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xfs: clear PF_MEMALLOC before exiting xfsaild thread
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commit 10a98cb upstream.

Leaving PF_MEMALLOC set when exiting a kthread causes it to remain set
during do_exit().  That can confuse things.  In particular, if BSD
process accounting is enabled, then do_exit() writes data to an
accounting file.  If that file has FS_SYNC_FL set, then this write
occurs synchronously and can misbehave if PF_MEMALLOC is set.

For example, if the accounting file is located on an XFS filesystem,
then a WARN_ON_ONCE() in iomap_do_writepage() is triggered and the data
doesn't get written when it should.  Or if the accounting file is
located on an ext4 filesystem without a journal, then a WARN_ON_ONCE()
in ext4_write_inode() is triggered and the inode doesn't get written.

Fix this in xfsaild() by using the helper functions to save and restore
PF_MEMALLOC.

This can be reproduced as follows in the kvm-xfstests test appliance
modified to add the 'acct' Debian package, and with kvm-xfstests's
recommended kconfig modified to add CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y:

        mkfs.xfs -f /dev/vdb
        mount /vdb
        touch /vdb/file
        chattr +S /vdb/file
        accton /vdb/file
        mkfs.xfs -f /dev/vdc
        mount /vdc
        umount /vdc

It causes:
	WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 336 at fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:1534
	CPU: 1 PID: 336 Comm: xfsaild/vdc Not tainted 5.6.0-rc5 #3
	Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20191223_100556-anatol 04/01/2014
	RIP: 0010:iomap_do_writepage+0x16b/0x1f0 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:1534
	[...]
	Call Trace:
	 write_cache_pages+0x189/0x4d0 mm/page-writeback.c:2238
	 iomap_writepages+0x1c/0x33 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:1642
	 xfs_vm_writepages+0x65/0x90 fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c:578
	 do_writepages+0x41/0xe0 mm/page-writeback.c:2344
	 __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xd2/0x120 mm/filemap.c:421
	 file_write_and_wait_range+0x71/0xc0 mm/filemap.c:760
	 xfs_file_fsync+0x7a/0x2b0 fs/xfs/xfs_file.c:114
	 generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:2867 [inline]
	 xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0x379/0x3b0 fs/xfs/xfs_file.c:691
	 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1901 [inline]
	 new_sync_write+0x130/0x1d0 fs/read_write.c:483
	 __kernel_write+0x54/0xe0 fs/read_write.c:515
	 do_acct_process+0x122/0x170 kernel/acct.c:522
	 slow_acct_process kernel/acct.c:581 [inline]
	 acct_process+0x1d4/0x27c kernel/acct.c:607
	 do_exit+0x83d/0xbc0 kernel/exit.c:791
	 kthread+0xf1/0x140 kernel/kthread.c:257
	 ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352

This bug was originally reported by syzbot at
https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected].

Reported-by: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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ebiggers authored and gregkh committed May 2, 2020
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
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Expand Up @@ -529,8 +529,9 @@ xfsaild(
{
struct xfs_ail *ailp = data;
long tout = 0; /* milliseconds */
unsigned int noreclaim_flag;

current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
noreclaim_flag = memalloc_noreclaim_save();
set_freezable();

while (1) {
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tout = xfsaild_push(ailp);
}

memalloc_noreclaim_restore(noreclaim_flag);
return 0;
}

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