Re: inode->i_wb_list corruption.

[Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:03:07PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 06-03-12 13:51:37, Dave Jones wrote:
> > We've had three separate reports against 3.2.x recently where the linked list debugging
> > is getting tripped up by the prev->next pointer being null instead of pointing
> > to the current list entry while walking the i_wb_list
> > 
> > Call traces are slightly different each time, but all end up walking i_wb_list 
> > in dput -> d_kill -> i_put -> evict -> inode_wb_list_del
> > 
> > What protects that list ? It looks to be just bdi->wb.list_lock ?
> > 
> > 
> > full reports at:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784741
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799229
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799692
>   Hum, interesting! I'd guess this might be caused by f758eeab - adding
> Fengguang and Christoph to CC. But I'm really failing to see how this could
> happen but interesting thing is that in two of the three cases the files
> are on virtual filesystems (once cgroup, once sysfs). These both use
> noop_backing_dev_info.

sysfs/cgroup forgot to init inode->i_wb_list?

This simplified fix inits it in inode_init_always().

The better fix would be to add init_once to sysfs or perhaps fix
sysfs_get_inode()/cgroup_new_inode().

Thanks,
Fengguang

---
 fs/inode.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- linux.orig/fs/inode.c	2012-02-22 19:20:48.374799955 -0800
+++ linux/fs/inode.c	2012-03-06 23:11:29.133899478 -0800
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ int inode_init_always(struct super_block
 	inode->i_private = NULL;
 	inode->i_mapping = mapping;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_dentry);	/* buggered by rcu freeing */
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_wb_list);
 #ifdef CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL
 	inode->i_acl = inode->i_default_acl = ACL_NOT_CACHED;
 #endif