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Commit b43a9e76 authored by Roman Gushchin's avatar Roman Gushchin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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writeback, cgroup: remove wb from offline list before releasing refcnt

Boyang reported that the commit c22d70a1 ("writeback, cgroup:
release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes") causes the kernel to
crash while running xfstests generic/256 on ext4 on aarch64 and ppc64le.

  run fstests generic/256 at 2021-07-12 05:41:40
  EXT4-fs (vda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: . Quota mode: none.
  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
  Mem abort info:
     ESR = 0x96000005
     EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
     SET = 0, FnV = 0
     EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
     FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault
  Data abort info:
     ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005
     CM = 0, WnR = 0
  user pgtable: 64k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000b0502000
  [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
  Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: dm_flakey dm_snapshot dm_bufio dm_zero dm_mod loop tls rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs lockd grace fscache netfs rfkill sunrpc ext4 vfat fat mbcache jbd2 drm fuse xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64 sha1_ce virtio_blk virtio_net net_failover virtio_console failover virtio_mmio aes_neon_bs [last unloaded: scsi_debug]
  CPU: 0 PID: 408468 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Tainted: G X --------- ---  5.14.0-0.rc1.15.bx.el9.aarch64 #1
  Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  Workqueue: events_unbound cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn
  pstate: 004000c5 (nzcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
  pc : cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn+0x320/0x394
  lr : cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn+0xe0/0x394
  sp : ffff80001554fd10
  x29: ffff80001554fd10 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000001
  x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 00000000000000e0 x24: ffffd2a2fbe671a8
  x23: ffff80001554fd88 x22: ffffd2a2fbe67198 x21: ffffd2a2fc25a730
  x20: ffff210412bc3000 x19: ffff210412bc3280 x18: 0000000000000000
  x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
  x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000030 x12: 0000000000000040
  x11: ffff210481572238 x10: ffff21048157223a x9 : ffffd2a2fa276c60
  x8 : ffff210484106b60 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000007d18a
  x5 : ffff210416a86400 x4 : ffff210412bc0280 x3 : 0000000000000000
  x2 : ffff80001554fd88 x1 : ffff210412bc0280 x0 : 0000000000000003
  Call trace:
     cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn+0x320/0x394
     process_one_work+0x1f4/0x4b0
     worker_thread+0x184/0x540
     kthread+0x114/0x120
     ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
  Code: d63f0020 97f99963 17ffffa6 f8588263 (f9400061)
  ---[ end trace e250fe289272792a ]---
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception
  SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
  SMP: failed to stop secondary CPUs 0-2
  Kernel Offset: 0x52a2e9fa0000 from 0xffff800010000000
  PHYS_OFFSET: 0xfff0defca0000000
  CPU features: 0x00200251,23200840
  Memory Limit: none
  ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception ]---

The problem happens when cgwb_release_workfn() races with
cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn(): wb_tryget() in
cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn() can be called after percpu_ref_exit() is
cgwb_release_workfn(), which is basically a use-after-free error.

Fix the problem by making removing the writeback structure from the
offline list before releasing the percpu reference counter.  It will
guarantee that cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn() will not see and not
access writeback structures which are about to be released.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210716201039.3762203-1-guro@fb.com


Fixes: c22d70a1 ("writeback, cgroup: release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes")
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reported-by: default avatarBoyang Xue <bxue@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tested-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Murphy Zhou <jencce.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 79e482e9
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