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<entry>
<title>Revert "Btrfs: race free update of commit root for ro snapshots"</title>
<updated>2014-10-30T16:43:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Mason</name>
</author>
<published>2014-10-15T20:50:56Z</published>
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commit d37973082b453ba6b89ec07eb7b84305895d35e1 upstream.

This reverts commit 9c3b306e1c9e6be4be09e99a8fe2227d1005effc.

Switching only one commit root during a transaction is wrong because it
leads the fs into an inconsistent state. All commit roots should be
switched at once, at transaction commit time, otherwise backref walking
can often miss important references that were only accessible through
the old commit root.  Plus, the root item for the snapshot's root wasn't
getting updated and preventing the next transaction commit to do it.

This made several users get into random corruption issues after creation
of readonly snapshots.

A regression test for xfstests will follow soon.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.17
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana &lt;fdmanana@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: Fix the wrong condition judgment about subset extent map</title>
<updated>2014-10-30T16:43:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Qu Wenruo</name>
</author>
<published>2014-09-22T01:13:03Z</published>
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commit 32be3a1ac6d09576c57063c6c350ca36eaebdbd3 upstream.

Previous commit: btrfs: Fix and enhance merge_extent_mapping() to insert
best fitted extent map
is using wrong condition to judgement whether the range is a subset of a
existing extent map.

This may cause bug in btrfs no-holes mode.

This patch will correct the judgment and fix the bug.

Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo &lt;quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Btrfs: try not to ENOSPC on log replay</title>
<updated>2014-10-30T16:43:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
</author>
<published>2014-09-18T15:30:44Z</published>
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commit 1d52c78afbbf80b58299e076a159617d6b42fe3c upstream.

When doing log replay we may have to update inodes, which traditionally goes
through our delayed inode stuff.  This will try to move space over from the
trans handle, but we don't reserve space in our trans handle on replay since we
don't know how much we will need, so instead we try to flush.  But because we
have a trans handle open we won't flush anything, so if we are out of reserve
space we will simply return ENOSPC.  Since we know that if an operation made it
into the log then we definitely had space before the box bought the farm then we
don't need to worry about doing this space reservation.  Use the
fs_info-&gt;log_root_recovering flag to skip the delayed inode stuff and update the
item directly.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>btrfs: Fix and enhance merge_extent_mapping() to insert best fitted extent map</title>
<updated>2014-10-30T16:43:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Qu Wenruo</name>
</author>
<published>2014-09-17T03:53:35Z</published>
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commit e6c4efd87ab04e5ead363f24e6ac35ed3506d401 upstream.

The following commit enhanced the merge_extent_mapping() to reduce
fragment in extent map tree, but it can't handle case which existing
lies before map_start:
51f39 btrfs: Use right extent length when inserting overlap extent map.

[BUG]
When existing extent map's start is before map_start,
the em-&gt;len will be minus, which will corrupt the extent map and fail to
insert the new extent map.
This will happen when someone get a large extent map, but when it is
going to insert it into extent map tree, some one has already commit
some write and split the huge extent into small parts.

[REPRODUCER]
It is very easy to tiger using filebench with randomrw personality.
It is about 100% to reproduce when using 8G preallocated file in 60s
randonrw test.

[FIX]
This patch can now handle any existing extent position.
Since it does not directly use existing-&gt;start, now it will find the
previous and next extent around map_start.
So the old existing-&gt;start &lt; map_start bug will never happen again.

[ENHANCE]
This patch will insert the best fitted extent map into extent map tree,
other than the oldest [map_start, map_start + sectorsize) or the
relatively newer but not perfect [map_start, existing-&gt;start).

The patch will first search existing extent that does not intersects with
the desired map range [map_start, map_start + len).
The existing extent will be either before or behind map_start, and based
on the existing extent, we can find out the previous and next extent
around map_start.

So the best fitted extent would be [prev-&gt;end, next-&gt;start).
For prev or next is not found, em-&gt;start would be prev-&gt;end and em-&gt;end
wold be next-&gt;start.

With this patch, the fragment in extent map tree should be reduced much
more than the 51f39 commit and reduce an unneeded extent map tree search.

Reported-by: Tsutomu Itoh &lt;t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo &lt;quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs</title>
<updated>2014-09-12T18:53:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2014-09-12T18:53:30Z</published>
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Pull btrfs fixes from Chris Mason:
 "Filipe is doing a careful pass through fsync problems, and these are
  the fixes so far.  I'll have one more for rc6 that we're still
  testing.

  My big commit is fixing up some inode hash races that Al Viro found
  (thanks Al)"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
  Btrfs: use insert_inode_locked4 for inode creation
  Btrfs: fix fsync data loss after a ranged fsync
  Btrfs: kfree()ing ERR_PTRs
  Btrfs: fix crash while doing a ranged fsync
  Btrfs: fix corruption after write/fsync failure + fsync + log recovery
  Btrfs: fix autodefrag with compression
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<entry>
<title>Btrfs: use insert_inode_locked4 for inode creation</title>
<updated>2014-09-08T20:56:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Mason</name>
</author>
<published>2014-09-08T20:08:51Z</published>
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Btrfs was inserting inodes into the hash table before we had fully
set the inode up on disk.  This leaves us open to rare races that allow
two different inodes in memory for the same [root, inode] pair.

This patch fixes things by using insert_inode_locked4 to insert an I_NEW
inode and unlock_new_inode when we're ready for the rest of the kernel
to use the inode.

It also makes sure to init the operations pointers on the inode before
going into the error handling paths.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Btrfs: fix crash while doing a ranged fsync</title>
<updated>2014-09-02T23:46:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Filipe Manana</name>
</author>
<published>2014-08-29T19:54:26Z</published>
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While doing a ranged fsync, that is, one whose range doesn't cover the
whole possible file range (0 to LLONG_MAX), we can crash under certain
circumstances with a trace like the following:

[41074.641913] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
(...)
[41074.642692] CPU: 0 PID: 24580 Comm: fsx Not tainted 3.16.0-fdm-btrfs-next-45+ #1
(...)
[41074.643886] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa01ecc99&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffffa01ecc99&gt;] btrfs_ordered_update_i_size+0x279/0x2b0 [btrfs]
(...)
[41074.644919] Stack:
(...)
[41074.644919] Call Trace:
[41074.644919]  [&lt;ffffffffa01db531&gt;] btrfs_truncate_inode_items+0x3f1/0xa10 [btrfs]
[41074.644919]  [&lt;ffffffffa01eb54f&gt;] ? btrfs_get_logged_extents+0x4f/0x80 [btrfs]
[41074.644919]  [&lt;ffffffffa02137a9&gt;] btrfs_log_inode+0x2f9/0x970 [btrfs]
[41074.644919]  [&lt;ffffffff81090875&gt;] ? sched_clock_local+0x25/0xa0
[41074.644919]  [&lt;ffffffff8164a55e&gt;] ? mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10
[41074.644919]  [&lt;ffffffff810af51d&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[41074.644919]  [&lt;ffffffffa0214b4f&gt;] btrfs_log_inode_parent+0x1ef/0x560 [btrfs]
[41074.644919]  [&lt;ffffffff811d0c55&gt;] ? dget_parent+0x5/0x180
[41074.644919]  [&lt;ffffffffa0215d11&gt;] btrfs_log_dentry_safe+0x51/0x80 [btrfs]
[41074.644919]  [&lt;ffffffffa01e2d1a&gt;] btrfs_sync_file+0x1ba/0x3e0 [btrfs]
[41074.644919]  [&lt;ffffffff811eda6b&gt;] vfs_fsync_range+0x1b/0x30
(...)

The necessary conditions that lead to such crash are:

* an incremental fsync (when the inode doesn't have the
  BTRFS_INODE_NEEDS_FULL_SYNC flag set) happened for our file and it logged
  a file extent item ending at offset X;

* the file got the flag BTRFS_INODE_NEEDS_FULL_SYNC set in its inode, due
  to a file truncate operation that reduces the file to a size smaller
  than X;

* a ranged fsync call happens (via an msync for example), with a range that
  doesn't cover the whole file and the end of this range, lets call it Y, is
  smaller than X;

* btrfs_log_inode, sees the flag BTRFS_INODE_NEEDS_FULL_SYNC set and
  calls btrfs_truncate_inode_items() to remove all items from the log
  tree that are associated with our file;

* btrfs_truncate_inode_items() removes all of the inode's items, and the lowest
  file extent item it removed is the one ending at offset X, where X &gt; 0 and
  X &gt; Y - before returning, it calls btrfs_ordered_update_i_size() with an offset
  parameter set to X;

* btrfs_ordered_update_i_size() sees that X is greater then the current ordered
  size (btrfs_inode's disk_i_size) and then it assumes there can't be any ongoing
  ordered operation with a range covering the offset X, calling a BUG_ON() if
  such ordered operation exists. This assumption is made because the disk_i_size
  is only increased after the corresponding file extent item is added to the
  btree (btrfs_finish_ordered_io);

* But because our fsync covers only a limited range, such an ordered extent might
  exist, and our fsync callback (btrfs_sync_file) doesn't wait for such ordered
  extent to finish when calling btrfs_wait_ordered_range();

And then by the time btrfs_ordered_update_i_size() is called, via:

   btrfs_sync_file() -&gt;
       btrfs_log_dentry_safe() -&gt;
           btrfs_log_inode_parent() -&gt;
               btrfs_log_inode() -&gt;
                   btrfs_truncate_inode_items() -&gt;
                       btrfs_ordered_update_i_size()

We hit the BUG_ON(), which could never happen if the fsync range covered the whole
possible file range (0 to LLONG_MAX), as we would wait for all ordered extents to
finish before calling btrfs_truncate_inode_items().

So just don't call btrfs_ordered_update_i_size() if we're removing the inode's items
from a log tree, which isn't supposed to change the in memory inode's disk_i_size.

Issue found while running xfstests/generic/127 (happens very rarely for me), more
specifically via the fsx calls that use memory mapped IO (and issue msync calls).

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana &lt;fdmanana@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Btrfs: fix corruption after write/fsync failure + fsync + log recovery</title>
<updated>2014-09-02T23:46:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Filipe Manana</name>
</author>
<published>2014-08-25T09:43:00Z</published>
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While writing to a file, in inode.c:cow_file_range() (and same applies to
submit_compressed_extents()), after reserving an extent for the file data,
we create a new extent map for the written range and insert it into the
extent map cache. After that, we create an ordered operation, but if it
fails (due to a transient/temporary-ENOMEM), we return without dropping
that extent map, which points to a reserved extent that is freed when we
return. A subsequent incremental fsync (when the btrfs inode doesn't have
the flag BTRFS_INODE_NEEDS_FULL_SYNC) considers this extent map valid and
logs a file extent item based on that extent map, which points to a disk
extent that doesn't contain valid data - it was freed by us earlier, at this
point it might contain any random/garbage data.

Therefore, if we reach an error condition when cowing a file range after
we added the new extent map to the cache, drop it from the cache before
returning.

Some sequence of steps that lead to this:

    $ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdd
    $ mount -o commit=9999 /dev/sdd /mnt
    $ cd /mnt

    $ xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0x01 -b 4096 0 4096" -c "fsync" foo
    $ xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0x02 -b 4096 4096 4096"
    $ sync

    $ od -t x1 foo
    0000000 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
    *
    0010000 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02
    *
    0020000

    $ xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xa1 -b 4096 0 4096" foo

    # Now this write + fsync fail with -ENOMEM, which was returned by
    # btrfs_add_ordered_extent() in inode.c:cow_file_range().
    $ xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xff -b 4096 4096 4096" foo
    $ xfs_io -c "fsync" foo
    fsync: Cannot allocate memory

    # Now do a new write + fsync, which will succeed. Our previous
    # -ENOMEM was a transient/temporary error.
    $ xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xee -b 4096 16384 4096" foo
    $ xfs_io -c "fsync" foo

    # Our file content (in page cache) is now:
    $ od -t x1 foo
    0000000 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1 a1
    *
    0010000 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
    *
    0020000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    *
    0040000 ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee
    *
    0050000

    # Now reboot the machine, and mount the fs, so that fsync log replay
    # takes place.

    # The file content is now weird, in particular the first 8Kb, which
    # do not match our data before nor after the sync command above.
    $ od -t x1 foo
    0000000 ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee
    *
    0010000 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
    *
    0020000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    *
    0040000 ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee
    *
    0050000

    # In fact these first 4Kb are a duplicate of the last 4kb block.
    # The last write got an extent map/file extent item that points to
    # the same disk extent that we got in the write+fsync that failed
    # with the -ENOMEM error. btrfs-debug-tree and btrfsck allow us to
    # verify that:

    $ btrfs-debug-tree /dev/sdd
    (...)
	item 6 key (257 EXTENT_DATA 0) itemoff 15819 itemsize 53
		extent data disk byte 12582912 nr 8192
		extent data offset 0 nr 8192 ram 8192
	item 7 key (257 EXTENT_DATA 8192) itemoff 15766 itemsize 53
		extent data disk byte 0 nr 0
		extent data offset 0 nr 8192 ram 8192
	item 8 key (257 EXTENT_DATA 16384) itemoff 15713 itemsize 53
		extent data disk byte 12582912 nr 4096
		extent data offset 0 nr 4096 ram 4096

    $ umount /dev/sdd
    $ btrfsck /dev/sdd
    Checking filesystem on /dev/sdd
    UUID: db5e60e1-050d-41e6-8c7f-3d742dea5d8f
    checking extents
    extent item 12582912 has multiple extent items
    ref mismatch on [12582912 4096] extent item 1, found 2
    Backref bytes do not match extent backref, bytenr=12582912, ref bytes=4096, backref bytes=8192
    backpointer mismatch on [12582912 4096]
    Errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation
    checking free space cache
    checking fs roots
    root 5 inode 257 errors 1000, some csum missing
    found 131074 bytes used err is 1
    total csum bytes: 4
    total tree bytes: 131072
    total fs tree bytes: 32768
    total extent tree bytes: 16384
    btree space waste bytes: 123404
    file data blocks allocated: 274432
     referenced 274432
    Btrfs v3.14.1-96-gcc7fd5a-dirty

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana &lt;fdmanana@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs</title>
<updated>2014-08-27T16:14:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2014-08-27T16:14:17Z</published>
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Pull btrfs fixes from Chris Mason:
 "The biggest of these comes from Liu Bo, who tracked down a hang we've
  been hitting since moving to kernel workqueues (it's a btrfs bug, not
  in the generic code).  His patch needs backporting to 3.16 and 3.15
  stable, which I'll send once this is in.

  Otherwise these are assorted fixes.  Most were integrated last week
  during KS, but I wanted to give everyone the chance to test the
  result, so I waited for rc2 to come out before sending"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: (24 commits)
  Btrfs: fix task hang under heavy compressed write
  Btrfs: fix filemap_flush call in btrfs_file_release
  Btrfs: fix crash on endio of reading corrupted block
  btrfs: fix leak in qgroup_subtree_accounting() error path
  btrfs: Use right extent length when inserting overlap extent map.
  Btrfs: clone, don't create invalid hole extent map
  Btrfs: don't monopolize a core when evicting inode
  Btrfs: fix hole detection during file fsync
  Btrfs: ensure tmpfile inode is always persisted with link count of 0
  Btrfs: race free update of commit root for ro snapshots
  Btrfs: fix regression of btrfs device replace
  Btrfs: don't consider the missing device when allocating new chunks
  Btrfs: Fix wrong device size when we are resizing the device
  Btrfs: don't write any data into a readonly device when scrub
  Btrfs: Fix the problem that the replace destroys the seed filesystem
  btrfs: Return right extent when fiemap gives unaligned offset and len.
  Btrfs: fix wrong extent mapping for DirectIO
  Btrfs: fix wrong write range for filemap_fdatawrite_range()
  Btrfs: fix wrong missing device counter decrease
  Btrfs: fix unzeroed members in fs_devices when creating a fs from seed fs
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Btrfs: fix task hang under heavy compressed write</title>
<updated>2014-08-24T14:17:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Liu Bo</name>
</author>
<published>2014-08-15T15:36:53Z</published>
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This has been reported and discussed for a long time, and this hang occurs in
both 3.15 and 3.16.

Btrfs now migrates to use kernel workqueue, but it introduces this hang problem.

Btrfs has a kind of work queued as an ordered way, which means that its
ordered_func() must be processed in the way of FIFO, so it usually looks like --

normal_work_helper(arg)
    work = container_of(arg, struct btrfs_work, normal_work);

    work-&gt;func() &lt;---- (we name it work X)
    for ordered_work in wq-&gt;ordered_list
            ordered_work-&gt;ordered_func()
            ordered_work-&gt;ordered_free()

The hang is a rare case, first when we find free space, we get an uncached block
group, then we go to read its free space cache inode for free space information,
so it will

file a readahead request
    btrfs_readpages()
         for page that is not in page cache
                __do_readpage()
                     submit_extent_page()
                           btrfs_submit_bio_hook()
                                 btrfs_bio_wq_end_io()
                                 submit_bio()
                                 end_workqueue_bio() &lt;--(ret by the 1st endio)
                                      queue a work(named work Y) for the 2nd
                                      also the real endio()

So the hang occurs when work Y's work_struct and work X's work_struct happens
to share the same address.

A bit more explanation,

A,B,C -- struct btrfs_work
arg   -- struct work_struct

kthread:
worker_thread()
    pick up a work_struct from @worklist
    process_one_work(arg)
	worker-&gt;current_work = arg;  &lt;-- arg is A-&gt;normal_work
	worker-&gt;current_func(arg)
		normal_work_helper(arg)
		     A = container_of(arg, struct btrfs_work, normal_work);

		     A-&gt;func()
		     A-&gt;ordered_func()
		     A-&gt;ordered_free()  &lt;-- A gets freed

		     B-&gt;ordered_func()
			  submit_compressed_extents()
			      find_free_extent()
				  load_free_space_inode()
				      ...   &lt;-- (the above readhead stack)
				      end_workqueue_bio()
					   btrfs_queue_work(work C)
		     B-&gt;ordered_free()

As if work A has a high priority in wq-&gt;ordered_list and there are more ordered
works queued after it, such as B-&gt;ordered_func(), its memory could have been
freed before normal_work_helper() returns, which means that kernel workqueue
code worker_thread() still has worker-&gt;current_work pointer to be work
A-&gt;normal_work's, ie. arg's address.

Meanwhile, work C is allocated after work A is freed, work C-&gt;normal_work
and work A-&gt;normal_work are likely to share the same address(I confirmed this
with ftrace output, so I'm not just guessing, it's rare though).

When another kthread picks up work C-&gt;normal_work to process, and finds our
kthread is processing it(see find_worker_executing_work()), it'll think
work C as a collision and skip then, which ends up nobody processing work C.

So the situation is that our kthread is waiting forever on work C.

Besides, there're other cases that can lead to deadlock, but the real problem
is that all btrfs workqueue shares one work-&gt;func, -- normal_work_helper,
so this makes each workqueue to have its own helper function, but only a
wraper pf normal_work_helper.

With this patch, I no long hit the above hang.

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo &lt;bo.li.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
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