From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030836Ab2ERCzN (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2012 22:55:13 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:40599 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030741Ab2ERCwx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2012 22:52:53 -0400 Message-Id: <20120518023259.275988327@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 03:33:30 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Eric Sandeen , "Theodore Tso" Subject: [ 36/53] ext4: avoid deadlock on sync-mounted FS w/o journal In-Reply-To: <20120518023254.339945758@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.185 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Sandeen commit c1bb05a657fb3d8c6179a4ef7980261fae4521d7 upstream. Processes hang forever on a sync-mounted ext2 file system that is mounted with the ext4 module (default in Fedora 16). I can reproduce this reliably by mounting an ext2 partition with "-o sync" and opening a new file an that partition with vim. vim will hang in "D" state forever. The same happens on ext4 without a journal. I am attaching a small patch here that solves this issue for me. In the sync mounted case without a journal, ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() may call sync_dirty_buffer(), which can't be called with buffer lock held. Also move mb_cache_entry_release inside lock to avoid race fixed previously by 8a2bfdcb ext[34]: EA block reference count racing fix Note too that ext2 fixed this same problem in 2006 with b2f49033 [PATCH] fix deadlock in ext2 Signed-off-by: Martin.Wilck@ts.fujitsu.com [sandeen@redhat.com: move mb_cache_entry_release before unlock, edit commit msg] Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index 1bff752..3369157 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -484,18 +484,19 @@ ext4_xattr_release_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, ext4_free_blocks(handle, inode, bh, 0, 1, EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_METADATA | EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_FORGET); + unlock_buffer(bh); } else { le32_add_cpu(&BHDR(bh)->h_refcount, -1); + if (ce) + mb_cache_entry_release(ce); + unlock_buffer(bh); error = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, bh); if (IS_SYNC(inode)) ext4_handle_sync(handle); dquot_free_block(inode, 1); ea_bdebug(bh, "refcount now=%d; releasing", le32_to_cpu(BHDR(bh)->h_refcount)); - if (ce) - mb_cache_entry_release(ce); } - unlock_buffer(bh); out: ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, error); return; -- 1.7.10