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<title>btrfs: raid56: don't trust any cached sector in __raid56_parity_recover()</title>
<updated>2022-08-21T13:18:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qu Wenruo</name>
<email>wqu@suse.com</email>
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<published>2022-08-19T07:40:59+00:00</published>
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commit f6065f8edeb25f4a9dfe0b446030ad995a84a088 upstream.

[BUG]
There is a small workload which will always fail with recent kernel:
(A simplified version from btrfs/125 test case)

  mkfs.btrfs -f -m raid5 -d raid5 -b 1G $dev1 $dev2 $dev3
  mount $dev1 $mnt
  xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xee 0 1M" $mnt/file1
  sync
  umount $mnt
  btrfs dev scan -u $dev3
  mount -o degraded $dev1 $mnt
  xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xff 0 128M" $mnt/file2
  umount $mnt
  btrfs dev scan
  mount $dev1 $mnt
  btrfs balance start --full-balance $mnt
  umount $mnt

The failure is always failed to read some tree blocks:

  BTRFS info (device dm-4): relocating block group 217710592 flags data|raid5
  BTRFS error (device dm-4): parent transid verify failed on 38993920 wanted 9 found 7
  BTRFS error (device dm-4): parent transid verify failed on 38993920 wanted 9 found 7
  ...

[CAUSE]
With the recently added debug output, we can see all RAID56 operations
related to full stripe 38928384:

  56.1183: raid56_read_partial: full_stripe=38928384 devid=2 type=DATA1 offset=0 opf=0x0 physical=9502720 len=65536
  56.1185: raid56_read_partial: full_stripe=38928384 devid=3 type=DATA2 offset=16384 opf=0x0 physical=9519104 len=16384
  56.1185: raid56_read_partial: full_stripe=38928384 devid=3 type=DATA2 offset=49152 opf=0x0 physical=9551872 len=16384
  56.1187: raid56_write_stripe: full_stripe=38928384 devid=3 type=DATA2 offset=0 opf=0x1 physical=9502720 len=16384
  56.1188: raid56_write_stripe: full_stripe=38928384 devid=3 type=DATA2 offset=32768 opf=0x1 physical=9535488 len=16384
  56.1188: raid56_write_stripe: full_stripe=38928384 devid=1 type=PQ1 offset=0 opf=0x1 physical=30474240 len=16384
  56.1189: raid56_write_stripe: full_stripe=38928384 devid=1 type=PQ1 offset=32768 opf=0x1 physical=30507008 len=16384
  56.1218: raid56_write_stripe: full_stripe=38928384 devid=3 type=DATA2 offset=49152 opf=0x1 physical=9551872 len=16384
  56.1219: raid56_write_stripe: full_stripe=38928384 devid=1 type=PQ1 offset=49152 opf=0x1 physical=30523392 len=16384
  56.2721: raid56_parity_recover: full stripe=38928384 eb=39010304 mirror=2
  56.2723: raid56_parity_recover: full stripe=38928384 eb=39010304 mirror=2
  56.2724: raid56_parity_recover: full stripe=38928384 eb=39010304 mirror=2

Before we enter raid56_parity_recover(), we have triggered some metadata
write for the full stripe 38928384, this leads to us to read all the
sectors from disk.

Furthermore, btrfs raid56 write will cache its calculated P/Q sectors to
avoid unnecessary read.

This means, for that full stripe, after any partial write, we will have
stale data, along with P/Q calculated using that stale data.

Thankfully due to patch "btrfs: only write the sectors in the vertical stripe
which has data stripes" we haven't submitted all the corrupted P/Q to disk.

When we really need to recover certain range, aka in
raid56_parity_recover(), we will use the cached rbio, along with its
cached sectors (the full stripe is all cached).

This explains why we have no event raid56_scrub_read_recover()
triggered.

Since we have the cached P/Q which is calculated using the stale data,
the recovered one will just be stale.

In our particular test case, it will always return the same incorrect
metadata, thus causing the same error message "parent transid verify
failed on 39010304 wanted 9 found 7" again and again.

[BTRFS DESTRUCTIVE RMW PROBLEM]

Test case btrfs/125 (and above workload) always has its trouble with
the destructive read-modify-write (RMW) cycle:

        0       32K     64K
Data1:  | Good  | Good  |
Data2:  | Bad   | Bad   |
Parity: | Good  | Good  |

In above case, if we trigger any write into Data1, we will use the bad
data in Data2 to re-generate parity, killing the only chance to recovery
Data2, thus Data2 is lost forever.

This destructive RMW cycle is not specific to btrfs RAID56, but there
are some btrfs specific behaviors making the case even worse:

- Btrfs will cache sectors for unrelated vertical stripes.

  In above example, if we're only writing into 0~32K range, btrfs will
  still read data range (32K ~ 64K) of Data1, and (64K~128K) of Data2.
  This behavior is to cache sectors for later update.

  Incidentally commit d4e28d9b5f04 ("btrfs: raid56: make steal_rbio()
  subpage compatible") has a bug which makes RAID56 to never trust the
  cached sectors, thus slightly improve the situation for recovery.

  Unfortunately, follow up fix "btrfs: update stripe_sectors::uptodate in
  steal_rbio" will revert the behavior back to the old one.

- Btrfs raid56 partial write will update all P/Q sectors and cache them

  This means, even if data at (64K ~ 96K) of Data2 is free space, and
  only (96K ~ 128K) of Data2 is really stale data.
  And we write into that (96K ~ 128K), we will update all the parity
  sectors for the full stripe.

  This unnecessary behavior will completely kill the chance of recovery.

  Thankfully, an unrelated optimization "btrfs: only write the sectors
  in the vertical stripe which has data stripes" will prevent
  submitting the write bio for untouched vertical sectors.

  That optimization will keep the on-disk P/Q untouched for a chance for
  later recovery.

[FIX]
Although we have no good way to completely fix the destructive RMW
(unless we go full scrub for each partial write), we can still limit the
damage.

With patch "btrfs: only write the sectors in the vertical stripe which
has data stripes" now we won't really submit the P/Q of unrelated
vertical stripes, so the on-disk P/Q should still be fine.

Now we really need to do is just drop all the cached sectors when doing
recovery.

By this, we have a chance to read the original P/Q from disk, and have a
chance to recover the stale data, while still keep the cache to speed up
regular write path.

In fact, just dropping all the cache for recovery path is good enough to
allow the test case btrfs/125 along with the small script to pass
reliably.

The lack of metadata write after the degraded mount, and forced metadata
COW is saving us this time.

So this patch will fix the behavior by not trust any cache in
__raid56_parity_recover(), to solve the problem while still keep the
cache useful.

But please note that this test pass DOES NOT mean we have solved the
destructive RMW problem, we just do better damage control a little
better.

Related patches:

- btrfs: only write the sectors in the vertical stripe
- d4e28d9b5f04 ("btrfs: raid56: make steal_rbio() subpage compatible")
- btrfs: update stripe_sectors::uptodate in steal_rbio

Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo &lt;wqu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>btrfs: only write the sectors in the vertical stripe which has data stripes</title>
<updated>2022-08-21T13:18:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qu Wenruo</name>
<email>wqu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-19T07:40:58+00:00</published>
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commit bd8f7e627703ca5707833d623efcd43f104c7b3f upstream.

If we have only 8K partial write at the beginning of a full RAID56
stripe, we will write the following contents:

                    0  8K           32K             64K
Disk 1	(data):     |XX|            |               |
Disk 2  (data):     |               |               |
Disk 3  (parity):   |XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|

|X| means the sector will be written back to disk.

Note that, although we won't write any sectors from disk 2, but we will
write the full 64KiB of parity to disk.

This behavior is fine for now, but not for the future (especially for
RAID56J, as we waste quite some space to journal the unused parity
stripes).

So here we will also utilize the btrfs_raid_bio::dbitmap, anytime we
queue a higher level bio into an rbio, we will update rbio::dbitmap to
indicate which vertical stripes we need to writeback.

And at finish_rmw(), we also check dbitmap to see if we need to write
any sector in the vertical stripe.

So after the patch, above example will only lead to the following
writeback pattern:

                    0  8K           32K             64K
Disk 1	(data):     |XX|            |               |
Disk 2  (data):     |               |               |
Disk 3  (parity):   |XX|            |               |

Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo &lt;wqu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>btrfs: convert count_max_extents() to use fs_info-&gt;max_extent_size</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:42:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naohiro Aota</name>
<email>naohiro.aota@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-08T23:18:41+00:00</published>
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commit 7d7672bc5d1038c745716c397d892d21e29de71c upstream.

If count_max_extents() uses BTRFS_MAX_EXTENT_SIZE to calculate the number
of extents needed, btrfs release the metadata reservation too much on its
way to write out the data.

Now that BTRFS_MAX_EXTENT_SIZE is replaced with fs_info-&gt;max_extent_size,
convert count_max_extents() to use it instead, and fix the calculation of
the metadata reservation.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.12+
Fixes: d8e3fb106f39 ("btrfs: zoned: use ZONE_APPEND write for zoned mode")
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota &lt;naohiro.aota@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>btrfs: join running log transaction when logging new name</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:42:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Filipe Manana</name>
<email>fdmanana@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-17T21:05:05+00:00</published>
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commit 723df2bcc9e166ac7fb82b3932a53e09415dfcde upstream.

When logging a new name, in case of a rename, we pin the log before
changing it. We then either delete a directory entry from the log or
insert a key range item to mark the old name for deletion on log replay.

However when doing one of those log changes we may have another task that
started writing out the log (at btrfs_sync_log()) and it started before
we pinned the log root. So we may end up changing a log tree while its
writeback is being started by another task syncing the log. This can lead
to inconsistencies in a log tree and other unexpected results during log
replay, because we can get some committed node pointing to a node/leaf
that ends up not getting written to disk before the next log commit.

The problem, conceptually, started to happen in commit 88d2beec7e53fc
("btrfs: avoid logging all directory changes during renames"), because
there we started to update the log without joining its current transaction
first.

However the problem only became visible with commit 259c4b96d78dda
("btrfs: stop doing unnecessary log updates during a rename"), and that is
because we used to pin the log at btrfs_rename() and then before entering
btrfs_log_new_name(), when unlinking the old dentry, we ended up at
btrfs_del_inode_ref_in_log() and btrfs_del_dir_entries_in_log(). Both
of them join the current log transaction, effectively waiting for any log
transaction writeout (due to acquiring the root's log_mutex). This made it
safe even after leaving the current log transaction, because we remained
with the log pinned when we called btrfs_log_new_name().

Then in commit 259c4b96d78dda ("btrfs: stop doing unnecessary log updates
during a rename"), we removed the log pinning from btrfs_rename() and
stopped calling btrfs_del_inode_ref_in_log() and
btrfs_del_dir_entries_in_log() during the rename, and started to do all
the needed work at btrfs_log_new_name(), but without joining the current
log transaction, only pinning the log, which is racy because another task
may have started writeout of the log tree right before we pinned the log.

Both commits landed in kernel 5.18, so it doesn't make any practical
difference which should be blamed, but I'm blaming the second commit only
because with the first one, by chance, the problem did not happen due to
the fact we joined the log transaction after pinning the log and unpinned
it only after calling btrfs_log_new_name().

So make btrfs_log_new_name() join the current log transaction instead of
pinning it, so that we never do log updates if it's writeout is starting.

Fixes: 259c4b96d78dda ("btrfs: stop doing unnecessary log updates during a rename")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.18+
Reported-by: Zygo Blaxell &lt;ce3g8jdj@umail.furryterror.org&gt;
Tested-by: Zygo Blaxell &lt;ce3g8jdj@umail.furryterror.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana &lt;fdmanana@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>btrfs: zoned: wait until zone is finished when allocation didn't progress</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naohiro Aota</name>
<email>naohiro.aota@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-08T23:18:50+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2ce543f478433a0eec0f72090d7e814f1d53d456 ]

When the allocated position doesn't progress, we cannot submit IOs to
finish a block group, but there should be ongoing IOs that will finish a
block group. So, in that case, we wait for a zone to be finished and retry
the allocation after that.

Introduce a new flag BTRFS_FS_NEED_ZONE_FINISH for fs_info-&gt;flags to
indicate we need a zone finish to have proceeded. The flag is set when the
allocator detected it cannot activate a new block group. And, it is cleared
once a zone is finished.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.16+
Fixes: afba2bc036b0 ("btrfs: zoned: implement active zone tracking")
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota &lt;naohiro.aota@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: zoned: write out partially allocated region</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naohiro Aota</name>
<email>naohiro.aota@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-08T23:18:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 898793d992c23dac6126a6a94ad893eae1a2c9df ]

cow_file_range() works in an all-or-nothing way: if it fails to allocate an
extent for a part of the given region, it gives up all the region including
the successfully allocated parts. On cow_file_range(), run_delalloc_zoned()
writes data for the region only when it successfully allocate all the
region.

This all-or-nothing allocation and write-out are problematic when available
space in all the block groups are get tight with the active zone
restriction. btrfs_reserve_extent() try hard to utilize the left space in
the active block groups and gives up finally and fails with
-ENOSPC. However, if we send IOs for the successfully allocated region, we
can finish a zone and can continue on the rest of the allocation on a newly
allocated block group.

This patch implements the partial write-out for run_delalloc_zoned(). With
this patch applied, cow_file_range() returns -EAGAIN to tell the caller to
do something to progress the further allocation, and tells the successfully
allocated region with done_offset. Furthermore, the zoned extent allocator
returns -EAGAIN to tell cow_file_range() going back to the caller side.

Actually, we still need to wait for an IO to complete to continue the
allocation. The next patch implements that part.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.16+
Fixes: afba2bc036b0 ("btrfs: zoned: implement active zone tracking")
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota &lt;naohiro.aota@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>btrfs: zoned: activate necessary block group</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naohiro Aota</name>
<email>naohiro.aota@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-08T23:18:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b6a98021e4019c562a23ad151a7e40adfa9f91e5 ]

There are two places where allocating a chunk is not enough. These two
places are trying to ensure the space by allocating a chunk. To meet the
condition for active_total_bytes, we also need to activate a block group
there.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.16+
Fixes: afba2bc036b0 ("btrfs: zoned: implement active zone tracking")
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota &lt;naohiro.aota@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: zoned: activate metadata block group on flush_space</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naohiro Aota</name>
<email>naohiro.aota@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-08T23:18:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b0931513913633044ed6e3800334c28433c007b0 ]

For metadata space on zoned filesystem, reaching ALLOC_CHUNK{,_FORCE}
means we don't have enough space left in the active_total_bytes. Before
allocating a new chunk, we can try to activate an existing block group
in this case.

Also, allocating a chunk is not enough to grant a ticket for metadata
space on zoned filesystem we need to activate the block group to
increase the active_total_bytes.

btrfs_zoned_activate_one_bg() implements the activation feature. It will
activate a block group by (maybe) finishing a block group. It will give up
activating a block group if it cannot finish any block group.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.16+
Fixes: afba2bc036b0 ("btrfs: zoned: implement active zone tracking")
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota &lt;naohiro.aota@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: zoned: introduce space_info-&gt;active_total_bytes</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naohiro Aota</name>
<email>naohiro.aota@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-08T23:18:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6a921de589926a350634e6e279f43fa5b9dbf5ba ]

The active_total_bytes, like the total_bytes, accounts for the total bytes
of active block groups in the space_info.

With an introduction of active_total_bytes, we can check if the reserved
bytes can be written to the block groups without activating a new block
group. The check is necessary for metadata allocation on zoned
filesystem. We cannot finish a block group, which may require waiting
for the current transaction, from the metadata allocation context.
Instead, we need to ensure the ongoing allocation (reserved bytes) fits
in active block groups.

Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota &lt;naohiro.aota@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: store chunk size in space-info struct</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:42:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Roesch</name>
<email>shr@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-08T19:31:20+00:00</published>
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The chunk size is stored in the btrfs_space_info structure.  It is
initialized at the start and is then used.

A new API is added to update the current chunk size.  This API is used
to be able to expose the chunk_size as a sysfs setting.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch &lt;shr@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
[ rename and merge helpers, switch atomic type to u64, style fixes ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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