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Commit 3acd4850 authored by Christophe Leroy's avatar Christophe Leroy Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: fix allocation of free space cache v1 bitmap pages



Various notifications of type "BUG kmalloc-4096 () : Redzone
overwritten" have been observed recently in various parts of the kernel.
After some time, it has been made a relation with the use of BTRFS
filesystem and with SLUB_DEBUG turned on.

[   22.809700] BUG kmalloc-4096 (Tainted: G        W        ): Redzone overwritten

[   22.810286] INFO: 0xbe1a5921-0xfbfc06cd. First byte 0x0 instead of 0xcc
[   22.810866] INFO: Allocated in __load_free_space_cache+0x588/0x780 [btrfs] age=22 cpu=0 pid=224
[   22.811193] 	__slab_alloc.constprop.26+0x44/0x70
[   22.811345] 	kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xf0/0x2ec
[   22.811588] 	__load_free_space_cache+0x588/0x780 [btrfs]
[   22.811848] 	load_free_space_cache+0xf4/0x1b0 [btrfs]
[   22.812090] 	cache_block_group+0x1d0/0x3d0 [btrfs]
[   22.812321] 	find_free_extent+0x680/0x12a4 [btrfs]
[   22.812549] 	btrfs_reserve_extent+0xec/0x220 [btrfs]
[   22.812785] 	btrfs_alloc_tree_block+0x178/0x5f4 [btrfs]
[   22.813032] 	__btrfs_cow_block+0x150/0x5d4 [btrfs]
[   22.813262] 	btrfs_cow_block+0x194/0x298 [btrfs]
[   22.813484] 	commit_cowonly_roots+0x44/0x294 [btrfs]
[   22.813718] 	btrfs_commit_transaction+0x63c/0xc0c [btrfs]
[   22.813973] 	close_ctree+0xf8/0x2a4 [btrfs]
[   22.814107] 	generic_shutdown_super+0x80/0x110
[   22.814250] 	kill_anon_super+0x18/0x30
[   22.814437] 	btrfs_kill_super+0x18/0x90 [btrfs]
[   22.814590] INFO: Freed in proc_cgroup_show+0xc0/0x248 age=41 cpu=0 pid=83
[   22.814841] 	proc_cgroup_show+0xc0/0x248
[   22.814967] 	proc_single_show+0x54/0x98
[   22.815086] 	seq_read+0x278/0x45c
[   22.815190] 	__vfs_read+0x28/0x17c
[   22.815289] 	vfs_read+0xa8/0x14c
[   22.815381] 	ksys_read+0x50/0x94
[   22.815475] 	ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38

Commit 69d24804 ("btrfs: use copy_page for copying pages instead of
memcpy") changed the way bitmap blocks are copied. But allthough bitmaps
have the size of a page, they were allocated with kzalloc().

Most of the time, kzalloc() allocates aligned blocks of memory, so
copy_page() can be used. But when some debug options like SLAB_DEBUG are
activated, kzalloc() may return unaligned pointer.

On powerpc, memcpy(), copy_page() and other copying functions use
'dcbz' instruction which provides an entire zeroed cacheline to avoid
memory read when the intention is to overwrite a full line. Functions
like memcpy() are writen to care about partial cachelines at the start
and end of the destination, but copy_page() assumes it gets pages. As
pages are naturally cache aligned, copy_page() doesn't care about
partial lines. This means that when copy_page() is called with a
misaligned pointer, a few leading bytes are zeroed.

To fix it, allocate bitmaps through kmem_cache instead of using kzalloc()
The cache pool is created with PAGE_SIZE alignment constraint.

Reported-by: default avatarErhard F. <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204371


Fixes: 69d24804 ("btrfs: use copy_page for copying pages instead of memcpy")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19+
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ rename to btrfs_free_space_bitmap ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent 62fdaa52
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