afs: Fix deadlock between writeback and truncate

The afs filesystem has a lock[*] that it uses to serialise I/O operations
going to the server (vnode->io_lock), as the server will only perform one
modification operation at a time on any given file or directory.  This
prevents the the filesystem from filling up all the call slots to a server
with calls that aren't going to be executed in parallel anyway, thereby
allowing operations on other files to obtain slots.

  [*] Note that is probably redundant for directories at least since
      i_rwsem is used to serialise directory modifications and
      lookup/reading vs modification.  The server does allow parallel
      non-modification ops, however.

When a file truncation op completes, we truncate the in-memory copy of the
file to match - but we do it whilst still holding the io_lock, the idea
being to prevent races with other operations.

However, if writeback starts in a worker thread simultaneously with
truncation (whilst notify_change() is called with i_rwsem locked, writeback
pays it no heed), it may manage to set PG_writeback bits on the pages that
will get truncated before afs_setattr_success() manages to call
truncate_pagecache().  Truncate will then wait for those pages - whilst
still inside io_lock:

    # cat /proc/8837/stack
    [<0>] wait_on_page_bit_common+0x184/0x1e7
    [<0>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x37f/0x3eb
    [<0>] truncate_pagecache+0x3c/0x53
    [<0>] afs_setattr_success+0x4d/0x6e
    [<0>] afs_wait_for_operation+0xd8/0x169
    [<0>] afs_do_sync_operation+0x16/0x1f
    [<0>] afs_setattr+0x1fb/0x25d
    [<0>] notify_change+0x2cf/0x3c4
    [<0>] do_truncate+0x7f/0xb2
    [<0>] do_sys_ftruncate+0xd1/0x104
    [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x3a
    [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The writeback operation, however, stalls indefinitely because it needs to
get the io_lock to proceed:

    # cat /proc/5940/stack
    [<0>] afs_get_io_locks+0x58/0x1ae
    [<0>] afs_begin_vnode_operation+0xc7/0xd1
    [<0>] afs_store_data+0x1b2/0x2a3
    [<0>] afs_write_back_from_locked_page+0x418/0x57c
    [<0>] afs_writepages_region+0x196/0x224
    [<0>] afs_writepages+0x74/0x156
    [<0>] do_writepages+0x2d/0x56
    [<0>] __writeback_single_inode+0x84/0x207
    [<0>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x238/0x3cf
    [<0>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x68/0x9f
    [<0>] wb_writeback+0x145/0x26c
    [<0>] wb_do_writeback+0x16a/0x194
    [<0>] wb_workfn+0x74/0x177
    [<0>] process_one_work+0x174/0x264
    [<0>] worker_thread+0x117/0x1b9
    [<0>] kthread+0xec/0xf1
    [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

and thus deadlock has occurred.

Note that whilst afs_setattr() calls filemap_write_and_wait(), the fact
that the caller is holding i_rwsem doesn't preclude more pages being
dirtied through an mmap'd region.

Fix this by:

 (1) Use the vnode validate_lock to mediate access between afs_setattr()
     and afs_writepages():

     (a) Exclusively lock validate_lock in afs_setattr() around the whole
     	 RPC operation.

     (b) If WB_SYNC_ALL isn't set on entry to afs_writepages(), trying to
     	 shared-lock validate_lock and returning immediately if we couldn't
     	 get it.

     (c) If WB_SYNC_ALL is set, wait for the lock.

     The validate_lock is also used to validate a file and to zap its cache
     if the file was altered by a third party, so it's probably a good fit
     for this.

 (2) Move the truncation outside of the io_lock in setattr, using the same
     hook as is used for local directory editing.

     This requires the old i_size to be retained in the operation record as
     we commit the revised status to the inode members inside the io_lock
     still, but we still need to know if we reduced the file size.

Fixes: d2ddc776a458 ("afs: Overhaul volume and server record caching and fileserver rotation")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/afs/write.c b/fs/afs/write.c
index 4b2265cb1891..da12abd6db21 100644
--- a/fs/afs/write.c
+++ b/fs/afs/write.c
@@ -738,11 +738,21 @@ static int afs_writepages_region(struct address_space *mapping,
 int afs_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		   struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
+	struct afs_vnode *vnode = AFS_FS_I(mapping->host);
 	pgoff_t start, end, next;
 	int ret;
 
 	_enter("");
 
+	/* We have to be careful as we can end up racing with setattr()
+	 * truncating the pagecache since the caller doesn't take a lock here
+	 * to prevent it.
+	 */
+	if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)
+		down_read(&vnode->validate_lock);
+	else if (!down_read_trylock(&vnode->validate_lock))
+		return 0;
+
 	if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
 		start = mapping->writeback_index;
 		end = -1;
@@ -762,6 +772,7 @@ int afs_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		ret = afs_writepages_region(mapping, wbc, start, end, &next);
 	}
 
+	up_read(&vnode->validate_lock);
 	_leave(" = %d", ret);
 	return ret;
 }