FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Btrfs: fix btrfs_write_inode vs delayed iput deadlock" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

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greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:46:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: fix btrfs_write_inode vs delayed iput deadlock

We recently ran into the following deadlock involving btrfs_write_inode():

[  +0.005066]  __schedule+0x38e/0x8c0
[  +0.007144]  schedule+0x36/0x80
[  +0.006447]  bit_wait+0x11/0x60
[  +0.006446]  __wait_on_bit+0xbe/0x110
[  +0.007487]  ? bit_wait_io+0x60/0x60
[  +0.007319]  __inode_wait_for_writeback+0x96/0xc0
[  +0.009568]  ? autoremove_wake_function+0x40/0x40
[  +0.009565]  inode_wait_for_writeback+0x21/0x30
[  +0.009224]  evict+0xb0/0x190
[  +0.006099]  iput+0x1a8/0x210
[  +0.006103]  btrfs_run_delayed_iputs+0x73/0xc0
[  +0.009047]  btrfs_commit_transaction+0x799/0x8c0
[  +0.009567]  btrfs_write_inode+0x81/0xb0
[  +0.008008]  __writeback_single_inode+0x267/0x320
[  +0.009569]  writeback_sb_inodes+0x25b/0x4e0
[  +0.008702]  wb_writeback+0x102/0x2d0
[  +0.007487]  wb_workfn+0xa4/0x310
[  +0.006794]  ? wb_workfn+0xa4/0x310
[  +0.007143]  process_one_work+0x150/0x410
[  +0.008179]  worker_thread+0x6d/0x520
[  +0.007490]  kthread+0x12c/0x160
[  +0.006620]  ? put_pwq_unlocked+0x80/0x80
[  +0.008185]  ? kthread_park+0xa0/0xa0
[  +0.007484]  ? do_syscall_64+0x53/0x150
[  +0.007837]  ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40

Writeback calls:

btrfs_write_inode
btrfs_commit_transaction
btrfs_run_delayed_iputs

If iput() is called on that same inode, evict() will wait for writeback forever.

btrfs_write_inode() was originally added way back in 4730a4bc5bf3 ("btrfs_dirty_inode") to support O_SYNC writes. However, ->write_inode() hasn't been used for O_SYNC since 148f948ba877 ("vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode"), so btrfs_write_inode() is actually unnecessary (and leads to a bunch of unnecessary commits). Get rid of it, which also gets rid of the deadlock.

index 4955e04da4c8..472457795486 100644
@@ -6021,32 +6021,6 @@ static int btrfs_real_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-int btrfs_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
-{
-	struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(inode)->root;
-	struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans;
-	int ret = 0;
-	bool nolock = false;
-
-	if (test_bit(BTRFS_INODE_DUMMY, &BTRFS_I(inode)->runtime_flags))
-		return 0;
-
-	if (btrfs_fs_closing(root->fs_info) &&
-			btrfs_is_free_space_inode(BTRFS_I(inode)))
-		nolock = true;
-
-	if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) {
-		if (nolock)
-			trans = btrfs_join_transaction_nolock(root);
-		else
-			trans = btrfs_join_transaction(root);
-		if (IS_ERR(trans))
-			return PTR_ERR(trans);
-		ret = btrfs_commit_transaction(trans);
-	}
-	return ret;
-}
-
 /*
  * This is somewhat expensive, updating the tree every time the
  * inode changes.  But, it is most likely to find the inode in cache.

index efe8b03ce380..67de3c0fc85b 100644
@@ -2344,7 +2344,6 @@ static const struct super_operations btrfs_super_ops = {
 	.sync_fs	= btrfs_sync_fs,
 	.show_options	= btrfs_show_options,
 	.show_devname	= btrfs_show_devname,
-	.write_inode	= btrfs_write_inode,
 	.alloc_inode	= btrfs_alloc_inode,
 	.destroy_inode	= btrfs_destroy_inode,
 	.statfs		= btrfs_statfs,