btrfs: fix deadlock when cloning inline extent and low on free metadata space

When cloning an inline extent there are cases where we can not just copy
the inline extent from the source range to the target range (e.g. when the
target range starts at an offset greater than zero). In such cases we copy
the inline extent's data into a page of the destination inode and then
dirty that page. However, after that we will need to start a transaction
for each processed extent and, if we are ever low on available metadata
space, we may need to flush existing delalloc for all dirty inodes in an
attempt to release metadata space - if that happens we may deadlock:

* the async reclaim task queued a delalloc work to flush delalloc for
  the destination inode of the clone operation;

* the task executing that delalloc work gets blocked waiting for the
  range with the dirty page to be unlocked, which is currently locked
  by the task doing the clone operation;

* the async reclaim task blocks waiting for the delalloc work to complete;

* the cloning task is waiting on the waitqueue of its reservation ticket
  while holding the range with the dirty page locked in the inode's
  io_tree;

* if metadata space is not released by some other task (like delalloc for
  some other inode completing for example), the clone task waits forever
  and as a consequence the delalloc work and async reclaim tasks will hang
  forever as well. Releasing more space on the other hand may require
  starting a transaction, which will hang as well when trying to reserve
  metadata space, resulting in a deadlock between all these tasks.

When this happens, traces like the following show up in dmesg/syslog:

  [87452.323003] INFO: task kworker/u16:11:1810830 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
  [87452.323644]       Tainted: G    B   W         5.10.0-rc4-btrfs-next-73 #1
  [87452.324248] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  [87452.324852] task:kworker/u16:11  state:D stack:    0 pid:1810830 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
  [87452.325520] Workqueue: btrfs-flush_delalloc btrfs_work_helper [btrfs]
  [87452.326136] Call Trace:
  [87452.326737]  __schedule+0x5d1/0xcf0
  [87452.327390]  schedule+0x45/0xe0
  [87452.328174]  lock_extent_bits+0x1e6/0x2d0 [btrfs]
  [87452.328894]  ? finish_wait+0x90/0x90
  [87452.329474]  btrfs_invalidatepage+0x32c/0x390 [btrfs]
  [87452.330133]  ? __mod_memcg_state+0x8e/0x160
  [87452.330738]  __extent_writepage+0x2d4/0x400 [btrfs]
  [87452.331405]  extent_write_cache_pages+0x2b2/0x500 [btrfs]
  [87452.332007]  ? lock_release+0x20e/0x4c0
  [87452.332557]  ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1b/0xf0
  [87452.333127]  extent_writepages+0x43/0x90 [btrfs]
  [87452.333653]  ? lock_acquire+0x1a3/0x490
  [87452.334177]  do_writepages+0x43/0xe0
  [87452.334699]  ? __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xa4/0x100
  [87452.335720]  __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xc5/0x100
  [87452.336500]  btrfs_run_delalloc_work+0x17/0x40 [btrfs]
  [87452.337216]  btrfs_work_helper+0xf1/0x600 [btrfs]
  [87452.337838]  process_one_work+0x24e/0x5e0
  [87452.338437]  worker_thread+0x50/0x3b0
  [87452.339137]  ? process_one_work+0x5e0/0x5e0
  [87452.339884]  kthread+0x153/0x170
  [87452.340507]  ? kthread_mod_delayed_work+0xc0/0xc0
  [87452.341153]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
  [87452.341806] INFO: task kworker/u16:1:2426217 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
  [87452.342487]       Tainted: G    B   W         5.10.0-rc4-btrfs-next-73 #1
  [87452.343274] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  [87452.344049] task:kworker/u16:1   state:D stack:    0 pid:2426217 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
  [87452.344974] Workqueue: events_unbound btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space [btrfs]
  [87452.345655] Call Trace:
  [87452.346305]  __schedule+0x5d1/0xcf0
  [87452.346947]  ? kvm_clock_read+0x14/0x30
  [87452.347676]  ? wait_for_completion+0x81/0x110
  [87452.348389]  schedule+0x45/0xe0
  [87452.349077]  schedule_timeout+0x30c/0x580
  [87452.349718]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3c/0x60
  [87452.350340]  ? lock_acquire+0x1a3/0x490
  [87452.351006]  ? try_to_wake_up+0x7a/0xa20
  [87452.351541]  ? lock_release+0x20e/0x4c0
  [87452.352040]  ? lock_acquired+0x199/0x490
  [87452.352517]  ? wait_for_completion+0x81/0x110
  [87452.353000]  wait_for_completion+0xab/0x110
  [87452.353490]  start_delalloc_inodes+0x2af/0x390 [btrfs]
  [87452.353973]  btrfs_start_delalloc_roots+0x12d/0x250 [btrfs]
  [87452.354455]  flush_space+0x24f/0x660 [btrfs]
  [87452.355063]  btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space+0x1bb/0x480 [btrfs]
  [87452.355565]  process_one_work+0x24e/0x5e0
  [87452.356024]  worker_thread+0x20f/0x3b0
  [87452.356487]  ? process_one_work+0x5e0/0x5e0
  [87452.356973]  kthread+0x153/0x170
  [87452.357434]  ? kthread_mod_delayed_work+0xc0/0xc0
  [87452.357880]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
  (...)
  < stack traces of several tasks waiting for the locks of the inodes of the
    clone operation >
  (...)
  [92867.444138] RSP: 002b:00007ffc3371bbe8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000052
  [92867.444624] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc3371bea0 RCX: 00007f61efe73f97
  [92867.445116] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000560fbd5d7a40 RDI: 0000560fbd5d8960
  [92867.445595] RBP: 00007ffc3371beb0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000003
  [92867.446070] R10: 00007ffc3371b996 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
  [92867.446820] R13: 000000000000001f R14: 00007ffc3371bea0 R15: 00007ffc3371beb0
  [92867.447361] task:fsstress        state:D stack:    0 pid:2508238 ppid:2508153 flags:0x00004000
  [92867.447920] Call Trace:
  [92867.448435]  __schedule+0x5d1/0xcf0
  [92867.448934]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3c/0x60
  [92867.449423]  schedule+0x45/0xe0
  [92867.449916]  __reserve_bytes+0x4a4/0xb10 [btrfs]
  [92867.450576]  ? finish_wait+0x90/0x90
  [92867.451202]  btrfs_reserve_metadata_bytes+0x29/0x190 [btrfs]
  [92867.451815]  btrfs_block_rsv_add+0x1f/0x50 [btrfs]
  [92867.452412]  start_transaction+0x2d1/0x760 [btrfs]
  [92867.453216]  clone_copy_inline_extent+0x333/0x490 [btrfs]
  [92867.453848]  ? lock_release+0x20e/0x4c0
  [92867.454539]  ? btrfs_search_slot+0x9a7/0xc30 [btrfs]
  [92867.455218]  btrfs_clone+0x569/0x7e0 [btrfs]
  [92867.455952]  btrfs_clone_files+0xf6/0x150 [btrfs]
  [92867.456588]  btrfs_remap_file_range+0x324/0x3d0 [btrfs]
  [92867.457213]  do_clone_file_range+0xd4/0x1f0
  [92867.457828]  vfs_clone_file_range+0x4d/0x230
  [92867.458355]  ? lock_release+0x20e/0x4c0
  [92867.458890]  ioctl_file_clone+0x8f/0xc0
  [92867.459377]  do_vfs_ioctl+0x342/0x750
  [92867.459913]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x62/0xb0
  [92867.460377]  do_syscall_64+0x33/0x80
  [92867.460842]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
  (...)
  < stack traces of more tasks blocked on metadata reservation like the clone
    task above, because the async reclaim task has deadlocked >
  (...)

Another thing to notice is that the worker task that is deadlocked when
trying to flush the destination inode of the clone operation is at
btrfs_invalidatepage(). This is simply because the clone operation has a
destination offset greater than the i_size and we only update the i_size
of the destination file after cloning an extent (just like we do in the
buffered write path).

Since the async reclaim path uses btrfs_start_delalloc_roots() to trigger
the flushing of delalloc for all inodes that have delalloc, add a runtime
flag to an inode to signal it should not be flushed, and for inodes with
that flag set, start_delalloc_inodes() will simply skip them. When the
cloning code needs to dirty a page to copy an inline extent, set that flag
on the inode and then clear it when the clone operation finishes.

This could be sporadically triggered with test case generic/269 from
fstests, which exercises many fsstress processes running in parallel with
several dd processes filling up the entire filesystem.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.9+
Fixes: 05a5a7621ce6 ("Btrfs: implement full reflink support for inline extents")
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/reflink.c b/fs/btrfs/reflink.c
index ab80896315be..b03e7891394e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/reflink.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/reflink.c
@@ -89,6 +89,19 @@ static int copy_inline_to_page(struct btrfs_inode *inode,
 	if (ret)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
+	/*
+	 * After dirtying the page our caller will need to start a transaction,
+	 * and if we are low on metadata free space, that can cause flushing of
+	 * delalloc for all inodes in order to get metadata space released.
+	 * However we are holding the range locked for the whole duration of
+	 * the clone/dedupe operation, so we may deadlock if that happens and no
+	 * other task releases enough space. So mark this inode as not being
+	 * possible to flush to avoid such deadlock. We will clear that flag
+	 * when we finish cloning all extents, since a transaction is started
+	 * after finding each extent to clone.
+	 */
+	set_bit(BTRFS_INODE_NO_DELALLOC_FLUSH, &inode->runtime_flags);
+
 	if (comp_type == BTRFS_COMPRESS_NONE) {
 		char *map;
 
@@ -549,6 +562,8 @@ process_slot:
 out:
 	btrfs_free_path(path);
 	kvfree(buf);
+	clear_bit(BTRFS_INODE_NO_DELALLOC_FLUSH, &BTRFS_I(inode)->runtime_flags);
+
 	return ret;
 }