[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: return error when we attempt to access a dirty bh in jbd2

piaojun piaojun at huawei.com
Thu Jan 25 17:45:05 PST 2018


Hi Changwei,

On 2018/1/26 9:00, Changwei Ge wrote:
> Hi Jun,
> Good morning:-)
> 
> On 2018/1/25 20:45, piaojun wrote:
>> Hi Changwei,
>>
>> On 2018/1/25 20:30, Changwei Ge wrote:
>>> Hi Jun,
>>>
>>> On 2018/1/25 20:18, piaojun wrote:
>>>> Hi Changwei,
>>>>
>>>> On 2018/1/25 19:59, Changwei Ge wrote:
>>>>> Hi Jun,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2018/1/25 10:41, piaojun wrote:
>>>>>> We should not reuse the dirty bh in jbd2 directly due to the following
>>>>>> situation:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. When removing extent rec, we will dirty the bhs of extent rec and
>>>>> Quick questions:
>>>>> Do you mean current code puts modifying extent records belonging to a certain file and modifying truncate log into the same transaction?
>>>>> If so, forgive me since I didn't figure it out. Could you point out in your following sequence diagram?
>>>>>
>>>>> Afterwards, I can understand the issue your change log is describing better.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Changwei
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, I mean they are in the same transaction as below:
>>>>
>>>> ocfs2_remove_btree_range
>>>>     ocfs2_remove_extent // modify extent records
>>>>       ocfs2_truncate_log_append // modify truncate log
>>>
>>> If so I think the transaction including operations on extent and truncate log won't be committed.
>>> And journal should already be aborted if interval transaction commit thread has been woken.
>>> So no metadata will be changed.
>>> And later, ocfs2_truncate_log_worker shouldn't see any inode on truncate log.
>>> Are you sure this is the root cause of your problem?
>>> I feel a little strange for it.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Changwei
>>>
>> As you said, the transaction was not committed, but after a while the
>> bh of truncate log was committed in another transaction. I'm sure for
>> the cause and after applying this patch, the duplicate cluster problem
>> is gone. I have tested it a few month.
> 
> I think we are talking about two jbd2/transactions. right?
yes, two transactions involved.

> One is for moving clusters from extent to truncate log. Let's name it T1.
> Anther is for declaiming clusters from truncate log and returning them back to global bitmap. Let's name it T2.
> 
> If jbd2 fails to commit T1 due to an IO error, the whole jbd2/journal will be aborted which means it can't work any more.
> All following starting transaction and commit transaction will fail.
> 
> So, how can the T2 be committed while T1 fails?
>From my testing jbd2 won't be aborted when encounter IO error, and I
print the bh->b_state = 0x44828 = 1000100100000101000. That means the
bh has been submitted but write IO, and still in jbd2 according to
'bh_state_bits' and 'jbd_state_bits'.

>
> Otherwise, did you ever try to recover jbd2/journal? If so, I think your patch here is not fit for mainline yet.
> 
Currently this problem needs user umount and mount again to recover,
and I'm glad to hear your advice.

thanks,
Jun

> Thanks,
> Changwei    
> 

>>
>> thanks,
>> Jun
>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Jun
>>>>
>>>>>>       truncate log at the same time, and hand them over to jbd2.
>>>>>> 2. The bhs are not flushed to disk due to abnormal storage link.
>>>>>> 3. After a while the storage link become normal. Truncate log flush
>>>>>>       worker triggered by the next space reclaiming found the dirty bh of
>>>>>>       truncate log and clear its 'BH_Write_EIO' and then set it uptodate
>>>>>>       in __ocfs2_journal_access():
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ocfs2_truncate_log_worker
>>>>>>      ocfs2_flush_truncate_log
>>>>>>        __ocfs2_flush_truncate_log
>>>>>>          ocfs2_replay_truncate_records
>>>>>>            ocfs2_journal_access_di
>>>>>>              __ocfs2_journal_access // here we clear io_error and set 'tl_bh' uptodata.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 4. Then jbd2 will flush the bh of truncate log to disk, but the bh of
>>>>>>       extent rec is still in error state, and unfortunately nobody will
>>>>>>       take care of it.
>>>>>> 5. At last the space of extent rec was not reduced, but truncate log
>>>>>>       flush worker have given it back to globalalloc. That will cause
>>>>>>       duplicate cluster problem which could be identified by fsck.ocfs2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So we should return -EIO in case of ruining atomicity and consistency
>>>>>> of space reclaim.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fixes: acf8fdbe6afb ("ocfs2: do not BUG if buffer not uptodate in __ocfs2_journal_access")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jun Piao <piaojun at huawei.com>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Yiwen Jiang <jiangyiwen at huawei.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>     fs/ocfs2/journal.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>>>>>     1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
>>>>>> index 3630443..d769ca2 100644
>>>>>> --- a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
>>>>>> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
>>>>>> @@ -666,21 +666,46 @@ static int __ocfs2_journal_access(handle_t *handle,
>>>>>>     	/* we can safely remove this assertion after testing. */
>>>>>>     	if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
>>>>>>     		mlog(ML_ERROR, "giving me a buffer that's not uptodate!\n");
>>>>>> -		mlog(ML_ERROR, "b_blocknr=%llu\n",
>>>>>> -		     (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr);
>>>>>> +		mlog(ML_ERROR, "b_blocknr=%llu, b_state=0x%lx\n",
>>>>>> +		     (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr, bh->b_state);
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     		lock_buffer(bh);
>>>>>>     		/*
>>>>>> -		 * A previous attempt to write this buffer head failed.
>>>>>> -		 * Nothing we can do but to retry the write and hope for
>>>>>> -		 * the best.
>>>>>> +		 * We should not reuse the dirty bh directly due to the
>>>>>> +		 * following situation:
>>>>>> +		 *
>>>>>> +		 * 1. When removing extent rec, we will dirty the bhs of
>>>>>> +		 *    extent rec and truncate log at the same time, and
>>>>>> +		 *    hand them over to jbd2.
>>>>>> +		 * 2. The bhs are not flushed to disk due to abnormal
>>>>>> +		 *    storage link.
>>>>>> +		 * 3. After a while the storage link become normal.
>>>>>> +		 *    Truncate log flush worker triggered by the next
>>>>>> +		 *    space reclaiming found the dirty bh of truncate log
>>>>>> +		 *    and clear its 'BH_Write_EIO' and then set it uptodate
>>>>>> +		 *    in __ocfs2_journal_access():
>>>>>> +		 *
>>>>>> +		 *    ocfs2_truncate_log_worker
>>>>>> +		 *      ocfs2_flush_truncate_log
>>>>>> +		 *        __ocfs2_flush_truncate_log
>>>>>> +		 *          ocfs2_replay_truncate_records
>>>>>> +		 *            ocfs2_journal_access_di
>>>>>> +		 *              __ocfs2_journal_access
>>>>>> +		 *
>>>>>> +		 * 4. Then jbd2 will flush the bh of truncate log to disk,
>>>>>> +		 *    but the bh of extent rec is still in error state, and
>>>>>> +		 *    unfortunately nobody will take care of it.
>>>>>> +		 * 5. At last the space of extent rec was not reduced,
>>>>>> +		 *    but truncate log flush worker have given it back to
>>>>>> +		 *    globalalloc. That will cause duplicate cluster problem
>>>>>> +		 *    which could be identified by fsck.ocfs2.
>>>>>> +		 *
>>>>>> +		 * So we should return -EIO in case of ruining atomicity
>>>>>> +		 * and consistency of space reclaim.
>>>>>>     		 */
>>>>>>     		if (buffer_write_io_error(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
>>>>>> -			clear_buffer_write_io_error(bh);
>>>>>> -			set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
>>>>>> -		}
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> -		if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
>>>>>> +			mlog(ML_ERROR, "A previous attempt to write this "
>>>>>> +				"buffer head failed\n");
>>>>>>     			unlock_buffer(bh);
>>>>>>     			return -EIO;
>>>>>>     		}
>>>>>>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>
> .
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