xfs: track and serialize in-flight async buffers against unmount

Newly allocated XFS metadata buffers are added to the LRU once the hold
count is released, which typically occurs after I/O completion. There is
no other mechanism at current that tracks the existence or I/O state of
a new buffer. Further, readahead I/O tends to be submitted
asynchronously by nature, which means the I/O can remain in flight and
actually complete long after the calling context is gone. This means
that file descriptors or any other holds on the filesystem can be
released, allowing the filesystem to be unmounted while I/O is still in
flight. When I/O completion occurs, core data structures may have been
freed, causing completion to run into invalid memory accesses and likely
to panic.

This problem is reproduced on XFS via directory readahead. A filesystem
is mounted, a directory is opened/closed and the filesystem immediately
unmounted. The open/close cycle triggers a directory readahead that if
delayed long enough, runs buffer I/O completion after the unmount has
completed.

To address this problem, add a mechanism to track all in-flight,
asynchronous buffers using per-cpu counters in the buftarg. The buffer
is accounted on the first I/O submission after the current reference is
acquired and unaccounted once the buffer is returned to the LRU or
freed. Update xfs_wait_buftarg() to wait on all in-flight I/O before
walking the LRU list. Once in-flight I/O has completed and the workqueue
has drained, all new buffers should have been released onto the LRU.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
index e2108dab82a2..1c2e52b2d926 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ typedef enum {
 #define _XBF_KMEM	 (1 << 21)/* backed by heap memory */
 #define _XBF_DELWRI_Q	 (1 << 22)/* buffer on a delwri queue */
 #define _XBF_COMPOUND	 (1 << 23)/* compound buffer */
+#define _XBF_IN_FLIGHT	 (1 << 25) /* I/O in flight, for accounting purposes */
 
 typedef unsigned int xfs_buf_flags_t;
 
@@ -82,7 +83,8 @@ typedef unsigned int xfs_buf_flags_t;
 	{ _XBF_PAGES,		"PAGES" }, \
 	{ _XBF_KMEM,		"KMEM" }, \
 	{ _XBF_DELWRI_Q,	"DELWRI_Q" }, \
-	{ _XBF_COMPOUND,	"COMPOUND" }
+	{ _XBF_COMPOUND,	"COMPOUND" }, \
+	{ _XBF_IN_FLIGHT,	"IN_FLIGHT" }
 
 
 /*
@@ -116,6 +118,8 @@ typedef struct xfs_buftarg {
 	/* LRU control structures */
 	struct shrinker		bt_shrinker;
 	struct list_lru		bt_lru;
+
+	struct percpu_counter	bt_io_count;
 } xfs_buftarg_t;
 
 struct xfs_buf;