Re: [PATCH 5/6] ext4: Fix fsync error handling after filesystem abort.

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Tue 28-05-13 13:19:00, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> If filesystem was aborted after inode's write back is complete
> but before its metadata was updated we may return success
> results in data loss.
> In order to handle fs abort correctly we have to check
> fs state once we discover that it is in MS_RDONLY state
> 
> Test case: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/244297
> 
> Changes from V1:
>  - fix spelling
  Still not quite ;) Search for 'shure' and 'visiable'. But feel free to
add
  Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/fsync.c |    8 ++++++--
>  fs/ext4/super.c |   12 +++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
> index e0ba8a4..d7df2f1 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
> @@ -129,9 +129,13 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
>  		return ret;
>  	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
>  
> -	if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
> +	if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) {
> +		/* Make shure that we read updated s_mount_flags value */
> +		smp_rmb();
> +		if (EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_mount_flags & EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED)
> +			ret = -EROFS;
>  		goto out;
> -
> +	}
>  	ret = ext4_flush_unwritten_io(inode);
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		goto out;
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index edc716d..b4154d3 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -399,6 +399,11 @@ static void ext4_handle_error(struct super_block *sb)
>  	}
>  	if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_RO)) {
>  		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_CRIT, "Remounting filesystem read-only");
> +		/*
> +		 * Make shure updated value of ->s_mount_flags will be visiable
> +		 * before ->s_flags update
> +		 */
> +		smp_wmb();
>  		sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY;
>  	}
>  	if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_PANIC))
> @@ -571,8 +576,13 @@ void __ext4_abort(struct super_block *sb, const char *function,
>  
>  	if ((sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) == 0) {
>  		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_CRIT, "Remounting filesystem read-only");
> -		sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY;
>  		EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_flags |= EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED;
> +		/*
> +		 * Make shure updated value of ->s_mount_flags will be visiable
> +		 * before ->s_flags update
> +		 */
> +		smp_wmb();
> +		sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY;
>  		if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal)
>  			jbd2_journal_abort(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal, -EIO);
>  		save_error_info(sb, function, line);
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR