On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:53 AM Josef Bacik <jo...@toxicpanda.com> wrote:
>
> While testing 5.2 we ran into the following panic
>
> [52238.017028] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000001
> [52238.105608] RIP: 0010:drop_buffers+0x3d/0x150
> [52238.304051] Call Trace:
> [52238.308958] try_to_free_buffers+0x15b/0x1b0
> [52238.317503] shrink_page_list+0x1164/0x1780
> [52238.325877] shrink_inactive_list+0x18f/0x3b0
> [52238.334596] shrink_node_memcg+0x23e/0x7d0
> [52238.342790] ? do_shrink_slab+0x4f/0x290
> [52238.350648] shrink_node+0xce/0x4a0
> [52238.357628] balance_pgdat+0x2c7/0x510
> [52238.365135] kswapd+0x216/0x3e0
> [52238.371425] ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
> [52238.378412] ? balance_pgdat+0x510/0x510
> [52238.386265] kthread+0x111/0x130
> [52238.392727] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x60/0x60
> [52238.401782] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
>
> The page we were trying to drop had a page->private, but had no
> page->mapping and so called drop_buffers, assuming that we had a
> buffer_head on the page, and then panic'ed trying to deref 1, which is
> our page->private for data pages.
>
> This is happening because we're truncating the free space cache while
> we're trying to load the free space cache. This isn't supposed to
> happen, and I'll fix that in a followup patch. However we still
> shouldn't allow those sort of mistakes to result in messing with pages
> that do not belong to us. So add the page->mapping check to verify that
> we still own this page after dropping and re-acquiring the page lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jo...@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdman...@suse.com>
Looks good, thanks.
> ---
> fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
> index d54dcd0ab230..d86ada9c3c54 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
> @@ -385,6 +385,12 @@ static int io_ctl_prepare_pages(struct btrfs_io_ctl
> *io_ctl, struct inode *inode
> if (uptodate && !PageUptodate(page)) {
> btrfs_readpage(NULL, page);
> lock_page(page);
> + if (page->mapping != inode->i_mapping) {
> + btrfs_err(BTRFS_I(inode)->root->fs_info,
> + "free space cache page truncated");
> + io_ctl_drop_pages(io_ctl);
> + return -EIO;
> + }
> if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
> btrfs_err(BTRFS_I(inode)->root->fs_info,
> "error reading free space cache");
> --
> 2.21.0
>
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