linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 5/8] xfs: Protect xfs_file_aio_write() & xfs_setattr_size() with sb_start_write

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Date:	Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:50:48 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
CC:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
	Surbhi Palande <csurbhi@...il.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Ben Myers <bpm@....com>,
	Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] xfs: Protect xfs_file_aio_write() & xfs_setattr_size()
 with sb_start_write - sb_end_write

On 2/3/12 10:30 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 1/20/12 2:34 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>> Replace racy xfs_wait_for_freeze() check in xfs_file_aio_write() with
>> a reliable sb_start_write() - sb_end_write() locking.
> 
> Here's what I'm running with now.  With this and my modified
> patch6, I can pass xfstests 068 on xfs.

(and I dropped patch 4, with the lock rearrangement, FWIW - so
the only xfs patches I'm running are the 2 I resent).

-Eric

> -Eric
> 
> 
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> index 7e5bc87..f1cacdc 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> @@ -874,11 +874,11 @@ xfs_file_aio_write(
>  	if (ocount == 0)
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	xfs_wait_for_freeze(ip->i_mount, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
> -
>  	if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount))
>  		return -EIO;
>  
> +	sb_start_write(inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
> +
>  	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT))
>  		ret = xfs_file_dio_aio_write(iocb, iovp, nr_segs, pos, ocount);
>  	else
> @@ -895,6 +895,7 @@ xfs_file_aio_write(
>  		if (err < 0)
>  			ret = err;
>  	}
> +	sb_end_write(inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
>  
>  	return ret;
>  }
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
> index ab30253..7f3fa17 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
> @@ -773,6 +773,7 @@ xfs_setattr_size(
>  			ATTR_MTIME_SET|ATTR_KILL_SUID|ATTR_KILL_SGID|
>  			ATTR_KILL_PRIV|ATTR_TIMES_SET)) == 0);
>  
> +	sb_start_write(inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
>  	lock_flags = XFS_ILOCK_EXCL;
>  	if (!(flags & XFS_ATTR_NOLOCK))
>  		lock_flags |= XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL;
> @@ -792,6 +793,7 @@ xfs_setattr_size(
>  		 * Use the regular setattr path to update the timestamps.
>  		 */
>  		xfs_iunlock(ip, lock_flags);
> +		sb_end_write(inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
>  		iattr->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_SIZE;
>  		return xfs_setattr_nonsize(ip, iattr, 0);
>  	}
> @@ -938,6 +940,7 @@ xfs_setattr_size(
>  out_unlock:
>  	if (lock_flags)
>  		xfs_iunlock(ip, lock_flags);
> +	sb_end_write(inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
>  	return error;
>  
>  out_trans_abort:
> 
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