linux-ext4 - [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Annotate data race in jbd2_journal_dirty

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Message-Id: <20210406161804.20150-2-jack@suse.cz>
Date:   Tue,  6 Apr 2021 18:18:00 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Hao Sun <sunhao.th@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Annotate data race in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()

Assertion checks in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() are known to be racy
but we don't want to be grabbing locks just for them.  We thus recheck
them under b_state_lock only if it looks like they would fail. Annotate
the checks with data_race().

Reported-by: Hao Sun <sunhao.th@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
 fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index 398d1d9209e2..e8fc45fd751f 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -1479,8 +1479,8 @@ int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
 	 * crucial to catch bugs so let's do a reliable check until the
 	 * lockless handling is fully proven.
 	 */
-	if (jh->b_transaction != transaction &&
-	    jh->b_next_transaction != transaction) {
+	if (data_race(jh->b_transaction != transaction &&
+	    jh->b_next_transaction != transaction)) {
 		spin_lock(&jh->b_state_lock);
 		J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction == transaction ||
 				jh->b_next_transaction == transaction);
@@ -1488,8 +1488,8 @@ int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
 	}
 	if (jh->b_modified == 1) {
 		/* If it's in our transaction it must be in BJ_Metadata list. */
-		if (jh->b_transaction == transaction &&
-		    jh->b_jlist != BJ_Metadata) {
+		if (data_race(jh->b_transaction == transaction &&
+		    jh->b_jlist != BJ_Metadata)) {
 			spin_lock(&jh->b_state_lock);
 			if (jh->b_transaction == transaction &&
 			    jh->b_jlist != BJ_Metadata)
-- 
2.26.2