From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Yan, Zheng" Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: Fix block generation verification race Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 10:11:34 +0800 Message-ID: <4BDE30D6.9000602@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason Return-path: List-ID: After the path is released, the generation number got from block pointer is no long valid. The race may cause disk corruption, because verify_parent_transid() calls clear_extent_buffer_uptodate() when generation numbers mismatch. Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng --- diff -urp 1/fs/btrfs/ctree.c 2/fs/btrfs/ctree.c --- 1/fs/btrfs/ctree.c 2010-04-14 14:49:56.342950744 +0800 +++ 2/fs/btrfs/ctree.c 2010-05-03 09:44:24.426642447 +0800 @@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ read_block_for_search(struct btrfs_trans btrfs_release_path(NULL, p); ret = -EAGAIN; - tmp = read_tree_block(root, blocknr, blocksize, gen); + tmp = read_tree_block(root, blocknr, blocksize, 0); if (tmp) { /* * If the read above didn't mark this buffer up to date,