dm snapshot: fix header corruption race on invalidation

If a persistent snapshot fills up, a race can corrupt the on-disk header
which causes a crash on any future attempt to activate the snapshot
(typically while booting).  This patch fixes the race.

When the snapshot overflows, __invalidate_snapshot is called, which calls
snapshot store method drop_snapshot. It goes to persistent_drop_snapshot that
calls write_header. write_header constructs the new header in the "area"
location.

Concurrently, an existing kcopyd job may finish, call copy_callback
and commit_exception method, that goes to persistent_commit_exception.
persistent_commit_exception doesn't do locking, relying on the fact that
callbacks are single-threaded, but it can race with snapshot invalidation and
overwrite the header that is just being written while the snapshot is being
invalidated.

The result of this race is a corrupted header being written that can
lead to a crash on further reactivation (if chunk_size is zero in the
corrupted header).

The fix is to use separate memory areas for each.

See the bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461506

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c b/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c
index 2a3d626..5d1a975 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c
@@ -106,6 +106,13 @@ struct pstore {
 	void *zero_area;
 
 	/*
+	 * An area used for header. The header can be written
+	 * concurrently with metadata (when invalidating the snapshot),
+	 * so it needs a separate buffer.
+	 */
+	void *header_area;
+
+	/*
 	 * Used to keep track of which metadata area the data in
 	 * 'chunk' refers to.
 	 */
@@ -148,16 +155,27 @@ static int alloc_area(struct pstore *ps)
 	 */
 	ps->area = vmalloc(len);
 	if (!ps->area)
-		return r;
+		goto err_area;
 
 	ps->zero_area = vmalloc(len);
-	if (!ps->zero_area) {
-		vfree(ps->area);
-		return r;
-	}
+	if (!ps->zero_area)
+		goto err_zero_area;
 	memset(ps->zero_area, 0, len);
 
+	ps->header_area = vmalloc(len);
+	if (!ps->header_area)
+		goto err_header_area;
+
 	return 0;
+
+err_header_area:
+	vfree(ps->zero_area);
+
+err_zero_area:
+	vfree(ps->area);
+
+err_area:
+	return r;
 }
 
 static void free_area(struct pstore *ps)
@@ -169,6 +187,10 @@ static void free_area(struct pstore *ps)
 	if (ps->zero_area)
 		vfree(ps->zero_area);
 	ps->zero_area = NULL;
+
+	if (ps->header_area)
+		vfree(ps->header_area);
+	ps->header_area = NULL;
 }
 
 struct mdata_req {
@@ -285,11 +307,11 @@ static int read_header(struct pstore *ps, int *new_snapshot)
 	if (r)
 		return r;
 
-	r = chunk_io(ps, ps->area, 0, READ, 1);
+	r = chunk_io(ps, ps->header_area, 0, READ, 1);
 	if (r)
 		goto bad;
 
-	dh = (struct disk_header *) ps->area;
+	dh = ps->header_area;
 
 	if (le32_to_cpu(dh->magic) == 0) {
 		*new_snapshot = 1;
@@ -339,15 +361,15 @@ static int write_header(struct pstore *ps)
 {
 	struct disk_header *dh;
 
-	memset(ps->area, 0, ps->store->chunk_size << SECTOR_SHIFT);
+	memset(ps->header_area, 0, ps->store->chunk_size << SECTOR_SHIFT);
 
-	dh = (struct disk_header *) ps->area;
+	dh = ps->header_area;
 	dh->magic = cpu_to_le32(SNAP_MAGIC);
 	dh->valid = cpu_to_le32(ps->valid);
 	dh->version = cpu_to_le32(ps->version);
 	dh->chunk_size = cpu_to_le32(ps->store->chunk_size);
 
-	return chunk_io(ps, ps->area, 0, WRITE, 1);
+	return chunk_io(ps, ps->header_area, 0, WRITE, 1);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -667,6 +689,8 @@ static int persistent_ctr(struct dm_exception_store *store,
 	ps->valid = 1;
 	ps->version = SNAPSHOT_DISK_VERSION;
 	ps->area = NULL;
+	ps->zero_area = NULL;
+	ps->header_area = NULL;
 	ps->next_free = 2;	/* skipping the header and first area */
 	ps->current_committed = 0;