Re: 2.6.10-ac10 oops in journal_commit_transaction

[Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>]

* Zou, Nanhai (nanhai.zou@intel.com) wrote:
> 	We have seen the same oops on the same point.
> Can you point to me the URL where the patch is? 
> I am not sure which patch should I get.

I believe it's fixed in 2.6.11-ac, and we fixed it in the current stable
2.6.11.7 tree.  The following patch is what went into 2.6.11.7:
---

From: Stephen Tweedie
Subject: Prevent race condition in jbd

This patch from Stephen Tweedie which fixes a race in jbd code (it
demonstrated itself as more or less random NULL dereferences in the
journal code).

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

--- linux-2.6-ext3/fs/jbd/transaction.c.=K0000=.orig
+++ linux-2.6-ext3/fs/jbd/transaction.c
@@ -1775,10 +1775,10 @@ static int journal_unmap_buffer(journal_
 			JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "checkpointed: add to BJ_Forget");
 			ret = __dispose_buffer(jh,
 					journal->j_running_transaction);
+			journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 			spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
 			jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
 			spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-			journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 			return ret;
 		} else {
 			/* There is no currently-running transaction. So the
@@ -1789,10 +1789,10 @@ static int journal_unmap_buffer(journal_
 				JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "give to committing trans");
 				ret = __dispose_buffer(jh,
 					journal->j_committing_transaction);
+				journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 				spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
 				jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
 				spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-				journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 				return ret;
 			} else {
 				/* The orphan record's transaction has
@@ -1813,10 +1813,10 @@ static int journal_unmap_buffer(journal_
 					journal->j_running_transaction);
 			jh->b_next_transaction = NULL;
 		}
+		journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 		spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
 		jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
 		spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-		journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 		return 0;
 	} else {
 		/* Good, the buffer belongs to the running transaction.