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<title>xfs: also reject BULKSTAT_SINGLE in a mount user namespace</title>
<updated>2021-03-15T15:50:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-14T17:59:39+00:00</published>
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BULKSTAT_SINGLE exposed the ondisk uids/gids just like bulkstat, and can
be called on any inode, including ones not visible in the current mount.

Fixes: f736d93d76d3 ("xfs: support idmapped mounts")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
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BULKSTAT_SINGLE exposed the ondisk uids/gids just like bulkstat, and can
be called on any inode, including ones not visible in the current mount.

Fixes: f736d93d76d3 ("xfs: support idmapped mounts")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfs: force log and push AIL to clear pinned inodes when aborting mount</title>
<updated>2021-03-15T15:50:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-02T17:32:53+00:00</published>
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If we allocate quota inodes in the process of mounting a filesystem but
then decide to abort the mount, it's possible that the quota inodes are
sitting around pinned by the log.  Now that inode reclaim relies on the
AIL to flush inodes, we have to force the log and push the AIL in
between releasing the quota inodes and kicking off reclaim to tear down
all the incore inodes.  Do this by extracting the bits we need from the
unmount path and reusing them.  As an added bonus, failed writes during
a failed mount will not retry forever now.

This was originally found during a fuzz test of metadata directories
(xfs/1546), but the actual symptom was that reclaim hung up on the quota
inodes.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
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If we allocate quota inodes in the process of mounting a filesystem but
then decide to abort the mount, it's possible that the quota inodes are
sitting around pinned by the log.  Now that inode reclaim relies on the
AIL to flush inodes, we have to force the log and push the AIL in
between releasing the quota inodes and kicking off reclaim to tear down
all the incore inodes.  Do this by extracting the bits we need from the
unmount path and reusing them.  As an added bonus, failed writes during
a failed mount will not retry forever now.

This was originally found during a fuzz test of metadata directories
(xfs/1546), but the actual symptom was that reclaim hung up on the quota
inodes.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfs: fix quota accounting when a mount is idmapped</title>
<updated>2021-03-09T17:48:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-02T17:32:52+00:00</published>
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Nowadays, we indirectly use the idmap-aware helper functions in the VFS
to set the initial uid and gid of a file being created.  Unfortunately,
we didn't convert the quota code, which means we attach the wrong dquots
to files created on an idmapped mount.

Fixes: f736d93d76d3 ("xfs: support idmapped mounts")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
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Nowadays, we indirectly use the idmap-aware helper functions in the VFS
to set the initial uid and gid of a file being created.  Unfortunately,
we didn't convert the quota code, which means we attach the wrong dquots
to files created on an idmapped mount.

Fixes: f736d93d76d3 ("xfs: support idmapped mounts")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'xfs-5.12-merge-6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux</title>
<updated>2021-02-28T19:45:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-28T19:45:25+00:00</published>
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Pull more xfs updates from Darrick Wong:
 "The most notable fix here prevents premature reuse of freed metadata
  blocks, and adding the ability to detect accidental nested
  transactions, which are not allowed here.

   - Restore a disused sysctl control knob that was inadvertently
     dropped during the merge window to avoid fstests regressions.

   - Don't speculatively release freed blocks from the busy list until
     we're actually allocating them, which fixes a rare log recovery
     regression.

   - Don't nest transactions when scanning for free space.

   - Add an idiot^Wmaintainer light to detect nested transactions. ;)"

* tag 'xfs-5.12-merge-6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
  xfs: use current-&gt;journal_info for detecting transaction recursion
  xfs: don't nest transactions when scanning for eofblocks
  xfs: don't reuse busy extents on extent trim
  xfs: restore speculative_cow_prealloc_lifetime sysctl
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Pull more xfs updates from Darrick Wong:
 "The most notable fix here prevents premature reuse of freed metadata
  blocks, and adding the ability to detect accidental nested
  transactions, which are not allowed here.

   - Restore a disused sysctl control knob that was inadvertently
     dropped during the merge window to avoid fstests regressions.

   - Don't speculatively release freed blocks from the busy list until
     we're actually allocating them, which fixes a rare log recovery
     regression.

   - Don't nest transactions when scanning for free space.

   - Add an idiot^Wmaintainer light to detect nested transactions. ;)"

* tag 'xfs-5.12-merge-6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
  xfs: use current-&gt;journal_info for detecting transaction recursion
  xfs: don't nest transactions when scanning for eofblocks
  xfs: don't reuse busy extents on extent trim
  xfs: restore speculative_cow_prealloc_lifetime sysctl
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'block-5.12-2021-02-27' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2021-02-28T19:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-28T19:23:38+00:00</published>
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Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "A few stragglers (and one due to me missing it originally), and fixes
  for changes in this merge window mostly. In particular:

   - blktrace cleanups (Chaitanya, Greg)

   - Kill dead blk_pm_* functions (Bart)

   - Fixes for the bio alloc changes (Christoph)

   - Fix for the partition changes (Christoph, Ming)

   - Fix for turning off iopoll with polled IO inflight (Jeffle)

   - nbd disconnect fix (Josef)

   - loop fsync error fix (Mauricio)

   - kyber update depth fix (Yang)

   - max_sectors alignment fix (Mikulas)

   - Add bio_max_segs helper (Matthew)"

* tag 'block-5.12-2021-02-27' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (21 commits)
  block: Add bio_max_segs
  blktrace: fix documentation for blk_fill_rw()
  block: memory allocations in bounce_clone_bio must not fail
  block: remove the gfp_mask argument to bounce_clone_bio
  block: fix bounce_clone_bio for passthrough bios
  block-crypto-fallback: use a bio_set for splitting bios
  block: fix logging on capacity change
  blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary
  block: reopen the device in blkdev_reread_part
  block: don't skip empty device in in disk_uevent
  blktrace: remove debugfs file dentries from struct blk_trace
  nbd: handle device refs for DESTROY_ON_DISCONNECT properly
  kyber: introduce kyber_depth_updated()
  loop: fix I/O error on fsync() in detached loop devices
  block: fix potential IO hang when turning off io_poll
  block: get rid of the trace rq insert wrapper
  blktrace: fix blk_rq_merge documentation
  blktrace: fix blk_rq_issue documentation
  blktrace: add blk_fill_rwbs documentation comment
  block: remove superfluous param in blk_fill_rwbs()
  ...
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Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "A few stragglers (and one due to me missing it originally), and fixes
  for changes in this merge window mostly. In particular:

   - blktrace cleanups (Chaitanya, Greg)

   - Kill dead blk_pm_* functions (Bart)

   - Fixes for the bio alloc changes (Christoph)

   - Fix for the partition changes (Christoph, Ming)

   - Fix for turning off iopoll with polled IO inflight (Jeffle)

   - nbd disconnect fix (Josef)

   - loop fsync error fix (Mauricio)

   - kyber update depth fix (Yang)

   - max_sectors alignment fix (Mikulas)

   - Add bio_max_segs helper (Matthew)"

* tag 'block-5.12-2021-02-27' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (21 commits)
  block: Add bio_max_segs
  blktrace: fix documentation for blk_fill_rw()
  block: memory allocations in bounce_clone_bio must not fail
  block: remove the gfp_mask argument to bounce_clone_bio
  block: fix bounce_clone_bio for passthrough bios
  block-crypto-fallback: use a bio_set for splitting bios
  block: fix logging on capacity change
  blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary
  block: reopen the device in blkdev_reread_part
  block: don't skip empty device in in disk_uevent
  blktrace: remove debugfs file dentries from struct blk_trace
  nbd: handle device refs for DESTROY_ON_DISCONNECT properly
  kyber: introduce kyber_depth_updated()
  loop: fix I/O error on fsync() in detached loop devices
  block: fix potential IO hang when turning off io_poll
  block: get rid of the trace rq insert wrapper
  blktrace: fix blk_rq_merge documentation
  blktrace: fix blk_rq_issue documentation
  blktrace: add blk_fill_rwbs documentation comment
  block: remove superfluous param in blk_fill_rwbs()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>block: Add bio_max_segs</title>
<updated>2021-02-26T22:49:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-29T04:38:57+00:00</published>
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It's often inconvenient to use BIO_MAX_PAGES due to min() requiring the
sign to be the same.  Introduce bio_max_segs() and change BIO_MAX_PAGES to
be unsigned to make it easier for the users.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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It's often inconvenient to use BIO_MAX_PAGES due to min() requiring the
sign to be the same.  Introduce bio_max_segs() and change BIO_MAX_PAGES to
be unsigned to make it easier for the users.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfs: use current-&gt;journal_info for detecting transaction recursion</title>
<updated>2021-02-25T16:07:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-23T18:26:06+00:00</published>
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Because the iomap code using PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS to detect transaction
recursion in XFS is just wrong. Remove it from the iomap code and
replace it with XFS specific internal checks using
current-&gt;journal_info instead.

[djwong: This change also realigns the lifetime of NOFS flag changes to
match the incore transaction, instead of the inconsistent scheme we have
now.]

Fixes: 9070733b4efa ("xfs: abstract PF_FSTRANS to PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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Because the iomap code using PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS to detect transaction
recursion in XFS is just wrong. Remove it from the iomap code and
replace it with XFS specific internal checks using
current-&gt;journal_info instead.

[djwong: This change also realigns the lifetime of NOFS flag changes to
match the incore transaction, instead of the inconsistent scheme we have
now.]

Fixes: 9070733b4efa ("xfs: abstract PF_FSTRANS to PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfs: don't nest transactions when scanning for eofblocks</title>
<updated>2021-02-25T16:07:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-19T17:18:06+00:00</published>
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Brian Foster reported a lockdep warning on xfs/167:

============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
5.11.0-rc4 #35 Tainted: G        W I
--------------------------------------------
fsstress/17733 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff8e0fd1d90650 (sb_internal){++++}-{0:0}, at: xfs_free_eofblocks+0x104/0x1d0 [xfs]

but task is already holding lock:
ffff8e0fd1d90650 (sb_internal){++++}-{0:0}, at: xfs_trans_alloc_inode+0x5f/0x160 [xfs]

stack backtrace:
CPU: 38 PID: 17733 Comm: fsstress Tainted: G        W I       5.11.0-rc4 #35
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/01KPX8, BIOS 1.6.11 11/20/2018
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x8b/0xb0
 __lock_acquire.cold+0x159/0x2ab
 lock_acquire+0x116/0x370
 xfs_trans_alloc+0x1ad/0x310 [xfs]
 xfs_free_eofblocks+0x104/0x1d0 [xfs]
 xfs_blockgc_scan_inode+0x24/0x60 [xfs]
 xfs_inode_walk_ag+0x202/0x4b0 [xfs]
 xfs_inode_walk+0x66/0xc0 [xfs]
 xfs_trans_alloc+0x160/0x310 [xfs]
 xfs_trans_alloc_inode+0x5f/0x160 [xfs]
 xfs_alloc_file_space+0x105/0x300 [xfs]
 xfs_file_fallocate+0x270/0x460 [xfs]
 vfs_fallocate+0x14d/0x3d0
 __x64_sys_fallocate+0x3e/0x70
 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The cause of this is the new code that spurs a scan to garbage collect
speculative preallocations if we fail to reserve enough blocks while
allocating a transaction.  While the warning itself is a fairly benign
lockdep complaint, it does expose a potential livelock if the rwsem
behavior ever changes with regards to nesting read locks when someone's
waiting for a write lock.

Fix this by freeing the transaction and jumping back to xfs_trans_alloc
like this patch in the V4 submission[1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/161142798066.2171939.9311024588681972086.stgit@magnolia/

Fixes: a1a7d05a0576 ("xfs: flush speculative space allocations when we run out of space")
Reported-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson &lt;allison.henderson@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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Brian Foster reported a lockdep warning on xfs/167:

============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
5.11.0-rc4 #35 Tainted: G        W I
--------------------------------------------
fsstress/17733 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff8e0fd1d90650 (sb_internal){++++}-{0:0}, at: xfs_free_eofblocks+0x104/0x1d0 [xfs]

but task is already holding lock:
ffff8e0fd1d90650 (sb_internal){++++}-{0:0}, at: xfs_trans_alloc_inode+0x5f/0x160 [xfs]

stack backtrace:
CPU: 38 PID: 17733 Comm: fsstress Tainted: G        W I       5.11.0-rc4 #35
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/01KPX8, BIOS 1.6.11 11/20/2018
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x8b/0xb0
 __lock_acquire.cold+0x159/0x2ab
 lock_acquire+0x116/0x370
 xfs_trans_alloc+0x1ad/0x310 [xfs]
 xfs_free_eofblocks+0x104/0x1d0 [xfs]
 xfs_blockgc_scan_inode+0x24/0x60 [xfs]
 xfs_inode_walk_ag+0x202/0x4b0 [xfs]
 xfs_inode_walk+0x66/0xc0 [xfs]
 xfs_trans_alloc+0x160/0x310 [xfs]
 xfs_trans_alloc_inode+0x5f/0x160 [xfs]
 xfs_alloc_file_space+0x105/0x300 [xfs]
 xfs_file_fallocate+0x270/0x460 [xfs]
 vfs_fallocate+0x14d/0x3d0
 __x64_sys_fallocate+0x3e/0x70
 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The cause of this is the new code that spurs a scan to garbage collect
speculative preallocations if we fail to reserve enough blocks while
allocating a transaction.  While the warning itself is a fairly benign
lockdep complaint, it does expose a potential livelock if the rwsem
behavior ever changes with regards to nesting read locks when someone's
waiting for a write lock.

Fix this by freeing the transaction and jumping back to xfs_trans_alloc
like this patch in the V4 submission[1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/161142798066.2171939.9311024588681972086.stgit@magnolia/

Fixes: a1a7d05a0576 ("xfs: flush speculative space allocations when we run out of space")
Reported-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson &lt;allison.henderson@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xfs: don't reuse busy extents on extent trim</title>
<updated>2021-02-25T15:58:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Foster</name>
<email>bfoster@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-23T18:22:39+00:00</published>
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Freed extents are marked busy from the point the freeing transaction
commits until the associated CIL context is checkpointed to the log.
This prevents reuse and overwrite of recently freed blocks before
the changes are committed to disk, which can lead to corruption
after a crash. The exception to this rule is that metadata
allocation is allowed to reuse busy extents because metadata changes
are also logged.

As of commit 97d3ac75e5e0 ("xfs: exact busy extent tracking"), XFS
has allowed modification or complete invalidation of outstanding
busy extents for metadata allocations. This implementation assumes
that use of the associated extent is imminent, which is not always
the case. For example, the trimmed extent might not satisfy the
minimum length of the allocation request, or the allocation
algorithm might be involved in a search for the optimal result based
on locality.

generic/019 reproduces a corruption caused by this scenario. First,
a metadata block (usually a bmbt or symlink block) is freed from an
inode. A subsequent bmbt split on an unrelated inode attempts a near
mode allocation request that invalidates the busy block during the
search, but does not ultimately allocate it. Due to the busy state
invalidation, the block is no longer considered busy to subsequent
allocation. A direct I/O write request immediately allocates the
block and writes to it. Finally, the filesystem crashes while in a
state where the initial metadata block free had not committed to the
on-disk log. After recovery, the original metadata block is in its
original location as expected, but has been corrupted by the
aforementioned dio.

This demonstrates that it is fundamentally unsafe to modify busy
extent state for extents that are not guaranteed to be allocated.
This applies to pretty much all of the code paths that currently
trim busy extents for one reason or another. Therefore to address
this problem, drop the reuse mechanism from the busy extent trim
path. This code already knows how to return partial non-busy ranges
of the targeted free extent and higher level code tracks the busy
state of the allocation attempt. If a block allocation fails where
one or more candidate extents is busy, we force the log and retry
the allocation.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R &lt;chandanrlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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Freed extents are marked busy from the point the freeing transaction
commits until the associated CIL context is checkpointed to the log.
This prevents reuse and overwrite of recently freed blocks before
the changes are committed to disk, which can lead to corruption
after a crash. The exception to this rule is that metadata
allocation is allowed to reuse busy extents because metadata changes
are also logged.

As of commit 97d3ac75e5e0 ("xfs: exact busy extent tracking"), XFS
has allowed modification or complete invalidation of outstanding
busy extents for metadata allocations. This implementation assumes
that use of the associated extent is imminent, which is not always
the case. For example, the trimmed extent might not satisfy the
minimum length of the allocation request, or the allocation
algorithm might be involved in a search for the optimal result based
on locality.

generic/019 reproduces a corruption caused by this scenario. First,
a metadata block (usually a bmbt or symlink block) is freed from an
inode. A subsequent bmbt split on an unrelated inode attempts a near
mode allocation request that invalidates the busy block during the
search, but does not ultimately allocate it. Due to the busy state
invalidation, the block is no longer considered busy to subsequent
allocation. A direct I/O write request immediately allocates the
block and writes to it. Finally, the filesystem crashes while in a
state where the initial metadata block free had not committed to the
on-disk log. After recovery, the original metadata block is in its
original location as expected, but has been corrupted by the
aforementioned dio.

This demonstrates that it is fundamentally unsafe to modify busy
extent state for extents that are not guaranteed to be allocated.
This applies to pretty much all of the code paths that currently
trim busy extents for one reason or another. Therefore to address
this problem, drop the reuse mechanism from the busy extent trim
path. This code already knows how to return partial non-busy ranges
of the targeted free extent and higher level code tracks the busy
state of the allocation attempt. If a block allocation fails where
one or more candidate extents is busy, we force the log and retry
the allocation.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R &lt;chandanrlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<title>xfs: restore speculative_cow_prealloc_lifetime sysctl</title>
<updated>2021-02-24T18:16:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-12T17:14:47+00:00</published>
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In commit 9669f51de5c0 I tried to get rid of the undocumented cow gc
lifetime knob.  The knob's function was never documented and it now
doesn't really have a function since eof and cow gc have been
consolidated.

Regrettably, xfs/231 relies on it and regresses on for-next.  I did not
succeed at getting far enough through fstests patch review for the fixup
to land in time.

Restore the sysctl knob, document what it did (does?), put it on the
deprecation schedule, and rip out a redundant function.

Fixes: 9669f51de5c0 ("xfs: consolidate the eofblocks and cowblocks workers")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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In commit 9669f51de5c0 I tried to get rid of the undocumented cow gc
lifetime knob.  The knob's function was never documented and it now
doesn't really have a function since eof and cow gc have been
consolidated.

Regrettably, xfs/231 relies on it and regresses on for-next.  I did not
succeed at getting far enough through fstests patch review for the fixup
to land in time.

Restore the sysctl knob, document what it did (does?), put it on the
deprecation schedule, and rip out a redundant function.

Fixes: 9669f51de5c0 ("xfs: consolidate the eofblocks and cowblocks workers")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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