On 10/6/19 4:30 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 11:37:46AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 08:05:42AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 10/3/19 8:01 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3 Oct 2019, at 4:41, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 04:40:22PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>>>>> [cc linux-fsdevel, linux-block, tejun ]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 06:52:47PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone /else/ see this crash in generic/299 on a V4 filesystem
>>>>>>> (tho
>>>>>>> afaict V5 configs crash too) and a 5.4-rc1 kernel? It seems to pop
>>>>>>> up
>>>>>>> on generic/299 though only 80% of the time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Just a quick glance, I guess there could is a race between (complete
>>>>> guess):
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 160 static void finish_writeback_work(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
>>>>> 161 struct wb_writeback_work *work)
>>>>> 162 {
>>>>> 163 struct wb_completion *done = work->done;
>>>>> 164
>>>>> 165 if (work->auto_free)
>>>>> 166 kfree(work);
>>>>> 167 if (done && atomic_dec_and_test(&done->cnt))
>>>>>
>>>>> ^^^ here
>>>>>
>>>>> 168 wake_up_all(done->waitq);
>>>>> 169 }
>>>>>
>>>>> since new wake_up_all(done->waitq); is completely on-stack,
>>>>> if (done && atomic_dec_and_test(&done->cnt))
>>>>> - wake_up_all(&wb->bdi->wb_waitq);
>>>>> + wake_up_all(done->waitq);
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> which could cause use after free if on-stack wb_completion is gone...
>>>>> (however previous wb->bdi is solid since it is not on-stack)
>>>>>
>>>>> see generic on-stack completion which takes a wait_queue spin_lock
>>>>> between
>>>>> test and wake_up...
>>>>>
>>>>> If I am wrong, ignore me, hmm...
>>>>
>>>> It's a good guess ;) Jens should have this queued up already:
>>>>
>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/23/972
>>>
>>> Yes indeed, it'll go out today or tomorrow for -rc2.
>>
>> The patch fixes the problems I've been seeing, so:
>> Tested-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
>>
>> Thank you for taking care of this. :)
>
> Hmm, I don't see this patch in -rc2; did it not go out in time, or were
> there further complications?
Andrew had it queued up, apparently my memory was bad. It's in now.
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Jens Axboe
