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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: fix a race which can lead to unreported write failure
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 01:57:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZRFLfTSMBXs+JTkc@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bc4c2aaa8d32ad92838b3778a85660ba7c6bfa8.1695617943.git.wqu@suse.com>

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 02:29:28PM +0930, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>                Thread A                |            Thread B
> ---------------------------------------+----------------------------------
>  btrfs_orig_write_end_io()             | btrfs_clone_write_end_io()
>  |  this bio failed                    | |  this bio failed
>  |                                     | |
>  |- atommic_inc(&bioc->error);         | |
>  |- atomic_read(&bioc->error)          | |
>  |  So far we only hit one error,      | |
>  |  thus can still consider the write  | |
>  |  succeeded                          | |
>  `- bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_OK;       | |
>                                        | `- atomic_inc(&bioc->error);

I don't think this scenario can happen.

btrfs_clone_write_end_io increments bioc->error before calling
bio_endio on the orig_bio, which is the earliest time
btrfs_orig_write_end_io will be called for this original bio due to
the earlier bio_inc_remaining.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-25  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-25  4:59 [PATCH] btrfs: fix a race which can lead to unreported write failure Qu Wenruo
2023-09-25  8:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-09-25  9:17   ` Qu Wenruo
2023-09-25  9:20     ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-25  9:39       ` Qu Wenruo

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