When creating a snapshot of a subvolume that was created in the current
transaction, we can end up not persisting a dirty extent buffer that is
referenced by the snapshot, resulting in IO errors due to checksum failures
when trying to read the extent buffer later from disk. A sequence of steps
that leads to this is the following:
1) At ioctl.c:create_subvol() we allocate an extent buffer, with logical
address 36007936, for the leaf/root of a new subvolume that has an ID
of 291. We mark the extent buffer as dirty, and at this point the
subvolume tree has a single node/leaf which is also its root (level 0);
2) We no longer commit the transaction used to create the subvolume at
create_subvol(). We used to, but that was recently removed in
commit 1b53e51a4a8f ("btrfs: don't commit transaction for every subvol
create");
3) The transaction used to create the subvolume has an ID of 33, so the
extent buffer 36007936 has a generation of 33;
4) Several updates happen to subvolume 291 during transaction 33, several
files created and its tree height changes from 0 to 1, so we end up with
a new root at level 1 and the extent buffer 36007936 is now a leaf of
that new root node, which is extent buffer 36048896.
The commit root remains as 36007936, since we are still at transaction
33;
5) Creation of a snapshot of subvolume 291, with an ID of 292, starts at
ioctl.c:create_snapshot(). This triggers a commit of transaction 33 and
we end up at transaction.c:create_pending_snapshot(), in the critical
section of a transaction commit.
There we COW the root of subvolume 291, which is extent buffer 36048896.
The COW operation returns extent buffer 36048896, since there's no need
to COW because the extent buffer was created in this transaction and it
was not written yet.
The we call btrfs_copy_root() against the root node 36048896. During
this operation we allocate a new extent buffer to turn into the root
node of the snapshot, copy the contents of the root node 36048896 into
this snapshot root extent buffer, set the owner to 292 (the ID of the
snapshot), etc, and then we call btrfs_inc_ref(). This will create a
delayed reference for each leaf pointed by the root node with a
reference root of 292 - this includes a reference for the leaf
36007936.
After that we set the bit BTRFS_ROOT_FORCE_COW in the root's state.
Then we call btrfs_insert_dir_item(), to create the directory entry in
in the tree of subvolume 291 that points to the snapshot. This ends up
needing to modify leaf 36007936 to insert the respective directory
items. Because the bit BTRFS_ROOT_FORCE_COW is set for the root's state,
we need to COW the leaf. We end up at btrfs_force_cow_block() and then
at update_ref_for_cow().
At update_ref_for_cow() we call btrfs_block_can_be_shared() which
returns false, despite the fact the leaf 36007936 is shared - the
subvolume's root and the snapshot's root point to that leaf. The
reason that it incorrectly returns false is because the commit root
of the subvolume is extent buffer 36007936 - it was the initial root
of the subvolume when we created it. So btrfs_block_can_be_shared()
which has the following logic:
int btrfs_block_can_be_shared(struct btrfs_root *root,
struct extent_buffer *buf)
{
if (test_bit(BTRFS_ROOT_SHAREABLE, &root->state) &&
buf != root->node && buf != root->commit_root &&
(btrfs_header_generation(buf) <=
btrfs_root_last_snapshot(&root->root_item) ||
btrfs_header_flag(buf, BTRFS_HEADER_FLAG_RELOC)))
return 1;
return 0;
}
Returns false (0) since 'buf' (extent buffer 36007936) matches the
root's commit root.
As a result, at update_ref_for_cow(), we don't check for the number
of references for extent buffer 36007936, we just assume it's not
shared and therefore that it has only 1 reference, so we set the local
variable 'refs' to 1.
Later on, in the final if-else statement at update_ref_for_cow():
static noinline int update_ref_for_cow(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
struct btrfs_root *root,
struct extent_buffer *buf,
struct extent_buffer *cow,
int *last_ref)
{
(...)
if (refs > 1) {
(...)
} else {
(...)
btrfs_clear_buffer_dirty(trans, buf);
*last_ref = 1;
}
}
So we mark the extent buffer 36007936 as not dirty, and as a result
we don't write it to disk later in the transaction commit, despite the
fact that the snapshot's root points to it.
Attempting to access the leaf or dumping the tree for example shows
that the extent buffer was not written:
$ btrfs inspect-internal dump-tree -t 292 /dev/sdb
btrfs-progs v6.2.2
file tree key (292 ROOT_ITEM 33)
node 36110336 level 1 items 2 free space 119 generation 33 owner 292
node 36110336 flags 0x1(WRITTEN) backref revision 1
checksum stored a8103e3e
checksum calced a8103e3e
fs uuid 90c9a46f-ae9f-4626-9aff-0cbf3e2e3a79
chunk uuid e8c9c885-78f4-4d31-85fe-89e5f5fd4a07
key (256 INODE_ITEM 0) block 36007936 gen 33
key (257 EXTENT_DATA 0) block 36052992 gen 33
checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
total bytes 107374182400
bytes used 38572032
uuid 90c9a46f-ae9f-4626-9aff-0cbf3e2e3a79
The respective on disk region is full of zeroes as the device was
trimmed at mkfs time.
Obviously 'btrfs check' also detects and complains about this:
$ btrfs check /dev/sdb
Opening filesystem to check...
Checking filesystem on /dev/sdb
UUID: 90c9a46f-ae9f-4626-9aff-0cbf3e2e3a79
generation: 33 (33)
[1/7] checking root items
[2/7] checking extents
checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
bad tree block 36007936, bytenr mismatch, want=36007936, have=0
owner ref check failed [36007936 4096]
ERROR: errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation
[3/7] checking free space tree
[4/7] checking fs roots
checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
bad tree block 36007936, bytenr mismatch, want=36007936, have=0
The following tree block(s) is corrupted in tree 292:
tree block bytenr: 36110336, level: 1, node key: (256, 1, 0)
root 292 root dir 256 not found
ERROR: errors found in fs roots
found 38572032 bytes used, error(s) found
total csum bytes: 16048
total tree bytes: 1265664
total fs tree bytes: 1118208
total extent tree bytes: 65536
btree space waste bytes: 562598
file data blocks allocated: 65978368
referenced 36569088
Fix this by updating btrfs_block_can_be_shared() to consider that an
extent buffer may be shared if it matches the commit root and if its
generation matches the current transaction's generation.
This can be reproduced with the following script:
$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
MNT=/mnt/sdi
DEV=/dev/sdi
# Use a filesystem with a 64K node size so that we have the same node
# size on every machine regardless of its page size (on x86_64 default
# node size is 16K due to the 4K page size, while on PPC it's 64K by
# default). This way we can make sure we are able to create a btree for
# the subvolume with a height of 2.
mkfs.btrfs -f -n 64K $DEV
mount $DEV $MNT
btrfs subvolume create $MNT/subvol
# Create a few empty files on the subvolume, this bumps its btree
# height to 2 (root node at level 1 and 2 leaves).
for ((i = 1; i <= 300; i++)); do
echo -n > $MNT/subvol/file_$i
done
btrfs subvolume snapshot -r $MNT/subvol $MNT/subvol/snap
umount $DEV
btrfs check $DEV
Running it on a 6.5 kernel (or any 6.6-rc kernel at the moment):
$ ./test.sh
Create subvolume '/mnt/sdi/subvol'
Create a readonly snapshot of '/mnt/sdi/subvol' in '/mnt/sdi/subvol/snap'
Opening filesystem to check...
Checking filesystem on /dev/sdi
UUID: bbdde2ff-7d02-45ca-8a73-3c36f23755a1
[1/7] checking root items
[2/7] checking extents
parent transid verify failed on 30539776 wanted 7 found 5
parent transid verify failed on 30539776 wanted 7 found 5
parent transid verify failed on 30539776 wanted 7 found 5
Ignoring transid failure
owner ref check failed [30539776 65536]
ERROR: errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation
[3/7] checking free space tree
[4/7] checking fs roots
parent transid verify failed on 30539776 wanted 7 found 5
Ignoring transid failure
Wrong key of child node/leaf, wanted: (256, 1, 0), have: (2, 132, 0)
Wrong generation of child node/leaf, wanted: 5, have: 7
root 257 root dir 256 not found
ERROR: errors found in fs roots
found 917504 bytes used, error(s) found
total csum bytes: 0
total tree bytes: 851968
total fs tree bytes: 393216
total extent tree bytes: 65536
btree space waste bytes: 736550
file data blocks allocated: 0
referenced 0
A test case for fstests will follow soon.
Fixes: 1b53e51a4a8f ("btrfs: don't commit transaction for every subvol create")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.5+
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>