A weird KASAN problem that Zygo reported could have been easily caught if we checked for basic things in our backref freeing code. We have two methods of freeing a backref node
- btrfs_backref_free_node: this just is kfree() essentially. - btrfs_backref_drop_node: this actually unlinks the node and cleans up everything and then calls btrfs_backref_free_node(). We should mostly be using btrfs_backref_drop_node(), to make sure the node is properly unlinked from the backref cache, and only use btrfs_backref_free_node() when we know the node isn't actually linked to the backref cache. We made a mistake here and thus got the KASAN splat. Make this style of issue easier to find by adding some ASSERT()'s to btrfs_backref_free_node() and adjusting our deletion stuff to properly init the list so we can rely on list_empty() checks working properly. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jo...@toxicpanda.com> --- fs/btrfs/backref.h | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/backref.h b/fs/btrfs/backref.h index ff705cc564a9..17abde7f794c 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/backref.h +++ b/fs/btrfs/backref.h @@ -296,6 +296,9 @@ static inline void btrfs_backref_free_node(struct btrfs_backref_cache *cache, struct btrfs_backref_node *node) { if (node) { + ASSERT(list_empty(&node->list)); + ASSERT(list_empty(&node->lower)); + ASSERT(node->eb == NULL); cache->nr_nodes--; btrfs_put_root(node->root); kfree(node); @@ -340,11 +343,11 @@ static inline void btrfs_backref_drop_node_buffer( static inline void btrfs_backref_drop_node(struct btrfs_backref_cache *tree, struct btrfs_backref_node *node) { - BUG_ON(!list_empty(&node->upper)); + ASSERT(list_empty(&node->upper)); btrfs_backref_drop_node_buffer(node); - list_del(&node->list); - list_del(&node->lower); + list_del_init(&node->list); + list_del_init(&node->lower); if (!RB_EMPTY_NODE(&node->rb_node)) rb_erase(&node->rb_node, &tree->rb_root); btrfs_backref_free_node(tree, node); -- 2.26.2