FAILED: patch "[PATCH] xfs: fix mount hang during primary superblock recovery" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x efebe42d95fbba91dca6e3e32cb9e0612eb56de5
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025020458-showoff-enclosure-b449@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From efebe42d95fbba91dca6e3e32cb9e0612eb56de5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Long Li <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:05:44 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] xfs: fix mount hang during primary superblock recovery
failure

When mounting an image containing a log with sb modifications that require log replay, the mount process hang all the time and stack as follows:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/557/stack

  [<0>] xfs_buftarg_wait+0x31/0x70
  [<0>] xfs_buftarg_drain+0x54/0x350
  [<0>] xfs_mountfs+0x66e/0xe80
  [<0>] xfs_fs_fill_super+0x7f1/0xec0
  [<0>] get_tree_bdev_flags+0x186/0x280
  [<0>] get_tree_bdev+0x18/0x30
  [<0>] xfs_fs_get_tree+0x1d/0x30
  [<0>] vfs_get_tree+0x2d/0x110
  [<0>] path_mount+0xb59/0xfc0
  [<0>] do_mount+0x92/0xc0
  [<0>] __x64_sys_mount+0xc2/0x160
  [<0>] x64_sys_call+0x2de4/0x45c0
  [<0>] do_syscall_64+0xa7/0x240
  [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

During log recovery, while updating the in-memory superblock from the primary SB buffer, if an error is encountered, such as superblock corruption occurs or some other reasons, we will proceed to out_release and release the xfs_buf. However, this is insufficient because the xfs_buf's log item has already been initialized and the xfs_buf is held by the buffer log item as follows, the xfs_buf will not be released, causing the mount thread to hang.

xlog_recover_do_primary_sb_buffer
xlog_recover_do_reg_buffer
xlog_recover_validate_buf_type
xfs_buf_item_init(bp, mp)

The solution is straightforward, we simply need to allow it to be handled by the normal buffer write process. The filesystem will be shutdown before the submission of buffer_list in xlog_do_recovery_pass(), ensuring the correct release of the xfs_buf as follows:

  xlog_do_recovery_pass
    error = xlog_recover_process
      xlog_recover_process_data
        xlog_recover_process_ophdr
          xlog_recovery_process_trans
            ...
              xlog_recover_buf_commit_pass2
                error = xlog_recover_do_primary_sb_buffer
                  //Encounter error and return
                if (error)
                  goto out_writebuf
                ...
              out_writebuf:
                xfs_buf_delwri_queue(bp, buffer_list) //add bp to list
                return  error
            ...
    if (!list_empty(&buffer_list))
      if (error)
        xlog_force_shutdown(log, SHUTDOWN_LOG_IO_ERROR); //shutdown first
      xfs_buf_delwri_submit(&buffer_list); //submit buffers in list
        __xfs_buf_submit
          if (bp->b_mount->m_log && xlog_is_shutdown(bp->b_mount->m_log))
            xfs_buf_ioend_fail(bp)  //release bp correctly

index b05d5b81f642..05a2f6927c12 100644
@@ -1087,7 +1087,7 @@ xlog_recover_buf_commit_pass2(
 		error = xlog_recover_do_primary_sb_buffer(mp, item, bp, buf_f,
 				current_lsn);
 		if (error)
-			goto out_release;
+			goto out_writebuf;
 
 		/* Update the rt superblock if we have one. */
 		if (xfs_has_rtsb(mp) && mp->m_rtsb_bp) {

@@ -1104,6 +1104,15 @@ xlog_recover_buf_commit_pass2(
 		xlog_recover_do_reg_buffer(mp, item, bp, buf_f, current_lsn);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Buffer held by buf log item during 'normal' buffer recovery must
+	 * be committed through buffer I/O submission path to ensure proper
+	 * release. When error occurs during sb buffer recovery, log shutdown
+	 * will be done before submitting buffer list so that buffers can be
+	 * released correctly through ioend failure path.
+	 */
+out_writebuf:
+
 	/*
 	 * Perform delayed write on the buffer.  Asynchronous writes will be
 	 * slower when taking into account all the buffers to be flushed.