xfs: use ->b_state to fix buffer I/O accounting release race

We've had user reports of unmount hangs in xfs_wait_buftarg() that
analysis shows is due to btp->bt_io_count == -1. bt_io_count
represents the count of in-flight asynchronous buffers and thus
should always be >= 0. xfs_wait_buftarg() waits for this value to
stabilize to zero in order to ensure that all untracked (with
respect to the lru) buffers have completed I/O processing before
unmount proceeds to tear down in-core data structures.

The value of -1 implies an I/O accounting decrement race. Indeed,
the fact that xfs_buf_ioacct_dec() is called from xfs_buf_rele()
(where the buffer lock is no longer held) means that bp->b_flags can
be updated from an unsafe context. While a user-level reproducer is
currently not available, some intrusive hacks to run racing buffer
lookups/ioacct/releases from multiple threads was used to
successfully manufacture this problem.

Existing callers do not expect to acquire the buffer lock from
xfs_buf_rele(). Therefore, we can not safely update ->b_flags from
this context. It turns out that we already have separate buffer
state bits and associated serialization for dealing with buffer LRU
state in the form of ->b_state and ->b_lock. Therefore, replace the
_XBF_IN_FLIGHT flag with a ->b_state variant, update the I/O
accounting wrappers appropriately and make sure they are used with
the correct locking. This ensures that buffer in-flight state can be
modified at buffer release time without racing with modifications
from a buffer lock holder.

Fixes: 9c7504aa72b6 ("xfs: track and serialize in-flight async buffers against unmount")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.8+
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Tested-by: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
index 8d1d44f87ce9..1508121f29f2 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ typedef enum {
 #define _XBF_KMEM	 (1 << 21)/* backed by heap memory */
 #define _XBF_DELWRI_Q	 (1 << 22)/* buffer on a delwri queue */
 #define _XBF_COMPOUND	 (1 << 23)/* compound buffer */
-#define _XBF_IN_FLIGHT	 (1 << 25) /* I/O in flight, for accounting purposes */
 
 typedef unsigned int xfs_buf_flags_t;
 
@@ -84,14 +83,14 @@ typedef unsigned int xfs_buf_flags_t;
 	{ _XBF_PAGES,		"PAGES" }, \
 	{ _XBF_KMEM,		"KMEM" }, \
 	{ _XBF_DELWRI_Q,	"DELWRI_Q" }, \
-	{ _XBF_COMPOUND,	"COMPOUND" }, \
-	{ _XBF_IN_FLIGHT,	"IN_FLIGHT" }
+	{ _XBF_COMPOUND,	"COMPOUND" }
 
 
 /*
  * Internal state flags.
  */
 #define XFS_BSTATE_DISPOSE	 (1 << 0)	/* buffer being discarded */
+#define XFS_BSTATE_IN_FLIGHT	 (1 << 1)	/* I/O in flight */
 
 /*
  * The xfs_buftarg contains 2 notions of "sector size" -