[PATCH 3.16 107/366] btrfs: Fix possible softlock on single core machines

Ben Hutchings
2018-10-14T23:18:53Z

From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>

commit 1e1c50a929bc9e49bc3f9935b92450d9e69f8158 upstream.

do_chunk_alloc implements a loop checking whether there is a pending
chunk allocation and if so causes the caller do loop. Generally this
loop is executed only once, however testing with btrfs/072 on a single
core vm machines uncovered an extreme case where the system could loop
indefinitely. This is due to a missing cond_resched when loop which
doesn't give a chance to the previous chunk allocator finish its job.

The fix is to simply add the missing cond_resched.

Fixes: 6d74119f1a3e ("Btrfs: avoid taking the chunk_mutex in do_chunk_alloc")
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -3969,6 +3969,7 @@ again:
if (wait_for_alloc) {
mutex_unlock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
wait_for_alloc = 0;
+ cond_resched();
goto again;
}