[34-longterm 010/260] ext4: don't return to userspace after freezing the fs with a mutex held

Paul Gortmaker
2011-01-02T07:21:37Z

From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

commit 6b0310fbf087ad6e9e3b8392adca97cd77184084 upstream.

ext4_freeze() used jbd2_journal_lock_updates() which takes
the j_barrier mutex, and then returns to userspace. The
kernel does not like this:

================================================
[ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
------------------------------------------------
lvcreate/1075 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
1 lock held by lvcreate/1075:
#0: (&journal->j_barrier){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff811c6214>]
jbd2_journal_lock_updates+0xe1/0xf0

Use vfs_check_frozen() added to ext4_journal_start_sb() and
ext4_force_commit() instead.

Addresses-Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #568503

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index e14d22c..00d09f5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ handle_t *ext4_journal_start_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nblocks)
if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
return ERR_PTR(-EROFS);

+ vfs_check_frozen(sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
/* Special case here: if the journal has aborted behind our
* backs (eg. EIO in the commit thread), then we still need to
* take the FS itself readonly cleanly. */
@@ -3485,8 +3486,10 @@ int ext4_force_commit(struct super_block *sb)
return 0;

journal = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal;
- if (journal)
+ if (journal) {
+ vfs_check_frozen(sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
ret = ext4_journal_force_commit(journal);
+ }

return ret;
}
@@ -3535,18 +3538,16 @@ static int ext4_freeze(struct super_block *sb)
* the journal.
*/
error = jbd2_journal_flush(journal);
- if (error < 0) {
- out:
- jbd2_journal_unlock_updates(journal);
- return error;
- }
+ if (error < 0)
+ goto out;

/* Journal blocked and flushed, clear needs_recovery flag. */
EXT4_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
error = ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
- if (error)
- goto out;
- return 0;
+out:
+ /* we rely on s_frozen to stop further updates */
+ jbd2_journal_unlock_updates(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal);
+ return error;
}

/*
@@ -3563,7 +3564,6 @@ static int ext4_unfreeze(struct super_block *sb)
EXT4_SET_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
unlock_super(sb);
- jbd2_journal_unlock_updates(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal);
return 0;
}

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