linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: fix data=journal fast mount/umount hang

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Message-Id: <1363783057-3874-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:37:37 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix data=journal fast mount/umount hang

In data=journal mode, if we unmount the file system before a
transaction has a chance to complete, when the journal inode is being
evicted, we can end up calling into jbd2_log_wait_commit() for the
current transaction.

Arguably we should adjust ext4_should_journal_data() to return FALSE
for the journal inode, but the only place it matters is
ext4_evict_inode(), and so it's to save a bit of CPU time, and to make
the patch much more obviously correct by inspection(tm), we'll fix it
by explicitly not trying to waiting for a journal commit when we are
evicting the journal inode, since it's guaranteed to never succeed in
this case.

This can be easily replicated via:

     mount -t ext4 -o data=journal /dev/vdb /vdb ; umount /vdb

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /usr/projects/linux/ext4/fs/jbd2/journal.c:542 __jbd2_log_start_commit+0xba/0xcd()
Hardware name: Bochs
JBD2: bad log_start_commit: 3005630206 3005630206 0 0
Modules linked in:
Pid: 2909, comm: umount Not tainted 3.8.0-rc3 #1020
Call Trace:
 [<c015c0ef>] warn_slowpath_common+0x68/0x7d
 [<c02b7e7d>] ? __jbd2_log_start_commit+0xba/0xcd
 [<c015c177>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2b/0x2f
 [<c02b7e7d>] __jbd2_log_start_commit+0xba/0xcd
 [<c02b8075>] jbd2_log_start_commit+0x24/0x34
 [<c0279ed5>] ext4_evict_inode+0x71/0x2e3
 [<c021f0ec>] evict+0x94/0x135
 [<c021f9aa>] iput+0x10a/0x110
 [<c02b7836>] jbd2_journal_destroy+0x190/0x1ce
 [<c0175284>] ? bit_waitqueue+0x50/0x50
 [<c028d23f>] ext4_put_super+0x52/0x294
 [<c020efe3>] generic_shutdown_super+0x48/0xb4
 [<c020f071>] kill_block_super+0x22/0x60
 [<c020f3e0>] deactivate_locked_super+0x22/0x49
 [<c020f5d6>] deactivate_super+0x30/0x33
 [<c0222795>] mntput_no_expire+0x107/0x10c
 [<c02233a7>] sys_umount+0x2cf/0x2e0
 [<c02233ca>] sys_oldumount+0x12/0x14
 [<c08096b8>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
---[ end trace 6a954cc790501c1f ]---
jbd2_log_wait_commit: error: j_commit_request=-1289337090, tid=0

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 15e0da1..0a6434c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 		 * don't use page cache.
 		 */
 		if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode) &&
-		    (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))) {
+		    (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) &&
+		    inode->i_ino != EXT4_JOURNAL_INO) {
 			journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
 			tid_t commit_tid = EXT4_I(inode)->i_datasync_tid;
 
-- 
1.7.12.rc0.22.gcdd159b

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