[PATCH] dm-integrity: require stable writes for internal hash modes

"Chen Cheng" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.dm-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Chen Cheng <[email protected]>

dm-integrity direct, bitmap and inline internal-hash modes compute
integrity tags from the pages carried by the write bio.  The lower data
write also uses those pages, so the tag and the data write depend on the
same memory contents staying unchanged while writeback is in flight.

Without stable writes, a buffered writer can modify a writeback folio
after dm-integrity has submitted the data bio and before the lower device
has consumed the data.  After a crash, this can leave data from the later
contents with a tag calculated from the earlier contents, causing
permanent checksum failures on read.

Set BLK_FEAT_STABLE_WRITES for internal-hash D, B and I modes so
filesystems wait for writeback folios to become stable before modifying
them again.  Journal mode is left unchanged because it copies data into
the journal before computing and persisting the tag.

Tested using dm-delay over a virtio-blk test disk, dm-integrity
internal_hash:crc32c and no-journal ext4.  The D and B reproducers both
failed with checksum errors before this change and completed with
READ_RC=0 and zero mismatches after it.

Fixes: 7eada909bfd7 ("dm: add integrity target")
Reported-by: Sun Yangkai <[email protected]>
Link: https://github.com/chencheng-fnnas/reproducer/blob/main/dm-integrity-writeback-race.py
Signed-off-by: Chen Cheng <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c b/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
index 1f2593f113f6..49fb7561a30f 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
@@ -4044,10 +4044,14 @@ static void dm_integrity_io_hints(struct dm_target *ti, struct queue_limits *lim
 
 	dm_stack_bs_limits(limits, ic->sectors_per_block << SECTOR_SHIFT);
 	limits->dma_alignment = limits->logical_block_size - 1;
 	limits->discard_granularity = ic->sectors_per_block << SECTOR_SHIFT;
 
+	if (ic->internal_hash &&
+	    (ic->mode == 'D' || ic->mode == 'B' || ic->mode == 'I'))
+		limits->features |= BLK_FEAT_STABLE_WRITES;
+
 	if (!ic->internal_hash) {
 		struct blk_integrity *bi = &limits->integrity;
 
 		memset(bi, 0, sizeof(*bi));
 		bi->metadata_size = ic->tag_size;
-- 
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