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From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:01:53 +0100
Subject: [Cluster-devel] [GFS2] gfs2: fix quota refresh race in
	do_glock()
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Hi,

That makes sense to me. Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Steve.

On 07/04/15 18:48, Abhi Das wrote:
> quotad periodically syncs in-memory quotas to the ondisk quota file
> and sets the QDF_REFRESH flag so that a subsequent read of a synced
> quota is re-read from disk.
>
> gfs2_quota_lock() checks for this flag and sets a 'force' bit to
> force re-read from disk if requested. However, there is a race
> condition here. It is possible for gfs2_quota_lock() to find the
> QDF_REFRESH flag unset (i.e force=0) and quotad comes in immediately
> after and syncs the relevant quota and sets the QDF_REFRESH flag.
> gfs2_quota_lock() resumes with force=0 and uses the stale in-memory
> quota usage values that result in miscalculations.
>
> This patch fixes this race by moving the check for the QDF_REFRESH
> flag check further out into the gfs2_quota_lock() process, i.e, in
> do_glock(), under the protection of the quota glock.
>
> Resolves: rhbz#1174295
> Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
> ---
>   fs/gfs2/quota.c | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/quota.c b/fs/gfs2/quota.c
> index 5561468..5c27e48 100644
> --- a/fs/gfs2/quota.c
> +++ b/fs/gfs2/quota.c
> @@ -923,6 +923,9 @@ restart:
>   	if (error)
>   		return error;
>   
> +	if (test_and_clear_bit(QDF_REFRESH, &qd->qd_flags))
> +		force_refresh = FORCE;
> +
>   	qd->qd_qb = *(struct gfs2_quota_lvb *)qd->qd_gl->gl_lksb.sb_lvbptr;
>   
>   	if (force_refresh || qd->qd_qb.qb_magic != cpu_to_be32(GFS2_MAGIC)) {
> @@ -974,11 +977,8 @@ int gfs2_quota_lock(struct gfs2_inode *ip, kuid_t uid, kgid_t gid)
>   	     sizeof(struct gfs2_quota_data *), sort_qd, NULL);
>   
>   	for (x = 0; x < ip->i_res->rs_qa_qd_num; x++) {
> -		int force = NO_FORCE;
>   		qd = ip->i_res->rs_qa_qd[x];
> -		if (test_and_clear_bit(QDF_REFRESH, &qd->qd_flags))
> -			force = FORCE;
> -		error = do_glock(qd, force, &ip->i_res->rs_qa_qd_ghs[x]);
> +		error = do_glock(qd, NO_FORCE, &ip->i_res->rs_qa_qd_ghs[x]);
>   		if (error)
>   			break;
>   	}