[ 45/82] ext4: remove mb_groups before tearing down the buddy_cache

Ben Hutchings
2012-06-08T05:15:48Z

From: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>

commit 95599968d19db175829fb580baa6b68939b320fb upstream.

We can't have references held on pages in the s_buddy_cache while we are
trying to truncate its pages and put the inode. All the pages must be
gone before we reach clear_inode. This can only be gauranteed if we
can prevent new users from grabbing references to s_buddy_cache's pages.

The original bug can be reproduced and the bug fix can be verified by:

while true; do mount -t ext4 /dev/ram0 /export/hda3/ram0; \
umount /export/hda3/ram0; done &

while true; do cat /proc/fs/ext4/ram0/mb_groups; done

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 3d9277c..1cd6994 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2517,6 +2517,9 @@ int ext4_mb_release(struct super_block *sb)
struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
struct kmem_cache *cachep = get_groupinfo_cache(sb->s_blocksize_bits);

+ if (sbi->s_proc)
+ remove_proc_entry("mb_groups", sbi->s_proc);
+
if (sbi->s_group_info) {
for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) {
grinfo = ext4_get_group_info(sb, i);
@@ -2564,8 +2567,6 @@ int ext4_mb_release(struct super_block *sb)
}

free_percpu(sbi->s_locality_groups);
- if (sbi->s_proc)
- remove_proc_entry("mb_groups", sbi->s_proc);

return 0;
}