Patch "xfs: prevent dropping ioend completions during buftarg wait" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    xfs: prevent dropping ioend completions during buftarg wait

to the 4.7-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:
     xfs-prevent-dropping-ioend-completions-during-buftarg-wait.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 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 800b2694f890cc35a1bda63501fc71c94389d517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:01:59 +1000
Subject: xfs: prevent dropping ioend completions during buftarg wait

From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

commit 800b2694f890cc35a1bda63501fc71c94389d517 upstream.

xfs_wait_buftarg() waits for all pending I/O, drains the ioend
completion workqueue and walks the LRU until all buffers in the cache
have been released. This is traditionally an unmount operation` but the
mechanism is also reused during filesystem freeze.

xfs_wait_buftarg() invokes drain_workqueue() as part of the quiesce,
which is intended more for a shutdown sequence in that it indicates to
the queue that new operations are not expected once the drain has begun.
New work jobs after this point result in a WARN_ON_ONCE() and are
otherwise dropped.

With filesystem freeze, however, read operations are allowed and can
proceed during or after the workqueue drain. If such a read occurs
during the drain sequence, the workqueue infrastructure complains about
the queued ioend completion work item and drops it on the floor. As a
result, the buffer remains on the LRU and the freeze never completes.

Despite the fact that the overall buffer cache cleanup is not necessary
during freeze, fix up this operation such that it is safe to invoke
during non-unmount quiesce operations. Replace the drain_workqueue()
call with flush_workqueue(), which runs a similar serialization on
pending workqueue jobs without causing new jobs to be dropped. This is
safe for unmount as unmount independently locks out new operations by
the time xfs_wait_buftarg() is invoked.

cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -1531,7 +1531,7 @@ xfs_wait_buftarg(
 	 * ensure here that all reference counts have been dropped before we
 	 * start walking the LRU list.
 	 */
-	drain_workqueue(btp->bt_mount->m_buf_workqueue);
+	flush_workqueue(btp->bt_mount->m_buf_workqueue);
 
 	/* loop until there is nothing left on the lru list. */
 	while (list_lru_count(&btp->bt_lru)) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bfoster@redhat.com are

queue-4.7/xfs-prevent-dropping-ioend-completions-during-buftarg-wait.patch