u %u %u %lu ",
 		       (unsigned)(DM_CACHE_METADATA_BLOCK_SIZE >> SECTOR_SHIFT),
 		       (unsigned long long)(nr_blocks_metadata - nr_free_blocks_metadata),
 		       (unsigned long long)nr_blocks_metadata,
@@ -2841,7 +2840,7 @@ static void cache_status(struct dm_targe
 		       (unsigned) atomic_read(&cache->stats.write_miss),
 		       (unsigned) atomic_read(&cache->stats.demotion),
 		       (unsigned) atomic_read(&cache->stats.promotion),
-		       (unsigned long long) from_cblock(cache->nr_dirty));
+		       (unsigned long) atomic_read(&cache->nr_dirty));
 
 		if (writethrough_mode(&cache->features))
 			DMEMIT("1 writethrough ");


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