fix ext3 race with writeback

PATCH In review Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message May 19, 2002

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Andrew Morton

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2002-05-19 19:44 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 14/15 fix ext3 race with writeback

The ext3-no-steal patch has exposed a long-standing race in ext3. It has been there all the time in 2.4, but never triggered until some timing change in the ext3-no-steal patch exposed it. The race was not present in 2.2 because 2.2's bdflush runs inside lock_kernel().

The problem is that when ext3 is shuffling a buffer between journalling lists there is a small window where the buffer is marked BH_dirty. Aonther CPU can grab it, mark it clean and write it out. Then ext3 puts the buffer onto a list of buffers which are expected to be dirty, and gets confused later on when the buffer turns out to be clean.

The patch from Stephen records the expected dirtiness of the buffer in a local variable, so BH_dirty is not transiently set while ext3 shuffles.

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fs/jbd/transaction.c renamed from fs/jbd/transaction.c~sct-jbddirty +20 ~~-11~~

@@ -1941,6 +1941,8 @@ void __journal_file_buffer(struct journa
 			transaction_t *transaction, int jlist)
 {
 	struct journal_head **list = 0;
+	int was_dirty = 0;
+	struct buffer_head *bh = jh2bh(jh);
 
 	assert_spin_locked(&journal_datalist_lock);

@@ -1951,13 +1953,24 @@ void __journal_file_buffer(struct journa
 	J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction == transaction ||
 				jh->b_transaction == 0);
 
-	if (jh->b_transaction) {
-		if (jh->b_jlist == jlist)
-			return;
+	if (jh->b_transaction && jh->b_jlist == jlist)
+		return;
+	
+	/* The following list of buffer states needs to be consistent
+	 * with __jbd_unexpected_dirty_buffer()'s handling of dirty
+	 * state. */
+
+	if (jlist == BJ_Metadata || jlist == BJ_Reserved || 
+	    jlist == BJ_Shadow || jlist == BJ_Forget) {
+		if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh) ||
+		    test_clear_buffer_jbddirty(bh))
+			was_dirty = 1;
+	}
+
+	if (jh->b_transaction)
 		__journal_unfile_buffer(jh);
-	} else {
+	else
 		jh->b_transaction = transaction;
-	}
 
 	switch (jlist) {
 	case BJ_None:

@@ -1994,12 +2007,8 @@ void __journal_file_buffer(struct journa
 	__blist_add_buffer(list, jh);
 	jh->b_jlist = jlist;
 
-	if (jlist == BJ_Metadata || jlist == BJ_Reserved || 
-	    jlist == BJ_Shadow || jlist == BJ_Forget) {
-		if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(jh2bh(jh))) {
-			set_bit(BH_JBDDirty, &jh2bh(jh)->b_state);
-		}
-	}
+	if (was_dirty)
+		set_buffer_jbddirty(bh);
 }
 
 void journal_file_buffer(struct journal_head *jh,

include/linux/jbd.h renamed from include/linux/jbd.h~sct-jbddirty +1 -0

@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ enum jbd_state_bits {
 
 BUFFER_FNS(JBD, jbd)
 BUFFER_FNS(JBDDirty, jbddirty)
+TAS_BUFFER_FNS(JBDDirty, jbddirty)
 
 static inline struct buffer_head *jh2bh(struct journal_head *jh)
 {