From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] jbd: Fix forever sleeping process in do_get_write_access()
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 16:08:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304604517-8759-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> (raw)
In do_get_write_access() we wait on BH_Unshadow bit for buffer to get
from shadow state. The waking code in journal_commit_transaction() has
a bug because it does not issue a memory barrier after the buffer is moved
from the shadow state and before wake_up_bit() is called. Thus a waitqueue
check can happen before the buffer is actually moved from the shadow state
and waiting process may never be woken. Fix the problem by issuing proper
barrier.
Reported-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
fs/jbd/commit.c | 9 +++++++--
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
This patch is in my tree to be submitted during the next merge window.
diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c
index 69b1804..f486ff6 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
@@ -722,8 +722,13 @@ wait_for_iobuf:
required. */
JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "file as BJ_Forget");
journal_file_buffer(jh, commit_transaction, BJ_Forget);
- /* Wake up any transactions which were waiting for this
- IO to complete */
+ /*
+ * Wake up any transactions which were waiting for this
+ * IO to complete. The barrier must be here so that changes
+ * by journal_file_buffer() take effect before wake_up_bit()
+ * does the waitqueue check.
+ */
+ smp_mb();
wake_up_bit(&bh->b_state, BH_Unshadow);
JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "brelse shadowed buffer");
__brelse(bh);
--
1.7.1
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