Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: fix bug_on ext4_mb_use_inode_pa

From: Baokun Li
Date: Tue May 24 2022 - 08:42:57 EST


在 2022/5/24 20:11, Lukas Czerner 写道:
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 08:19:03PM +0800, libaokun (A) wrote:
在 2022/5/23 17:58, Lukas Czerner 写道:
On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 09:42:16PM +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
Hulk Robot reported a BUG_ON:
==================================================================
kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3211!
[...]
RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used.cold+0x85/0x136f
[...]
Call Trace:
ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x9df/0x5d30
ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1803/0x4d80
ext4_map_blocks+0x3a4/0x1a10
ext4_writepages+0x126d/0x2c30
do_writepages+0x7f/0x1b0
__filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x285/0x3b0
file_write_and_wait_range+0xb1/0x140
ext4_sync_file+0x1aa/0xca0
vfs_fsync_range+0xfb/0x260
do_fsync+0x48/0xa0
[...]
==================================================================

Above issue may happen as follows:
-------------------------------------
do_fsync
vfs_fsync_range
ext4_sync_file
file_write_and_wait_range
__filemap_fdatawrite_range
do_writepages
ext4_writepages
mpage_map_and_submit_extent
mpage_map_one_extent
ext4_map_blocks
ext4_mb_new_blocks
ext4_mb_normalize_request
>>> start + size <= ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical
ext4_mb_regular_allocator
ext4_mb_simple_scan_group
ext4_mb_use_best_found
ext4_mb_new_preallocation
ext4_mb_new_inode_pa
ext4_mb_use_inode_pa
>>> set ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len <= 0
ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used
>>> BUG_ON(ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len <= 0);

we can easily reproduce this problem with the following commands:
`fallocate -l100M disk`
`mkfs.ext4 -b 1024 -g 256 disk`
`mount disk /mnt`
`fsstress -d /mnt -l 0 -n 1000 -p 1`

The size must be smaller than or equal to EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP.
Therefore, "start + size <= ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical" may occur
when the size is truncated. So start should be the start position of
the group where ac_o_ex.fe_logical is located after alignment.
In addition, when the value of fe_logical or EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP
is very large, the value calculated by start_off is more accurate.

Fixes: cd648b8a8fd5 ("ext4: trim allocation requests to group size")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot<hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li<libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index ea653d19f9ec..32410b79b664 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4107,6 +4107,17 @@ ext4_mb_normalize_request(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac,
size = size >> bsbits;
start = start_off >> bsbits;
+ /*
+ * Because size must be less than or equal to
+ * EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP, start should be the start position of
+ * the group where ac_o_ex.fe_logical is located after alignment.
+ * In addition, when the value of fe_logical or
+ * EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP is very large, the value calculated
+ * by start_off is more accurate.
+ */
+ start = max(start, round_down(ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical,
+ EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(ac->ac_sb)));
This does not look right. The second argument in round_down() must be a
power of two, but there is no such restriction on blocks per group.
Indeed, block peer group size should be a multiple of 8. I forgot.

Thank you very much for your correction.

Also I am not quite sure why do we adjust the start in this way at all?
If we found what seems to be a preallocated extent which we can use and
we're actually going to use 0 lenght extent it seems like the problem is
somewhere else? Can you desribe the problem a bit more in detail?

Maybe I need to look at the ext4_mb_normalize_request() some more.

-Lukas
The logical block map reached before the problem stack was 1011.

The estimated location of the size logical block of the inde plus the
required allocation length 7, the size is 1018.

But the i_size of inode is 1299, so the size is 1299, the aligned size is
2048, and the end is 2048.

Because of the restriction of ar -> pleft, start==648.

EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP (ac- > ac_sb) is 256, so the size is 256 and the end
is 904.

It is not normal to truncate here, the end is less than 1299 of the target
logical block,
that is, the allocated range does not contain the target logical block.

Then this new scope conflicts with the previous PA, as follows:

          pa_start-506           pa_end-759
 |____________P________V_________P__________V_____________l________|
 0                       start-648                   end-904 logical-1299
2048

In this case, start is changed to pa_end, that is, 759.
In this case, a bug_ON is reported in ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used.

The problem is caused by the truncation introduced in the
cd648b8a8fd5 ("ext4: trim allocation requests to group size").
The size must be smaller than or equal to EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP.
However, the truncation method is incorrect. The group where the logical is
located should be used for allocation. If the value of EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP
is 256, size 2048 can be divided into eight groups. If the value of logical
is 1299,
the value of logical must be in the sixth group, that is,
start=1299/256*256=5*256=1280, end=size+1280=1536.
Then, the value range can be further narrowed down based on other
restrictions.

                                   1024     1280     1536
|________|________|________|________|________|__l______|________|________|
0 group1 group2 group3 group4 group5 group6 group7 group8 2048
Ok, thanks for the explanation it makes sense now, although should not
we just adjust the start only when the size is being truncated to the
EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP?

-Lukas
Yes, it is. Assume that the value of fe_logical is 1011,
and the value of EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP is 1024.
In this case, 1011 / 1024 = 0, and 0 x 1024 is still 0.
Therefore, the value of start is 0, which does not change.

+
/* don't cover already allocated blocks in selected range */
if (ar->pleft && start <= ar->lleft) {
size -= ar->lleft + 1 - start;
--
2.31.1

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With Best Regards,
Baokun Li
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With Best Regards,
Baokun Li