[PATCH 4.9 40/44] fs/writeback.c: use rcu_barrier() to wait for inflight wb switches going into workqueue when umount

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit ec084de929e419e51bcdafaafe567d9e7d0273b7 upstream.

synchronize_rcu() didn't wait for call_rcu() callbacks, so inode wb
switch may not go to the workqueue after synchronize_rcu().  Thus
previous scheduled switches was not finished even flushing the
workqueue, which will cause a NULL pointer dereferenced followed below.

  VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of vdd. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000278
    evict+0xb3/0x180
    iput+0x1b0/0x230
    inode_switch_wbs_work_fn+0x3c0/0x6a0
    worker_thread+0x4e/0x490
    ? process_one_work+0x410/0x410
    kthread+0xe6/0x100
    ret_from_fork+0x39/0x50

Replace the synchronize_rcu() call with a rcu_barrier() to wait for all
pending callbacks to finish.  And inc isw_nr_in_flight after call_rcu()
in inode_switch_wbs() to make more sense.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190429024108.54150-1-jiufei.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/fs-writeback.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -530,8 +530,6 @@ static void inode_switch_wbs(struct inod
 
 	isw->inode = inode;
 
-	atomic_inc(&isw_nr_in_flight);
-
 	/*
 	 * In addition to synchronizing among switchers, I_WB_SWITCH tells
 	 * the RCU protected stat update paths to grab the mapping's
@@ -539,6 +537,9 @@ static void inode_switch_wbs(struct inod
 	 * Let's continue after I_WB_SWITCH is guaranteed to be visible.
 	 */
 	call_rcu(&isw->rcu_head, inode_switch_wbs_rcu_fn);
+
+	atomic_inc(&isw_nr_in_flight);
+
 	goto out_unlock;
 
 out_free:
@@ -908,7 +909,11 @@ restart:
 void cgroup_writeback_umount(void)
 {
 	if (atomic_read(&isw_nr_in_flight)) {
-		synchronize_rcu();
+		/*
+		 * Use rcu_barrier() to wait for all pending callbacks to
+		 * ensure that all in-flight wb switches are in the workqueue.
+		 */
+		rcu_barrier();
 		flush_workqueue(isw_wq);
 	}
 }