There are several occasions where we do not update the inode's number of
used bytes atomically, resulting in a concurrent stat(2) syscall to report
a value of used blocks that does not correspond to a valid value, that is,
a value that does not match neither what we had before the operation nor
what we get after the operation completes.
In extreme cases it can result in stat(2) reporting zero used blocks, which
can cause problems for some userspace tools where they can consider a file
with a non-zero size and zero used blocks as completely sparse and skip
reading data, as reported/discussed a long time ago in some threads like
the following:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-07/msg00001.html
The cases where this can happen are the following:
-> Case 1
If we do a write (buffered or direct IO) against a file region for which
there is already an allocated extent (or multiple extents), then we have a
short time window where we can report a number of used blocks to stat(2)
that does not take into account the file region being overwritten. This
short time window happens when completing the ordered extent(s).
This happens because when we drop the extents in the write range we
decrement the inode's number of bytes and later on when we insert the new
extent(s) we increment the number of bytes in the inode, resulting in a
short time window where a stat(2) syscall can get an incorrect number of
used blocks.
If we do writes that overwrite an entire file, then we have a short time
window where we report 0 used blocks to stat(2).
Example reproducer:
$ cat reproducer-1.sh
#!/bin/bash
MNT=/mnt/sdi
DEV=/dev/sdi
stat_loop()
{
trap "wait; exit" SIGTERM
local filepath=$1
local expected=$2
local got
while :; do
got=$(stat -c %b $filepath)
if [ $got -ne $expected ]; then
echo -n "ERROR: unexpected used blocks"
echo " (got: $got expected: $expected)"
fi
done
}
mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.xfs -f $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.ext4 -F $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.f2fs -f $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.reiserfs -f $DEV > /dev/null
mount $DEV $MNT
xfs_io -f -s -c "pwrite -b 64K 0 64K" $MNT/foobar >/dev/null
expected=$(stat -c %b $MNT/foobar)
# Create a process to keep calling stat(2) on the file and see if the
# reported number of blocks used (disk space used) changes, it should
# not because we are not increasing the file size nor punching holes.
stat_loop $MNT/foobar $expected &
loop_pid=$!
for ((i = 0; i < 50000; i++)); do
xfs_io -s -c "pwrite -b 64K 0 64K" $MNT/foobar >/dev/null
done
kill $loop_pid &> /dev/null
wait
umount $DEV
$ ./reproducer-1.sh
ERROR: unexpected used blocks (got: 0 expected: 128)
ERROR: unexpected used blocks (got: 0 expected: 128)
(...)
Note that since this is a short time window where the race can happen, the
reproducer may not be able to always trigger the bug in one run, or it may
trigger it multiple times.
-> Case 2
If we do a buffered write against a file region that does not have any
allocated extents, like a hole or beyond EOF, then during ordered extent
completion we have a short time window where a concurrent stat(2) syscall
can report a number of used blocks that does not correspond to the value
before or after the write operation, a value that is actually larger than
the value after the write completes.
This happens because once we start a buffered write into an unallocated
file range we increment the inode's 'new_delalloc_bytes', to make sure
any stat(2) call gets a correct used blocks value before delalloc is
flushed and completes. However at ordered extent completion, after we
inserted the new extent, we increment the inode's number of bytes used
with the size of the new extent, and only later, when clearing the range
in the inode's iotree, we decrement the inode's 'new_delalloc_bytes'
counter with the size of the extent. So this results in a short time
window where a concurrent stat(2) syscall can report a number of used
blocks that accounts for the new extent twice.
Example reproducer:
$ cat reproducer-2.sh
#!/bin/bash
MNT=/mnt/sdi
DEV=/dev/sdi
stat_loop()
{
trap "wait; exit" SIGTERM
local filepath=$1
local expected=$2
local got
while :; do
got=$(stat -c %b $filepath)
if [ $got -ne $expected ]; then
echo -n "ERROR: unexpected used blocks"
echo " (got: $got expected: $expected)"
fi
done
}
mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.xfs -f $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.ext4 -F $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.f2fs -f $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.reiserfs -f $DEV > /dev/null
mount $DEV $MNT
touch $MNT/foobar
write_size=$((64 * 1024))
for ((i = 0; i < 16384; i++)); do
offset=$(($i * $write_size))
xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xab $offset $write_size" $MNT/foobar >/dev/null
blocks_used=$(stat -c %b $MNT/foobar)
# Fsync the file to trigger writeback and keep calling stat(2) on it
# to see if the number of blocks used changes.
stat_loop $MNT/foobar $blocks_used &
loop_pid=$!
xfs_io -c "fsync" $MNT/foobar
kill $loop_pid &> /dev/null
wait $loop_pid
done
umount $DEV
$ ./reproducer-2.sh
ERROR: unexpected used blocks (got: 265472 expected: 265344)
ERROR: unexpected used blocks (got: 284032 expected: 283904)
(...)
Note that since this is a short time window where the race can happen, the
reproducer may not be able to always trigger the bug in one run, or it may
trigger it multiple times.
-> Case 3
Another case where such problems happen is during other operations that
replace extents in a file range with other extents. Those operations are
extent cloning, deduplication and fallocate's zero range operation.
The cause of the problem is similar to the first case. When we drop the
extents from a range, we decrement the inode's number of bytes, and later
on, after inserting the new extents we increment it. Since this is not
done atomically, a concurrent stat(2) call can see and return a number of
used blocks that is smaller than it should be, does not match the number
of used blocks before or after the clone/deduplication/zero operation.
Like for the first case, when doing a clone, deduplication or zero range
operation against an entire file, we end up having a time window where we
can report 0 used blocks to a stat(2) call.
Example reproducer:
$ cat reproducer-3.sh
#!/bin/bash
MNT=/mnt/sdi
DEV=/dev/sdi
mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.xfs -f -m reflink=1 $DEV > /dev/null
mount $DEV $MNT
extent_size=$((64 * 1024))
num_extents=16384
file_size=$(($extent_size * $num_extents))
# File foo has many small extents.
xfs_io -f -s -c "pwrite -S 0xab -b $extent_size 0 $file_size" $MNT/foo \
> /dev/null
# File bar has much less extents and has exactly the same data as foo.
xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xab 0 $file_size" $MNT/bar > /dev/null
expected=$(stat -c %b $MNT/foo)
# Now deduplicate bar into foo. While the deduplication is in progres,
# the number of used blocks/file size reported by stat should not change
xfs_io -c "dedupe $MNT/bar 0 0 $file_size" $MNT/foo > /dev/null &
dedupe_pid=$!
while [ -n "$(ps -p $dedupe_pid -o pid=)" ]; do
used=$(stat -c %b $MNT/foo)
if [ $used -ne $expected ]; then
echo "Unexpected blocks used: $used (expected: $expected)"
fi
done
umount $DEV
$ ./reproducer-3.sh
Unexpected blocks used: 2076800 (expected: 2097152)
Unexpected blocks used: 2097024 (expected: 2097152)
Unexpected blocks used: 2079872 (expected: 2097152)
(...)
Note that since this is a short time window where the race can happen, the
reproducer may not be able to always trigger the bug in one run, or it may
trigger it multiple times.
So fix this by:
1) Making btrfs_drop_extents() not decrement the VFS inode's number of
bytes, and instead return the number of bytes;
2) Making any code that drops extents and adds new extents update the
inode's number of bytes atomically, while holding the btrfs inode's
spinlock, which is also used by the stat(2) callback to get the inode's
number of bytes;
3) For ranges in the inode's iotree that are marked as 'delalloc new',
corresponding to previously unallocated ranges, increment the inode's
number of bytes when clearing the 'delalloc new' bit from the range,
in the same critical section that decrements the inode's
'new_delalloc_bytes' counter, delimited by the btrfs inode's spinlock.
An alternative would be to have btrfs_getattr() wait for any IO (ordered
extents in progress) and locking the whole range (0 to (u64)-1) while it
it computes the number of blocks used. But that would mean blocking
stat(2), which is a very used syscall and expected to be fast, waiting
for writes, clone/dedupe, fallocate, page reads, fiemap, etc.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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