Patch "xfs: ordered buffer log items are never formatted" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xfs: ordered buffer log items are never formatted

to the 4.13-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xfs-ordered-buffer-log-items-are-never-formatted.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Sep 18 10:25:08 CEST 2017
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:06:20 -0700
Subject: xfs: ordered buffer log items are never formatted
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>, "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Message-ID: <20170917210631.10725-15-hch@lst.de>

From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

commit e9385cc6fb7edf23702de33a2dc82965d92d9392 upstream.

Ordered buffers pass through the logging infrastructure without ever
being written to the log. The way this works is that the ordered
buffer status is transferred to the log vector at commit time via
the ->iop_size() callback. In xlog_cil_insert_format_items(),
ordered log vectors bypass ->iop_format() processing altogether.

Therefore it is unnecessary for xfs_buf_item_format() to handle
ordered buffers. Remove the unnecessary logic and assert that an
ordered buffer never reaches this point.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c |   12 ++----------
 fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h    |    1 -
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
@@ -323,6 +323,8 @@ xfs_buf_item_format(
 	ASSERT((bip->bli_flags & XFS_BLI_STALE) ||
 	       (xfs_blft_from_flags(&bip->__bli_format) > XFS_BLFT_UNKNOWN_BUF
 	        && xfs_blft_from_flags(&bip->__bli_format) < XFS_BLFT_MAX_BUF));
+	ASSERT(!(bip->bli_flags & XFS_BLI_ORDERED) ||
+	       (bip->bli_flags & XFS_BLI_STALE));
 
 
 	/*
@@ -347,16 +349,6 @@ xfs_buf_item_format(
 		bip->bli_flags &= ~XFS_BLI_INODE_BUF;
 	}
 
-	if ((bip->bli_flags & (XFS_BLI_ORDERED|XFS_BLI_STALE)) ==
-							XFS_BLI_ORDERED) {
-		/*
-		 * The buffer has been logged just to order it.  It is not being
-		 * included in the transaction commit, so don't format it.
-		 */
-		trace_xfs_buf_item_format_ordered(bip);
-		return;
-	}
-
 	for (i = 0; i < bip->bli_format_count; i++) {
 		xfs_buf_item_format_segment(bip, lv, &vecp, offset,
 					    &bip->bli_formats[i]);
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h
@@ -517,7 +517,6 @@ DEFINE_BUF_ITEM_EVENT(xfs_buf_item_size)
 DEFINE_BUF_ITEM_EVENT(xfs_buf_item_size_ordered);
 DEFINE_BUF_ITEM_EVENT(xfs_buf_item_size_stale);
 DEFINE_BUF_ITEM_EVENT(xfs_buf_item_format);
-DEFINE_BUF_ITEM_EVENT(xfs_buf_item_format_ordered);
 DEFINE_BUF_ITEM_EVENT(xfs_buf_item_format_stale);
 DEFINE_BUF_ITEM_EVENT(xfs_buf_item_ordered);
 DEFINE_BUF_ITEM_EVENT(xfs_buf_item_pin);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@lst.de are

queue-4.13/xfs-open-code-xfs_buf_item_dirty.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-properly-retry-failed-inode-items-in-case-of-error-during-buffer-writeback.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-use-kmem_free-to-free-return-value-of-kmem_zalloc.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-add-infrastructure-needed-for-error-propagation-during-buffer-io-failure.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-don-t-set-v3-xflags-for-v2-inodes.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-toggle-readonly-state-around-xfs_log_mount_finish.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-fix-log-recovery-corruption-error-due-to-tail-overwrite.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-move-bmbt-owner-change-to-last-step-of-extent-swap.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-check-for-race-with-xfs_reclaim_inode-in-xfs_ifree_cluster.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-always-verify-the-log-tail-during-recovery.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-open-code-end_buffer_async_write-in-xfs_finish_page_writeback.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-relog-dirty-buffers-during-swapext-bmbt-owner-change.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-disable-per-inode-dax-flag.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-refactor-buffer-logging-into-buffer-dirtying-helper.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-fix-recovery-failure-when-log-record-header-wraps-log-end.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-skip-bmbt-block-ino-validation-during-owner-change.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-don-t-log-dirty-ranges-for-ordered-buffers.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-stop-searching-for-free-slots-in-an-inode-chunk-when-there-are-none.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-fix-incorrect-log_flushed-on-fsync.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-evict-all-inodes-involved-with-log-redo-item.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-write-unmount-record-for-ro-mounts.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-remove-unnecessary-dirty-bli-format-check-for-ordered-bufs.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-disallow-marking-previously-dirty-buffers-as-ordered.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-handle-efscorrupted-during-head-tail-verification.patch
queue-4.13/xfs-ordered-buffer-log-items-are-never-formatted.patch