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    Btrfs: do not start a transaction during fiemap · 03628cdb
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    During fiemap, for regular extents (non inline) we need to check if they
    are shared and if they are, set the shared bit. Checking if an extent is
    shared requires checking the delayed references of the currently running
    transaction, since some reference might have not yet hit the extent tree
    and be only in the in-memory delayed references.
    
    However we were using a transaction join for this, which creates a new
    transaction when there is no transaction currently running. That means
    that two more potential failures can happen: creating the transaction and
    committing it. Further, if no write activity is currently happening in the
    system, and fiemap calls keep being done, we end up creating and
    committing transactions that do nothing.
    
    In some extreme cases this can result in the commit of the transaction
    created by fiemap to fail with ENOSPC when updating the root item of a
    subvolume tree because a join does not reserve any space, leading to a
    trace like the following:
    
     heisenberg kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
     heisenberg kernel: BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -28)
     heisenberg kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7137 at fs/btrfs/root-tree.c:136 btrfs_update_root+0x22b/0x320 [btrfs]
    (...)
     heisenberg kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 7137 Comm: btrfs-transacti Not tainted 4.19.0-4-amd64 #1 Debian 4.19.28-2
     heisenberg kernel: Hardware name: FUJITSU LIFEBOOK U757/FJNB2A5, BIOS Version 1.21 03/19/2018
     heisenberg kernel: RIP: 0010:btrfs_update_root+0x22b/0x320 [btrfs]
    (...)
     heisenberg kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffb5448828bd40 EFLAGS: 00010286
     heisenberg kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8ed56bccef50 RCX: 0000000000000006
     heisenberg kernel: RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000000000000092 RDI: ffff8ed6bda166a0
     heisenberg kernel: RBP: 00000000ffffffe4 R08: 00000000000003df R09: 0000000000000007
     heisenberg kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8ed63396a078
     heisenberg kernel: R13: ffff8ed092d7c800 R14: ffff8ed64f5db028 R15: ffff8ed6bd03d068
     heisenberg kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8ed6bda00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
     heisenberg kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
     heisenberg kernel: CR2: 00007f46f75f8000 CR3: 0000000310a0a002 CR4: 00000000003606f0
     heisenberg kernel: DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
     heisenberg kernel: DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
     heisenberg kernel: Call Trace:
     heisenberg kernel:  commit_fs_roots+0x166/0x1d0 [btrfs]
     heisenberg kernel:  ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30
     heisenberg kernel:  ? btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0xac/0x180 [btrfs]
     heisenberg kernel:  btrfs_commit_transaction+0x2bd/0x870 [btrfs]
     heisenberg kernel:  ? start_transaction+0x9d/0x3f0 [btrfs]
     heisenberg kernel:  transaction_kthread+0x147/0x180 [btrfs]
     heisenberg kernel:  ? btrfs_cleanup_transaction+0x530/0x530 [btrfs]
     heisenberg kernel:  kthread+0x112/0x130
     heisenberg kernel:  ? kthread_bind+0x30/0x30
     heisenberg kernel:  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
     heisenberg kernel: ---[ end trace 05de912e30e012d9 ]---
    
    Since fiemap (and btrfs_check_shared()) is a read-only operation, do not do
    a transaction join to avoid the overhead of creating a new transaction (if
    there is currently no running transaction) and introducing a potential
    point of failure when the new transaction gets committed, instead use a
    transaction attach to grab a handle for the currently running transaction
    if any.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarChristoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/b2a668d7124f1d3e410367f587926f622b3f03a4.camel@scientia.net/
    Fixes: afce772e
    
     ("btrfs: fix check_shared for fiemap ioctl")
    CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
    Reviewed-by: default avatarQu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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