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From: Aditya Prakash Srivastava <aditya.ansh182@gmail.com>
To: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Aditya Prakash Srivastava <aditya.ansh182@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 1/1] xfs: prevent close() from hanging on frozen filesystems
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:31:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260914093152.1698-2-aditya.ansh182@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260914093152.1698-1-aditya.ansh182@gmail.com>

When a file is closed, xfs_file_release() attempts to trim speculative
post-EOF blocks. This requires allocating a transaction, which blocks
indefinitely if the filesystem is frozen.

Fix the hang by wrapping the preallocation cleanup block with
sb_start_write_trylock() and xfs_ilock_nowait() to bypass the trim
best-effort when the filesystem is frozen or locking fails.

Suggested-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aditya Prakash Srivastava <aditya.ansh182@gmail.com>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
index d8202da15aca..dd6d2e08faff 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -1872,17 +1872,21 @@ xfs_file_release(
 		return 0;
 
 	/*
-	 * If we can't get the iolock just skip truncating the blocks past EOF
-	 * because we could deadlock with the mmap_lock otherwise. We'll get
-	 * another chance to drop them once the last reference to the inode is
-	 * dropped, so we'll never leak blocks permanently.
+	 * If we can't get the iolock or if the filesystem is frozen, just skip
+	 * truncating the blocks past EOF because we could deadlock with the
+	 * mmap_lock or hang the close() call. We'll get another chance to drop
+	 * them once the last reference to the inode is dropped, so we'll never
+	 * leak blocks permanently.
 	 */
 	if (!xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_EOFBLOCKS_RELEASED) &&
-	    xfs_ilock_nowait(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL)) {
-		if (xfs_can_free_eofblocks(ip) &&
-		    !xfs_iflags_test_and_set(ip, XFS_EOFBLOCKS_RELEASED))
-			xfs_free_eofblocks(ip);
-		xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
+	    sb_start_write_trylock(mp->m_super)) {
+		if (xfs_ilock_nowait(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL)) {
+			if (xfs_can_free_eofblocks(ip) &&
+			    !xfs_iflags_test_and_set(ip, XFS_EOFBLOCKS_RELEASED))
+				xfs_free_eofblocks(ip);
+			xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
+		}
+		sb_end_write(mp->m_super);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.47.3


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-14  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-14  9:31 [PATCH v6 0/1] xfs: prevent close() hangs " Aditya Prakash Srivastava
2026-09-14  9:31 ` Aditya Prakash Srivastava [this message]
2026-09-14 14:59   ` [PATCH v6 1/1] xfs: prevent close() from hanging " Darrick J. Wong

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