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    Btrfs: check if previous transaction aborted to avoid fs corruption · 1f9b8c8f
    Filipe Manana authored
    
    
    While we are committing a transaction, it's possible the previous one is
    still finishing its commit and therefore we wait for it to finish first.
    However we were not checking if that previous transaction ended up getting
    aborted after we waited for it to commit, so we ended up committing the
    current transaction which can lead to fs corruption because the new
    superblock can point to trees that have had one or more nodes/leafs that
    were never durably persisted.
    The following sequence diagram exemplifies how this is possible:
    
              CPU 0                                                        CPU 1
    
      transaction N starts
    
      (...)
    
      btrfs_commit_transaction(N)
    
        cur_trans->state = TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_START;
        (...)
        cur_trans->state = TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_DOING;
        (...)
    
        cur_trans->state = TRANS_STATE_UNBLOCKED;
        root->fs_info->running_transaction = NULL;
    
                                                                  btrfs_start_transaction()
                                                                     --> starts transaction N + 1
    
        btrfs_write_and_wait_transaction(trans, root);
          --> starts writing all new or COWed ebs created
              at transaction N
    
                                                                  creates some new ebs, COWs some
                                                                  existing ebs but doesn't COW or
                                                                  deletes eb X
    
                                                                  btrfs_commit_transaction(N + 1)
                                                                    (...)
                                                                    cur_trans->state = TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_START;
                                                                    (...)
                                                                    wait_for_commit(root, prev_trans);
                                                                      --> prev_trans == transaction N
    
        btrfs_write_and_wait_transaction() continues
        writing ebs
           --> fails writing eb X, we abort transaction N
               and set bit BTRFS_FS_STATE_ERROR on
               fs_info->fs_state, so no new transactions
               can start after setting that bit
    
           cleanup_transaction()
             btrfs_cleanup_one_transaction()
               wakes up task at CPU 1
    
                                                                    continues, doesn't abort because
                                                                    cur_trans->aborted (transaction N + 1)
                                                                    is zero, and no checks for bit
                                                                    BTRFS_FS_STATE_ERROR in fs_info->fs_state
                                                                    are made
    
                                                                    btrfs_write_and_wait_transaction(trans, root);
                                                                      --> succeeds, no errors during writeback
    
                                                                    write_ctree_super(trans, root, 0);
                                                                      --> succeeds
                                                                      --> we have now a superblock that points us
                                                                          to some root that uses eb X, which was
                                                                          never written to disk
    
    In this scenario future attempts to read eb X from disk results in an
    error message like "parent transid verify failed on X wanted Y found Z".
    
    So fix this by aborting the current transaction if after waiting for the
    previous transaction we verify that it was aborted.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarLiu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Mason <clm@fb.com>
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