Re: 2.6.23-mm1: BUG in reiserfs_delete_xattrs

Laurent Riffard
2007-10-14T22:35:16Z

Le 12.10.2007 06:31, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/

/home is mounted with the following options:
/dev/mapper/vglinux1-lvhome on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime,user_xattr)

I guess that beagled (the Beagle desktop search daemon) has populated user
xattrs on almost all files. Now, when I delete a file, two BUGs occur
and the system hangs. Here is the stack for the first BUG (the second
one is very similar):

[partially hand copied stack]
_fput
fput
reiserfs_delete_xattrs
reiserfs_delete_inode
generic_delete_inode
generic_drop_inode
iput
do_unlinkat
sys_unlink
sys_enter_past_esp

I reported a similar BUG in 2.6.22-rc8-mm2 (see
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/27/235). Dave Hansen sent a patch for it, I
tested it and it was OK for 2.6.22-rc8-mm2.

I tried this patch on 2.6.23-mm1, and it fixed the BUGs here too.

----
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>

The bug is caused by reiserfs creating a special 'struct file' with a
NULL vfsmount.

/* Opens a file pointer to the attribute associated with inode */
static struct file *open_xa_file(const struct inode *inode, const char
*name,
int flags)
{
...
fp = dentry_open(xafile, NULL, O_RDWR);
/* dentry_open dputs the dentry if it fails */

As Christoph just said, this is somewhat of a bandaid. But, it
shouldn't hurt anything.

---

lxc-dave/fs/file_table.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/open.c~fix-reiserfs-oops fs/open.c
diff -puN fs/file_table.c~fix-reiserfs-oops fs/file_table.c
--- lxc/fs/file_table.c~fix-reiserfs-oops 2007-09-27 13:32:20.000000000 -0700
+++ lxc-dave/fs/file_table.c 2007-09-27 13:33:11.000000000 -0700
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ void fastcall __fput(struct file *file)
fops_put(file->f_op);
if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) {
put_write_access(inode);
- if (!special_file(inode->i_mode))
+ if (!special_file(inode->i_mode) && mnt)
mnt_drop_write(mnt);
}
put_pid(file->f_owner.pid);
diff -puN include/linux/mount.h~fix-reiserfs-oops include/linux/mount.h
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