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Btrfs: fix race between enabling quotas and subvolume creation
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We have a race between enabling quotas end subvolume creation that cause
subvolume creation to fail with -EINVAL, and the following diagram shows
how it happens:

              CPU 0                                          CPU 1

 btrfs_ioctl()
  btrfs_ioctl_quota_ctl()
   btrfs_quota_enable()
    mutex_lock(fs_info->qgroup_ioctl_lock)

                                                  btrfs_ioctl()
                                                   create_subvol()
                                                    btrfs_qgroup_inherit()
                                                     -> save fs_info->quota_root
                                                        into quota_root
                                                     -> stores a NULL value
                                                     -> tries to lock the mutex
                                                        qgroup_ioctl_lock
                                                        -> blocks waiting for
                                                           the task at CPU0

   -> sets BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED in fs_info
   -> sets quota_root in fs_info->quota_root
      (non-NULL value)

   mutex_unlock(fs_info->qgroup_ioctl_lock)

                                                     -> checks quota enabled
                                                        flag is set
                                                     -> returns -EINVAL because
                                                        fs_info->quota_root was
                                                        NULL before it acquired
                                                        the mutex
                                                        qgroup_ioctl_lock
                                                   -> ioctl returns -EINVAL

Returning -EINVAL to user space will be confusing if all the arguments
passed to the subvolume creation ioctl were valid.

Fix it by grabbing the value from fs_info->quota_root after acquiring
the mutex.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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Filipe Manana authored and David Sterba committed Nov 22, 2018
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
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Expand Up @@ -2659,7 +2659,7 @@ int btrfs_qgroup_inherit(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, u64 srcid,
int i;
u64 *i_qgroups;
struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = trans->fs_info;
struct btrfs_root *quota_root = fs_info->quota_root;
struct btrfs_root *quota_root;
struct btrfs_qgroup *srcgroup;
struct btrfs_qgroup *dstgroup;
u32 level_size = 0;
Expand All @@ -2669,6 +2669,7 @@ int btrfs_qgroup_inherit(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, u64 srcid,
if (!test_bit(BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED, &fs_info->flags))
goto out;

quota_root = fs_info->quota_root;
if (!quota_root) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
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