btrfs: fix race between swap file activation and snapshot creation
When creating a snapshot we check if the current number of swap files, in the root, is non-zero, and if it is, we error out and warn that we can not create the snapshot because there are active swap files. However this is racy because when a task started activation of a swap file, another task might have started already snapshot creation and might have seen the counter for the number of swap files as zero. This means that after the swap file is activated we may end up with a snapshot of the same root successfully created, and therefore when the first write to the swap file happens it has to fall back into COW mode, which should never happen for active swap files. Basically what can happen is: 1) Task A starts snapshot creation and enters ioctl.c:create_snapshot(). There it sees that root->nr_swapfiles has a value of 0 so it continues; 2) Task B enters btrfs_swap_activate(). It is not aware that another task started snapshot creation but it did not finish yet. It increments root->nr_swapfiles from 0 to 1; 3) Task B checks that the file meets all requirements to be an active swap file - it has NOCOW set, there are no snapshots for the inode's root at the moment, no file holes, no reflinked extents, etc; 4) Task B returns success and now the file is an active swap file; 5) Task A commits the transaction to create the snapshot and finishes. The swap file's extents are now shared between the original root and the snapshot; 6) A write into an extent of the swap file is attempted - there is a snapshot of the file's root, so we fall back to COW mode and therefore the physical location of the extent changes on disk. So fix this by taking the snapshot lock during swap file activation before locking the extent range, as that is the order in which we lock these during buffered writes. Fixes: ed46ff3d ("Btrfs: support swap files") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+ Reviewed-by:Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by:
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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