linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix file system hang due to corrupt jinode values.

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:45:03 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	cmm@...ibm.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix file system hang due to corrupt jinode values.

> While commiting the transaction we set the i_flags
> of jbd2_inode to JI_COMMIT_RUNNING. This is needed to ensure
> that when we are commiting the transaction we don't release
> the inode via iput. In ext4_clear_inode we wait for the
> flag to be cleared before we release the inode.
> 
> In ext4_new_inode we call iput for different failure cases
> before initializing the jbd2_inode. This cause the failure
> case to hang in iput as show below. Fix the same by initializing
> jbd2_inode early.
> 
>  [<c022d20e>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x49/0x4e
>  [<c02cf430>] jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode+0x86/0xcc
>  [<c022d0e4>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x43
>  [<c02b329b>] ext4_clear_inode+0x45/0x4a
>  [<c02748f7>] clear_inode+0x5f/0xae
>  [<c0274e8f>] generic_drop_inode+0x119/0x13a
>  [<c0274071>] iput+0x4b/0x4e
>  [<c02ab200>] ext4_new_inode+0xb29/0xb7a
>  [<c0272761>] ? dput+0x19/0xdc
>  [<c02cca5f>] ? jbd2_journal_start+0x8c/0xb9
>  [<c02b1cb4>] ext4_create+0x81/0xe7
>  [<c02b1c33>] ? ext4_create+0x0/0xe7
>  [<c026aa3c>] vfs_create+0x6c/0xdb
>  [<c026cfd6>] do_filp_open+0x1a6/0x6b5
>  [<c026284e>] do_sys_open+0x40/0xb6
>  [<c0262906>] sys_open+0x1e/0x26
>  [<c0202be6>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
  Oh yes, thanks for fixing this. I think there is place in
super.c which also calls jbd2_journal_init_jbd_inode() and which doesn't
need to call it when you do so already in alloc_inode().

									Honza
> ---
>  fs/ext4/ialloc.c |    1 -
>  fs/ext4/super.c  |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
> index 7823405..dc8bfc4 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
> @@ -820,7 +820,6 @@ struct inode *ext4_new_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode * dir, int mode)
>  	ei->i_state = EXT4_STATE_NEW;
>  
>  	ei->i_extra_isize = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_want_extra_isize;
> -	jbd2_journal_init_jbd_inode(&ei->jinode, inode);
>  
>  	ret = inode;
>  	if(DQUOT_ALLOC_INODE(inode)) {
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index e207555..fde1ae9 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ static struct inode *ext4_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
>  	ei->i_allocated_meta_blocks = 0;
>  	ei->i_delalloc_reserved_flag = 0;
>  	spin_lock_init(&(ei->i_block_reservation_lock));
> +	jbd2_journal_init_jbd_inode(&ei->jinode, &ei->vfs_inode);
>  	return &ei->vfs_inode;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.5.6.rc2.15.g457bb.dirty
> 
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Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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