xfs: fix use-after-free race in xfs_buf_rele

When looking at a 4.18 based KASAN use after free report, I noticed
that racing xfs_buf_rele() may race on dropping the last reference
to the buffer and taking the buffer lock. This was the symptom
displayed by the KASAN report, but the actual issue that was
reported had already been fixed in 4.19-rc1 by commit e339dd8d8b04
("xfs: use sync buffer I/O for sync delwri queue submission").

Despite this, I think there is still an issue with xfs_buf_rele()
in this code:

        release = atomic_dec_and_lock(&bp->b_hold, &pag->pag_buf_lock);
        spin_lock(&bp->b_lock);
        if (!release) {
.....

If two threads race on the b_lock after both dropping a reference
and one getting dropping the last reference so release = true, we
end up with:

CPU 0				CPU 1
atomic_dec_and_lock()
				atomic_dec_and_lock()
				spin_lock(&bp->b_lock)
spin_lock(&bp->b_lock)
<spins>
				<release = true bp->b_lru_ref = 0>
				<remove from lists>
				freebuf = true
				spin_unlock(&bp->b_lock)
				xfs_buf_free(bp)
<gets lock, reading and writing freed memory>
<accesses freed memory>
spin_unlock(&bp->b_lock) <reads/writes freed memory>

IOWs, we can't safely take bp->b_lock after dropping the hold
reference because the buffer may go away at any time after we
drop that reference. However, this can be fixed simply by taking the
bp->b_lock before we drop the reference.

It is safe to nest the pag_buf_lock inside bp->b_lock as the
pag_buf_lock is only used to serialise against lookup in
xfs_buf_find() and no other locks are held over or under the
pag_buf_lock there. Make this clear by documenting the buffer lock
orders at the top of the file.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

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