btrfs: update last_byte_to_unpin in switch_commit_roots
While writing an explanation for the need of the commit_root_sem for btrfs_prepare_extent_commit, I realized we have a slight hole that could result in leaked space if we have to do the old style caching. Consider the following scenario commit root +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ |\\\\| |\\\\|\\\\| |\\\\|\\\\| +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 new commit root +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ | | | |\\\\| | |\\\\| +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Prior to this patch, we run btrfs_prepare_extent_commit, which updates the last_byte_to_unpin, and then we subsequently run switch_commit_roots. In this example lets assume that caching_ctl->progress == 1 at btrfs_prepare_extent_commit() time, which means that cache->last_byte_to_unpin == 1. Then we go and do the switch_commit_roots(), but in the meantime the caching thread has made some more progress, because we drop the commit_root_sem and re-acquired it. Now caching_ctl->progress == 3. We swap out the commit root and carry on to unpin. The race can happen like: 1) The caching thread was running using the old commit root when it found the extent for [2, 3); 2) Then it released the commit_root_sem because it was in the last item of a leaf and the semaphore was contended, and set ->progress to 3 (value of 'last'), as the last extent item in the current leaf was for the extent for range [2, 3); 3) Next time it gets the commit_root_sem, will start using the new commit root and search for a key with offset 3, so it never finds the hole for [2, 3). So the caching thread never saw [2, 3) as free space in any of the commit roots, and by the time finish_extent_commit() was called for the range [0, 3), ->last_byte_to_unpin was 1, so it only returned the subrange [0, 1) to the free space cache, skipping [2, 3). In the unpin code we have last_byte_to_unpin == 1, so we unpin [0,1), but do not unpin [2,3). However because caching_ctl->progress == 3 we do not see the newly freed section of [2,3), and thus do not add it to our free space cache. This results in us missing a chunk of free space in memory (on disk too, unless we have a power failure before writing the free space cache to disk). Fix this by making sure the ->last_byte_to_unpin is set at the same time that we swap the commit roots, this ensures that we will always be consistent. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.8+ Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> [ update changelog with Filipe's review comments ] Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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