[PATCH v2 0/2] Fix generic/390 failure due to quota release after freeze

Ojaswin Mujoo
2024-11-21T12:39:09Z

Changes since v1:

* Patch 1: Move flush_delayed_work() to start of function
* Patch 2: Guard ext4_release_dquot against freeze

Regarding patch 2, as per my understanding of the journalling code,
right now ext4_release_dquot() can only be called from the
quota_realease_work workqueue and hence ideally should never have a
journal open but to future-proof it we make sure the journal is not
opened when calling sb_start_inwrite().

** Original Cover **

Recently we noticed generic/390 failing on powerpc systems. This test
basically does a freeze-unfreeze loop in parallel with fsstress on the
FS to detect any races in the code paths.

We noticed that the test started failing due to kernel WARN_ONs because
quota_release_work workqueue started executing while the FS was frozen
which led to creating new transactions in ext4_release_quota.

Most of the details are in the bug however I'd just like to add that
I'm completely new to quota code so the patch, although fixing the
issue, might be not be logically the right thing to do. So reviews and
suggestions are welcome.

Also, I can only replicate this race on one of my machines reliably and
does not appear on others. I've tested with with fstests -g quota and
don't see any new failures.

Ojaswin Mujoo (2):
quota: flush quota_release_work upon quota writeback
ext4: protect ext4_release_dquot against freezing

fs/ext4/super.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
fs/quota/dquot.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

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