Data loss can occur when fsync is performed on a newly created file
(before any checkpoint has been written) concurrently with a checkpoint
operation. The scenario is as follows:
create & write & fsync 'file A' write checkpoint
- f2fs_do_sync_file // inline inode
- f2fs_write_inode // inode folio is dirty
- f2fs_write_checkpoint
- f2fs_flush_merged_writes
- f2fs_sync_node_pages
- f2fs_flush_nat_entries
- f2fs_fsync_node_pages // no dirty node
- f2fs_need_inode_block_update // return false
SPO and lost 'file A'
f2fs_flush_nat_entries() sets the IS_CHECKPOINTED and HAS_LAST_FSYNC
flags for the nat_entry, but this does not mean that the checkpoint has
actually completed successfully. However, f2fs_need_inode_block_update()
checks these flags and incorrectly assumes that the checkpoint has
finished.
The root cause is that the semantics of IS_CHECKPOINTED and
HAS_LAST_FSYNC are only guaranteed after the checkpoint write fully
completes.
This patch modifies f2fs_need_inode_block_update() to acquire the
sbi->node_write lock before reading the nat_entry flags, ensuring that
once IS_CHECKPOINTED and HAS_LAST_FSYNC are observed to be set, the
checkpoint operation has already completed.
Fixes: e05df3b115e7 ("f2fs: add node operations")
Signed-off-by: Yongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
struct f2fs_nm_info *nm_i = NM_I(sbi);
struct nat_entry *e;
bool need_update = true;
+ struct f2fs_lock_context lc;
+ f2fs_down_read_trace(&sbi->node_write, &lc);
f2fs_down_read(&nm_i->nat_tree_lock);
e = __lookup_nat_cache(nm_i, ino, false);
if (e && get_nat_flag(e, HAS_LAST_FSYNC) &&
get_nat_flag(e, HAS_FSYNCED_INODE)))
need_update = false;
f2fs_up_read(&nm_i->nat_tree_lock);
+ f2fs_up_read_trace(&sbi->node_write, &lc);
return need_update;
}