[PATCH RFC] f2fs: fix to use spinlock to avoid page.private update race

From: Chao Yu
Date: Mon Apr 10 2023 - 05:39:27 EST


There may be subtle race condition, make PagePrivate and page_private
being inconsistent, result in decreasing page count incorrectly,
introduce a per-inode spinlock to avoid such condition.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
fs/f2fs/super.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index c378aedcadea..6b31bef5853e 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -856,6 +856,8 @@ struct f2fs_inode_info {

unsigned int atomic_write_cnt;
loff_t original_i_size; /* original i_size before atomic write */
+
+ spinlock_t private_lock; /* protect page->private */
};

static inline void get_read_extent_info(struct extent_info *ext,
@@ -1413,21 +1415,28 @@ static inline bool page_private_##name(struct page *page) \
test_bit(PAGE_PRIVATE_##flagname, &page_private(page)); \
}

+static inline struct f2fs_inode_info *F2FS_I(struct inode *inode);
#define PAGE_PRIVATE_SET_FUNC(name, flagname) \
static inline void set_page_private_##name(struct page *page) \
{ \
+ unsigned long flags; \
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&F2FS_I(page->mapping->host)->private_lock, flags); \
if (!PagePrivate(page)) \
attach_page_private(page, (void *)page->private); \
set_bit(PAGE_PRIVATE_NOT_POINTER, &page_private(page)); \
set_bit(PAGE_PRIVATE_##flagname, &page_private(page)); \
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&F2FS_I(page->mapping->host)->private_lock, flags); \
}

#define PAGE_PRIVATE_CLEAR_FUNC(name, flagname) \
static inline void clear_page_private_##name(struct page *page) \
{ \
+ unsigned long flags; \
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&F2FS_I(page->mapping->host)->private_lock, flags); \
clear_bit(PAGE_PRIVATE_##flagname, &page_private(page)); \
- if (page_private(page) == BIT(PAGE_PRIVATE_NOT_POINTER)) \
+ if (page_private(page) == (BIT(PAGE_PRIVATE_NOT_POINTER))) \
detach_page_private(page); \
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&F2FS_I(page->mapping->host)->private_lock, flags); \
}

PAGE_PRIVATE_GET_FUNC(nonpointer, NOT_POINTER);
@@ -1456,17 +1465,25 @@ static inline unsigned long get_page_private_data(struct page *page)

static inline void set_page_private_data(struct page *page, unsigned long data)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&F2FS_I(page->mapping->host)->private_lock, flags);
if (!PagePrivate(page))
attach_page_private(page, 0);
set_bit(PAGE_PRIVATE_NOT_POINTER, &page_private(page));
page_private(page) |= data << PAGE_PRIVATE_MAX;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&F2FS_I(page->mapping->host)->private_lock, flags);
}

static inline void clear_page_private_data(struct page *page)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&F2FS_I(page->mapping->host)->private_lock, flags);
page_private(page) &= GENMASK(PAGE_PRIVATE_MAX - 1, 0);
if (page_private(page) == BIT(PAGE_PRIVATE_NOT_POINTER))
detach_page_private(page);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&F2FS_I(page->mapping->host)->private_lock, flags);
}

/* For compression */
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index a1b570a5e50f..555424dd85fd 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -1419,6 +1419,8 @@ static struct inode *f2fs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
init_f2fs_rwsem(&fi->i_gc_rwsem[WRITE]);
init_f2fs_rwsem(&fi->i_xattr_sem);

+ spin_lock_init(&fi->private_lock);
+
/* Will be used by directory only */
fi->i_dir_level = F2FS_SB(sb)->dir_level;

--
2.25.1