ext4: avoid deadlock in fs reclaim with page writeback

Ext4 has a filesystem wide lock protecting ext4_writepages() calls to
avoid races with switching of journalled data flag or inode format. This
lock can however cause a deadlock like:

CPU0                            CPU1

ext4_writepages()
  percpu_down_read(sbi->s_writepages_rwsem);
                                ext4_change_inode_journal_flag()
                                  percpu_down_write(sbi->s_writepages_rwsem);
                                    - blocks, all readers block from now on
  ext4_do_writepages()
    ext4_init_io_end()
      kmem_cache_zalloc(io_end_cachep, GFP_KERNEL)
        fs_reclaim frees dentry...
          dentry_unlink_inode()
            iput() - last ref =>
              iput_final() - inode dirty =>
                write_inode_now()...
                  ext4_writepages() tries to acquire sbi->s_writepages_rwsem
                    and blocks forever

Make sure we cannot recurse into filesystem reclaim from writeback code
to avoid the deadlock.

Reported-by: syzbot+6898da502aef574c5f8a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0000000000004c66b405fa108e27@google.com
Fixes: c8585c6fcaf2 ("ext4: fix races between changing inode journal mode and ext4_writepages")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230504124723.20205-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 7e8f66ba17f4..6948d673bba2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1684,6 +1684,30 @@ static inline struct ext4_inode_info *EXT4_I(struct inode *inode)
 	return container_of(inode, struct ext4_inode_info, vfs_inode);
 }
 
+static inline int ext4_writepages_down_read(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	percpu_down_read(&EXT4_SB(sb)->s_writepages_rwsem);
+	return memalloc_nofs_save();
+}
+
+static inline void ext4_writepages_up_read(struct super_block *sb, int ctx)
+{
+	memalloc_nofs_restore(ctx);
+	percpu_up_read(&EXT4_SB(sb)->s_writepages_rwsem);
+}
+
+static inline int ext4_writepages_down_write(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	percpu_down_write(&EXT4_SB(sb)->s_writepages_rwsem);
+	return memalloc_nofs_save();
+}
+
+static inline void ext4_writepages_up_write(struct super_block *sb, int ctx)
+{
+	memalloc_nofs_restore(ctx);
+	percpu_up_write(&EXT4_SB(sb)->s_writepages_rwsem);
+}
+
 static inline int ext4_valid_inum(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 {
 	return ino == EXT4_ROOT_INO ||