Filipe reported a hang when we have errors on btrfs. This turned out to
be a side-effect of my fix c2e3930529 ("btrfs: clear extent buffer
uptodate when we fail to write it") which made it so we clear
EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE on an eb when we fail to write it out.
Below is a paste of Filipe's analysis he got from using drgn to debug
the hang
"""
btree readahead code calls read_extent_buffer_pages(), sets ->io_pages to
a value while writeback of all pages has not yet completed:
--> writeback for the first 3 pages finishes, we clear
EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE from eb on the first page when we get an
error.
--> at this point eb->io_pages is 1 and we cleared Uptodate bit from the
first 3 pages
--> read_extent_buffer_pages() does not see EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE() so
it continues, it's able to lock the pages since we obviously don't
hold the pages locked during writeback
--> read_extent_buffer_pages() then computes 'num_reads' as 3, and sets
eb->io_pages to 3, since only the first page does not have Uptodate
bit set at this point
--> writeback for the remaining page completes, we ended decrementing
eb->io_pages by 1, resulting in eb->io_pages == 2, and therefore
never calling end_extent_buffer_writeback(), so
EXTENT_BUFFER_WRITEBACK remains in the eb's flags
--> of course, when the read bio completes, it doesn't and shouldn't
call end_extent_buffer_writeback()
--> we should clear EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE only after all pages of
the eb finished writeback? or maybe make the read pages code
wait for writeback of all pages of the eb to complete before
checking which pages need to be read, touch ->io_pages, submit
read bio, etc
writeback bit never cleared means we can hang when aborting a
transaction, at:
btrfs_cleanup_one_transaction()
btrfs_destroy_marked_extents()
wait_on_extent_buffer_writeback()
"""
This is a problem because our writes are not synchronized with reads in
any way. We clear the UPTODATE flag and then we can easily come in and
try to read the EB while we're still waiting on other bio's to
complete.
We have two options here, we could lock all the pages, and then check to
see if eb->io_pages != 0 to know if we've already got an outstanding
write on the eb.
Or we can simply check to see if we have WRITE_ERR set on this extent
buffer. We set this bit _before_ we clear UPTODATE, so if the read gets
triggered because we aren't UPTODATE because of a write error we're
guaranteed to have WRITE_ERR set, and in this case we can simply return
-EIO. This will fix the reported hang.
Reported-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Fixes: c2e3930529 ("btrfs: clear extent buffer uptodate when we fail to write it")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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