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:Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191231181149.47619-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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