dm writecache: fix incorrect flush sequence when doing SSD mode commit

When committing state, the function writecache_flush does the following:
1. write metadata (writecache_commit_flushed)
2. flush disk cache (writecache_commit_flushed)
3. wait for data writes to complete (writecache_wait_for_ios)
4. increase superblock seq_count
5. write the superblock
6. flush disk cache

It may happen that at step 3, when we wait for some write to finish, the
disk may report the write as finished, but the write only hit the disk
cache and it is not yet stored in persistent storage. At step 5 we write
the superblock - it may happen that the superblock is written before the
write that we waited for in step 3. If the machine crashes, it may result
in incorrect data being returned after reboot.

In order to fix the bug, we must swap steps 2 and 3 in the above sequence,
so that we first wait for writes to complete and then flush the disk
cache.

Fixes: 48debafe4f2f ("dm: add writecache target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18+
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
index 7d727a72aa13..9b0a3bf6a4a1 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
@@ -442,7 +442,13 @@ static void writecache_notify_io(unsigned long error, void *context)
 		complete(&endio->c);
 }
 
-static void ssd_commit_flushed(struct dm_writecache *wc)
+static void writecache_wait_for_ios(struct dm_writecache *wc, int direction)
+{
+	wait_event(wc->bio_in_progress_wait[direction],
+		   !atomic_read(&wc->bio_in_progress[direction]));
+}
+
+static void ssd_commit_flushed(struct dm_writecache *wc, bool wait_for_ios)
 {
 	struct dm_io_region region;
 	struct dm_io_request req;
@@ -488,17 +494,20 @@ static void ssd_commit_flushed(struct dm_writecache *wc)
 	writecache_notify_io(0, &endio);
 	wait_for_completion_io(&endio.c);
 
+	if (wait_for_ios)
+		writecache_wait_for_ios(wc, WRITE);
+
 	writecache_disk_flush(wc, wc->ssd_dev);
 
 	memset(wc->dirty_bitmap, 0, wc->dirty_bitmap_size);
 }
 
-static void writecache_commit_flushed(struct dm_writecache *wc)
+static void writecache_commit_flushed(struct dm_writecache *wc, bool wait_for_ios)
 {
 	if (WC_MODE_PMEM(wc))
 		wmb();
 	else
-		ssd_commit_flushed(wc);
+		ssd_commit_flushed(wc, wait_for_ios);
 }
 
 static void writecache_disk_flush(struct dm_writecache *wc, struct dm_dev *dev)
@@ -522,12 +531,6 @@ static void writecache_disk_flush(struct dm_writecache *wc, struct dm_dev *dev)
 		writecache_error(wc, r, "error flushing metadata: %d", r);
 }
 
-static void writecache_wait_for_ios(struct dm_writecache *wc, int direction)
-{
-	wait_event(wc->bio_in_progress_wait[direction],
-		   !atomic_read(&wc->bio_in_progress[direction]));
-}
-
 #define WFE_RETURN_FOLLOWING	1
 #define WFE_LOWEST_SEQ		2
 
@@ -724,15 +727,12 @@ static void writecache_flush(struct dm_writecache *wc)
 		e = e2;
 		cond_resched();
 	}
-	writecache_commit_flushed(wc);
-
-	if (!WC_MODE_PMEM(wc))
-		writecache_wait_for_ios(wc, WRITE);
+	writecache_commit_flushed(wc, true);
 
 	wc->seq_count++;
 	pmem_assign(sb(wc)->seq_count, cpu_to_le64(wc->seq_count));
 	writecache_flush_region(wc, &sb(wc)->seq_count, sizeof sb(wc)->seq_count);
-	writecache_commit_flushed(wc);
+	writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false);
 
 	wc->overwrote_committed = false;
 
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ static void writecache_flush(struct dm_writecache *wc)
 	}
 
 	if (need_flush_after_free)
-		writecache_commit_flushed(wc);
+		writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false);
 }
 
 static void writecache_flush_work(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ static void writecache_discard(struct dm_writecache *wc, sector_t start, sector_
 	}
 
 	if (discarded_something)
-		writecache_commit_flushed(wc);
+		writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false);
 }
 
 static bool writecache_wait_for_writeback(struct dm_writecache *wc)
@@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ erase_this:
 
 	if (need_flush) {
 		writecache_flush_all_metadata(wc);
-		writecache_commit_flushed(wc);
+		writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false);
 	}
 
 	wc_unlock(wc);
@@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ static void __writecache_endio_pmem(struct dm_writecache *wc, struct list_head *
 			wc->writeback_size--;
 			n_walked++;
 			if (unlikely(n_walked >= ENDIO_LATENCY)) {
-				writecache_commit_flushed(wc);
+				writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false);
 				wc_unlock(wc);
 				wc_lock(wc);
 				n_walked = 0;
@@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ pop_from_list:
 			writecache_wait_for_ios(wc, READ);
 		}
 
-		writecache_commit_flushed(wc);
+		writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false);
 
 		wc_unlock(wc);
 	}
@@ -1766,10 +1766,10 @@ static int init_memory(struct dm_writecache *wc)
 		write_original_sector_seq_count(wc, &wc->entries[b], -1, -1);
 
 	writecache_flush_all_metadata(wc);
-	writecache_commit_flushed(wc);
+	writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false);
 	pmem_assign(sb(wc)->magic, cpu_to_le32(MEMORY_SUPERBLOCK_MAGIC));
 	writecache_flush_region(wc, &sb(wc)->magic, sizeof sb(wc)->magic);
-	writecache_commit_flushed(wc);
+	writecache_commit_flushed(wc, false);
 
 	return 0;
 }