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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Masayoshi MIZUMA <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] writeback: skip new or to-be-freed inodes
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 11:07:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090606030725.GA12852@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090603144711.GC5738@localhost>

1) I_FREEING tests should be coupled with I_CLEAR

The two I_FREEING tests are racy because clear_inode() can set i_state to
I_CLEAR between the clear of I_SYNC and the test of I_FREEING.

2) skip I_WILL_FREE inodes in generic_sync_sb_inodes() to avoid possible
   races with generic_forget_inode()

generic_forget_inode() sets I_WILL_FREE call writeback on its own, so
generic_sync_sb_inodes() shall not try to step in and create possible races:

  generic_forget_inode
    inode->i_state |= I_WILL_FREE;
    spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
                                       generic_sync_sb_inodes()
                                         spin_lock(&inode_lock);
                                         __iget(inode);
                                         __writeback_single_inode
                                           // see non zero i_count
 may WARN here ==>                         WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_WILL_FREE);
                                         spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
 may call generic_forget_inode again ==> iput(inode);

The above race and warning didn't turn up because writeback_inodes() holds
the s_umount lock, so generic_forget_inode() finds MS_ACTIVE and returns
early. But we are not sure the UBIFS calls and future callers will guarantee
that. So skip I_WILL_FREE inodes for the sake of safety.

CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
CC: Masayoshi MIZUMA <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---
 fs/fs-writeback.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- linux.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ linux/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode,
 	spin_lock(&inode_lock);
 	WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_NEW);
 	inode->i_state &= ~I_SYNC;
-	if (!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING)) {
+	if (!(inode->i_state & (I_FREEING | I_CLEAR))) {
 		if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) &&
 		    mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)) {
 			/*
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ void generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super
 			break;
 		}
 
-		if (inode->i_state & I_NEW) {
+		if (inode->i_state & (I_NEW | I_WILL_FREE)) {
 			requeue_io(inode);
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ void generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super
 		if (current_is_pdflush() && !writeback_acquire(bdi))
 			break;
 
-		BUG_ON(inode->i_state & I_FREEING);
+		BUG_ON(inode->i_state & (I_FREEING | I_CLEAR));
 		__iget(inode);
 		pages_skipped = wbc->pages_skipped;
 		__writeback_single_inode(inode, wbc);

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-06  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-18  8:13 [PATCH][BUG] Lack of mutex_lock in drop_pagecache_sb() Masasyoshi MIZUMA
2009-03-23 10:38 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-24  7:06   ` Masayoshi MIZUMA
2009-03-24  7:44     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-24 12:05       ` Jan Kara
2009-03-24 12:11         ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-24 12:40         ` [PATCH] skip I_CLEAR state inodes Wu Fengguang
2009-03-30  7:18           ` [PATCH][RESEND for 2.6.29-rc8-mm1] " Wu Fengguang
2009-03-31 23:43             ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-01  0:53               ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-01 21:38           ` [PATCH] " Eric Sandeen
2009-06-02  8:55             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-02 10:27               ` Jeff Layton
2009-06-02 11:37               ` Jan Kara
2009-06-02 21:48                 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-06-03 10:45                   ` Jeff Layton
2009-06-03 13:32                 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-03 14:00                   ` Jan Kara
2009-06-03 14:10                 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-03 14:16                   ` Jan Kara
2009-06-03 14:47                     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-06  3:07                       ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2009-06-08  7:03                         ` [PATCH] writeback: skip new or to-be-freed inodes Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-08  9:29                           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-08 10:45                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-09  7:24                               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-09  7:03                             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-08 17:07                         ` Jan Kara

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