Re: writeback: bad unlock balance detected in 3.5-rc1

[Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:07:36PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Fri 08-06-12 10:36:13, Ted Tso wrote:
> > 
> > I can reproduce this fairly easily by using ext4 w/o a journal, running
> > under KVM with 1024megs memory, with fsstress (xfstests #13):

Good catch, thanks!

>   Argh, I wonder how come I didn't hit this. Does attached patch fix the
> problem?

> diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> index 8d2fb8c..41a3ccf 100644
> --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
> +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> @@ -664,6 +664,7 @@ static long writeback_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
>  			/* Wait for I_SYNC. This function drops i_lock... */
>  			inode_sleep_on_writeback(inode);
>  			/* Inode may be gone, start again */
> +			spin_lock(&wb->list_lock);
>  			continue;
>  		}

That looks like the fix. So I pushed it to writeback-for-next.
Thanks for the quick fixing!

I'm yet to setup and run xfstests regularly, so as to catch such kind
of problems earlier in future.

Thanks,
Fengguang