Commit 547c556f authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: fix deadlock allocating crypto bounce page from mempool



ext4_writepages() on an encrypted file has to encrypt the data, but it
can't modify the pagecache pages in-place, so it encrypts the data into
bounce pages and writes those instead.  All bounce pages are allocated
from a mempool using GFP_NOFS.

This is not correct use of a mempool, and it can deadlock.  This is
because GFP_NOFS includes __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, which enables the "never
fail" mode for mempool_alloc() where a failed allocation will fall back
to waiting for one of the preallocated elements in the pool.

But since this mode is used for all a bio's pages and not just the
first, it can deadlock waiting for pages already in the bio to be freed.

This deadlock can be reproduced by patching mempool_alloc() to pretend
that pool->alloc() always fails (so that it always falls back to the
preallocations), and then creating an encrypted file of size > 128 KiB.

Fix it by only using GFP_NOFS for the first page in the bio.  For
subsequent pages just use GFP_NOWAIT, and if any of those fail, just
submit the bio and start a new one.

This will need to be fixed in f2fs too, but that's less straightforward.

Fixes: c9af28fd ("ext4 crypto: don't let data integrity writebacks fail with ENOMEM")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191231181149.47619-1-ebiggers@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 8f27fd0a
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@@ -512,17 +512,26 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
		gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_NOFS;
		unsigned int enc_bytes = round_up(len, i_blocksize(inode));

		/*
		 * Since bounce page allocation uses a mempool, we can only use
		 * a waiting mask (i.e. request guaranteed allocation) on the
		 * first page of the bio.  Otherwise it can deadlock.
		 */
		if (io->io_bio)
			gfp_flags = GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
	retry_encrypt:
		bounce_page = fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks(page, enc_bytes,
							       0, gfp_flags);
		if (IS_ERR(bounce_page)) {
			ret = PTR_ERR(bounce_page);
			if (ret == -ENOMEM && wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) {
				if (io->io_bio) {
			if (ret == -ENOMEM &&
			    (io->io_bio || wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)) {
				gfp_flags = GFP_NOFS;
				if (io->io_bio)
					ext4_io_submit(io);
					congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
				}
				else
					gfp_flags |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
				congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
				goto retry_encrypt;
			}