Re: [PATCH RFC] ext4: Validate inode pa before using preallocation blocks

From: Zhihao Cheng
Date: Mon Mar 11 2024 - 03:31:47 EST


在 2024/3/11 14:38, Zhihao Cheng 写道:
In ext4 continue & no-journal mode, physical blocks could be allocated
more than once (caused by writing extent entries failed & reclaiming
extent cache) in preallocation process, which could trigger a BUG_ON
(pa->pa_free < len) in ext4_mb_use_inode_pa().

kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:4681!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 3 PID: 97 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7
RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_use_inode_pa+0x1b6/0x1e0
Call Trace:
ext4_mb_use_preallocated.constprop.0+0x19e/0x540
ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x220/0x1f30
ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xf3c/0x2900
ext4_map_blocks+0x264/0xa40
ext4_do_writepages+0xb15/0x1400
do_writepages+0x8c/0x260
writeback_sb_inodes+0x224/0x720
wb_writeback+0xd8/0x580
wb_workfn+0x148/0x820

Details are shown as following:

0. Given a file with i_size=4096 with one mapped block
1. Write block no 1, blocks 1~3 are preallocated.
ext4_ext_map_blocks
ext4_mb_normalize_request
size = 16 * 1024
size = end - start // Allocate 3 blocks (bs = 4096)
ext4_mb_regular_allocator
ext4_mb_regular_allocator
ext4_mb_regular_allocator
ext4_mb_use_inode_pa
pa->pa_free -= len // 3 - 1 = 2
2. Extent buffer head is written failed, es cache and buffer head are
reclaimed.
3. Write blocks 1~3
ext4_ext_map_blocks
newex.ee_len = 3
ext4_ext_check_overlap // Find nothing, there should have been block 1
allocated = map->m_len // 3
ext4_mb_new_blocks
ext4_mb_use_preallocated
ext4_mb_use_inode_pa
BUG_ON(pa->pa_free < len) // 2 < 3!

Fix it by adding validation checking for inode pa. If invalid pa is
detected, stop using inode preallocation, drop invalid pa to avoid it
being used again, mark group block bitmap as corrupted to avoid allocating
from the erroneous group.

After marking group block bitmap corrupted, mpage_map_and_submit_extent returns -EFSCORRUPTED from ext4_map_blocks -> ext4_ext_map_blocks -> ext4_mb_new_blocks -> ext4_mb_regular_allocator -> ext4_mb_find_by_goal -> ext4_mb_load_buddy -> ext4_mb_init_cache -> ext4_wait_block_bitmap -> ext4_validate_block_bitmap-> EXT4_MB_GRP_BBITMAP_CORRUPT(grp).
I think the checking 'EXT4_MB_GRP_BBITMAP_CORRUPT(e4b->bd_info)' is not needed in ext4_mb_load_buddy, because all callers have checked it before using e4b. In this case(ext4_mb_regular_allocator), goal group could be skipped if it is corrupted, so ext4_mb_find_by_goal should load buddy(ext4_mb_load_buddy) without checking corrupted and then check corrupted with returning 0. But we can't delete the checking(EXT4_MB_GRP_BBITMAP_CORRUPT(grp)) directly from ext4_validate_block_bitmap, because some ext4_wait_block_bitmap callers may still need it. IOW, there are some logic pathes need the checking, but some don't need.

Above problem is independent with the problem solved by this patch, so I send out the patch.

Fetch a reproducer in Link.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218576
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
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fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 128 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 98 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)