Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: compress: fix to call f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback() in f2fs_write_raw_pages()

From: Chao Yu
Date: Sun Mar 26 2023 - 09:47:53 EST


On 2023/3/21 1:22, Yangtao Li wrote:
BUG_ON() will be triggered when writing files concurrently,
because the same page is writtenback multiple times.

1597 void folio_end_writeback(struct folio *folio)
1598 {
......
1618 if (!__folio_end_writeback(folio))
1619 BUG();
......
1625 }

kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1619!
Call Trace:
<TASK>
f2fs_write_end_io+0x1a0/0x370
blk_update_request+0x6c/0x410
blk_mq_end_request+0x15/0x130
blk_complete_reqs+0x3c/0x50
__do_softirq+0xb8/0x29b
? sort_range+0x20/0x20
run_ksoftirqd+0x19/0x20
smpboot_thread_fn+0x10b/0x1d0
kthread+0xde/0x110
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
</TASK>

Below is the concurrency scenario:

[Process A] [Process B] [Process C]
f2fs_write_raw_pages()
- redirty_page_for_writepage()
- unlock page()
f2fs_do_write_data_page()
- lock_page()
- clear_page_dirty_for_io()
- set_page_writeback() [1st writeback]
.....
- unlock page()

generic_perform_write()
- f2fs_write_begin()
- wait_for_stable_page()

- f2fs_write_end()
- set_page_dirty()

- lock_page()
- f2fs_do_write_data_page()
- set_page_writeback() [2st writeback]

This problem was introduced by the previous commit 7377e853967b ("f2fs:
compress: fix potential deadlock of compress file"). All pagelocks were
released in f2fs_write_raw_pages(), but whether the page was
in the writeback state was ignored in the subsequent writing process.
Let's fix it by waiting for the page to writeback before writing.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Fixes: 4c8ff7095bef ("f2fs: support data compression")
Fixes: 7377e853967b ("f2fs: compress: fix potential deadlock of compress file")
Signed-off-by: Qi Han <hanqi@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,