[PATCH v3] xfs: avoid mount-time deadlock in CoW extent recovery

["Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>]

If a malicious user corrupts the refcount btree to cause a cycle between
different levels of the tree, the next mount attempt will deadlock in
the CoW recovery routine while grabbing buffer locks.  We can use the
ability to re-grab a buffer that was previous locked to a transaction to
avoid deadlocks, so do that here.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
---
v3: fix the error exit paths always to free the list
v2: leave a comment discussing why we use an empty transaction
---
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_refcount.c |   43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_refcount.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_refcount.c
index b177ef3..82a38d8 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_refcount.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_refcount.c
@@ -1629,13 +1629,28 @@ xfs_refcount_recover_cow_leftovers(
 	if (mp->m_sb.sb_agblocks >= XFS_REFC_COW_START)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
-	error = xfs_alloc_read_agf(mp, NULL, agno, 0, &agbp);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&debris);
+
+	/*
+	 * In this first part, we use an empty transaction to gather up
+	 * all the leftover CoW extents so that we can subsequently
+	 * delete them.  The empty transaction is used to avoid
+	 * a buffer lock deadlock if there happens to be a loop in the
+	 * refcountbt because we're allowed to re-grab a buffer that is
+	 * already attached to our transaction.  When we're done
+	 * recording the CoW debris we cancel the (empty) transaction
+	 * and everything goes away cleanly.
+	 */
+	error = xfs_trans_alloc_empty(mp, &tp);
 	if (error)
 		return error;
-	cur = xfs_refcountbt_init_cursor(mp, NULL, agbp, agno, NULL);
+
+	error = xfs_alloc_read_agf(mp, tp, agno, 0, &agbp);
+	if (error)
+		goto out_trans;
+	cur = xfs_refcountbt_init_cursor(mp, tp, agbp, agno, NULL);
 
 	/* Find all the leftover CoW staging extents. */
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&debris);
 	memset(&low, 0, sizeof(low));
 	memset(&high, 0, sizeof(high));
 	low.rc.rc_startblock = XFS_REFC_COW_START;
@@ -1645,10 +1660,11 @@ xfs_refcount_recover_cow_leftovers(
 	if (error)
 		goto out_cursor;
 	xfs_btree_del_cursor(cur, XFS_BTREE_NOERROR);
-	xfs_buf_relse(agbp);
+	xfs_trans_brelse(tp, agbp);
+	xfs_trans_cancel(tp);
 
 	/* Now iterate the list to free the leftovers */
-	list_for_each_entry(rr, &debris, rr_list) {
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(rr, n, &debris, rr_list) {
 		/* Set up transaction. */
 		error = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, &M_RES(mp)->tr_write, 0, 0, 0, &tp);
 		if (error)
@@ -1676,8 +1692,16 @@ xfs_refcount_recover_cow_leftovers(
 		error = xfs_trans_commit(tp);
 		if (error)
 			goto out_free;
+
+		list_del(&rr->rr_list);
+		kmem_free(rr);
 	}
 
+	return error;
+out_defer:
+	xfs_defer_cancel(&dfops);
+out_trans:
+	xfs_trans_cancel(tp);
 out_free:
 	/* Free the leftover list */
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(rr, n, &debris, rr_list) {
@@ -1688,11 +1712,6 @@ xfs_refcount_recover_cow_leftovers(
 
 out_cursor:
 	xfs_btree_del_cursor(cur, XFS_BTREE_ERROR);
-	xfs_buf_relse(agbp);
-	goto out_free;
-
-out_defer:
-	xfs_defer_cancel(&dfops);
-	xfs_trans_cancel(tp);
-	goto out_free;
+	xfs_trans_brelse(tp, agbp);
+	goto out_trans;
 }

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