On 15.05.2018 20:37, Liu Bo wrote: > If a btree block, aka. extent buffer, is not available in the extent > buffer cache, it'll be read out from the disk instead, i.e. > > btrfs_search_slot() > read_block_for_search() # hold parent and its lock, go to read child > btrfs_release_path() > read_tree_block() # read child > > Unfortunately, the parent lock got released before reading child, so > commit 5bdd3536cbbe ("Btrfs: Fix block generation verification race") had > used 0 as parent transid to read the child block. It forces > read_tree_block() not to check if parent transid is different with the > generation id of the child that it reads out from disk. > > A simple PoC is included in btrfs/124, > > 0. A two-disk raid1 btrfs, > > 1. Right after mkfs.btrfs, block A is allocated to be device tree's root. > > 2. Mount this filesystem and put it in use, after a while, device tree's > root got COW but block A hasn't been allocated/overwritten yet. > > 3. Umount it and reload the btrfs module to remove both disks from the > global @fs_devices list. > > 4. mount -odegraded dev1 and write some data, so now block A is allocated > to be a leaf in checksum tree. Note that only dev1 has the latest > metadata of this filesystem. > > 5. Umount it and mount it again normally (with both disks), since raid1 > can pick up one disk by the writer task's pid, if btrfs_search_slot() > needs to read block A, dev2 which does NOT have the latest metadata > might be read for block A, then we got a stale block A. > > 6. As parent transid is not checked, block A is marked as uptodate and > put into the extent buffer cache, so the future search won't bother > to read disk again, which means it'll make changes on this stale > one and make it dirty and flush it onto disk. > > To avoid the problem, parent transid needs to be passed to > read_tree_block(). > > In order to get a valid parent transid, we need to hold the parent's > lock until finish reading child. > > Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo....@linux.alibaba.com>
Doesn't this warrant a stable tag and Fixes: 5bdd3536cbbe ("Btrfs: Fix block generation verification race") -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html