On 18.04.2018 23:47, David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:41:54AM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
>> When the delayed refs for a head are all run, eventually
>> cleanup_ref_head is called which (in case of deletion) obtains a
>> reference for the relevant btrfs_space_info struct by querying the bg
>> for the range. This is problematic because when the last extent of a
>> bg is deleted a race window emerges between removal of that bg and the
>> subsequent invocation of cleanup_ref_head. This can result in cache being 
>> null
>> and either a null pointer dereference or assertion failure.
>>
>>      task: ffff8d04d31ed080 task.stack: ffff9e5dc10cc000
>>      RIP: 0010:assfail.constprop.78+0x18/0x1a [btrfs]
>>      RSP: 0018:ffff9e5dc10cfbe8 EFLAGS: 00010292
>>      RAX: 0000000000000044 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
>>      RDX: ffff8d04ffc1f868 RSI: ffff8d04ffc178c8 RDI: ffff8d04ffc178c8
>>      RBP: ffff8d04d29e5ea0 R08: 00000000000001f0 R09: 0000000000000001
>>      R10: ffff9e5dc0507d58 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8d04d29e5ea0
>>      R13: ffff8d04d29e5f08 R14: ffff8d04efe29b40 R15: ffff8d04efe203e0
>>      FS:  00007fbf58ead500(0000) GS:ffff8d04ffc00000(0000) 
>> knlGS:0000000000000000
>>      CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>>      CR2: 00007fe6c6975648 CR3: 0000000013b2a000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
>>      DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>>      DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>>      Call Trace:
>>       __btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x10e7/0x12c0 [btrfs]
>>       btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x68/0x250 [btrfs]
>>       btrfs_should_end_transaction+0x42/0x60 [btrfs]
>>       btrfs_truncate_inode_items+0xaac/0xfc0 [btrfs]
>>       btrfs_evict_inode+0x4c6/0x5c0 [btrfs]
>>       evict+0xc6/0x190
>>       do_unlinkat+0x19c/0x300
>>       do_syscall_64+0x74/0x140
>>       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
>>      RIP: 0033:0x7fbf589c57a7
>>
>> To fix this, introduce a new flag "is_system" to head_ref structs,
>> which is populated at insertion time. This allows to decouple the
>> querying for the spaceinfo from querying the possibly deleted bg.
>>
>> Fixes: d7eae3403f46 ("Btrfs: rework delayed ref total_bytes_pinned 
>> accounting")
>> Suggested-by: Omar Sandoval <osan...@osandov.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nbori...@suse.com>
> 
> Added to next, thanks.
> 
>> @@ -550,8 +550,10 @@ add_delayed_ref_head(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
>>                   struct btrfs_delayed_ref_head *head_ref,
>>                   struct btrfs_qgroup_extent_record *qrecord,
>>                   u64 bytenr, u64 num_bytes, u64 ref_root, u64 reserved,
>> -                 int action, int is_data, int *qrecord_inserted_ret,
>> +                 int action, int is_data, int is_system,
>> +                 int *qrecord_inserted_ret,
>>                   int *old_ref_mod, int *new_ref_mod)
> 
> At some point we might want to peel of a few arguments of that function.
> It now has 14.  The fs_info/trans should work and the
> action/is_data/is_system could be merged to a bitmask.

Yes, I sent a series which splits the delayed ref initialisation +
addition. It will conflicts with this patch but I intend to rebase. I'm
talking about [PATCH 0/8] Delayed refs cleanups/streamlining

> 
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