Patch "jbd2: fix checkpoint list cleanup" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

Patch "jbd2: fix checkpoint list cleanup" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    jbd2: fix checkpoint list cleanup

to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     jbd2-fix-checkpoint-list-cleanup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 33d14975e5ac469963d5d63856b61698ad0bff07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:35:09 -0400
Subject: jbd2: fix checkpoint list cleanup

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>

commit 33d14975e5ac469963d5d63856b61698ad0bff07 upstream.

Unlike comments and expectation of callers journal_clean_one_cp_list()
returned 1 not only if it freed the transaction but also if it freed
some buffers in the transaction. That could make
__jbd2_journal_clean_checkpoint_list() skip processing
t_checkpoint_io_list and continue with processing the next transaction.
This is mostly a cosmetic issue since the only result is we can
sometimes free less memory than we could. But it's still worth fixing.
Fix journal_clean_one_cp_list() to return 1 only if the transaction was
really freed.

Fixes: 50849db32a9f529235a84bcc84a6b8e631b1d0ec
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c |    8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
@@ -427,7 +427,6 @@ static int journal_clean_one_cp_list(str
 	struct journal_head *last_jh;
 	struct journal_head *next_jh = jh;
 	int ret;
-	int freed = 0;
 
 	if (!jh)
 		return 0;
@@ -441,10 +440,9 @@ static int journal_clean_one_cp_list(str
 		else
 			ret = __jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint(jh) + 1;
 		if (!ret)
-			return freed;
+			return 0;
 		if (ret == 2)
 			return 1;
-		freed = 1;
 		/*
 		 * This function only frees up some memory
 		 * if possible so we dont have an obligation
@@ -452,10 +450,10 @@ static int journal_clean_one_cp_list(str
 		 * requested:
 		 */
 		if (need_resched())
-			return freed;
+			return 0;
 	} while (jh != last_jh);
 
-	return freed;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /*


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@suse.com are

queue-4.3/jbd2-fix-checkpoint-list-cleanup.patch