2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ During truncate we are sometimes forced to start a new transaction as the amount of blocks to be journaled is both quite large and hard to predict. So far we restarted a transaction while holding i_data_sem and that violates lock ordering because i_data_sem ranks below a transaction start (and it can lead to a real deadlock with ext4_get_blocks() mapping blocks in some page while having a transaction open). (cherry picked from commit 487caeef9fc08c0565e082c40a8aaf58dad92bbb) We fix the problem by dropping the i_data_sem before restarting the transaction and acquire it afterwards. It's slightly subtle that this works: 1) By the time ext4_truncate() is called, all the page cache for the truncated part of the file is dropped so get_block() should not be called on it (we only have to invalidate extent cache after we reacquire i_data_sem because some extent from not-truncated part could extend also into the part we are going to truncate). 2) Writes, migrate or defrag hold i_mutex so they are stopped for all the time of the truncate. This bug has been found and analyzed by Theodore Tso . Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 1 + fs/ext4/extents.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- fs/ext4/inode.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++---- 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -1370,6 +1370,7 @@ extern int ext4_change_inode_journal_fla extern int ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *, struct ext4_iloc *); extern int ext4_can_truncate(struct inode *inode); extern void ext4_truncate(struct inode *); +extern int ext4_truncate_restart_trans(handle_t *, struct inode *, int nblocks); extern void ext4_set_inode_flags(struct inode *); extern void ext4_get_inode_flags(struct ext4_inode_info *); extern int ext4_alloc_da_blocks(struct inode *inode); --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ static void ext4_idx_store_pblock(struct ix->ei_leaf_hi = cpu_to_le16((unsigned long) ((pb >> 31) >> 1) & 0xffff); } -static int ext4_ext_journal_restart(handle_t *handle, int needed) +static int ext4_ext_truncate_extend_restart(handle_t *handle, + struct inode *inode, + int needed) { int err; @@ -104,7 +106,14 @@ static int ext4_ext_journal_restart(hand err = ext4_journal_extend(handle, needed); if (err <= 0) return err; - return ext4_journal_restart(handle, needed); + err = ext4_truncate_restart_trans(handle, inode, needed); + /* + * We have dropped i_data_sem so someone might have cached again + * an extent we are going to truncate. + */ + ext4_ext_invalidate_cache(inode); + + return err; } /* @@ -2138,7 +2147,7 @@ ext4_ext_rm_leaf(handle_t *handle, struc } credits += 2 * EXT4_QUOTA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb); - err = ext4_ext_journal_restart(handle, credits); + err = ext4_ext_truncate_extend_restart(handle, inode, credits); if (err) goto out; --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -192,11 +192,24 @@ static int try_to_extend_transaction(han * so before we call here everything must be consistently dirtied against * this transaction. */ -static int ext4_journal_test_restart(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode) + int ext4_truncate_restart_trans(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, + int nblocks) { + int ret; + + /* + * Drop i_data_sem to avoid deadlock with ext4_get_blocks At this + * moment, get_block can be called only for blocks inside i_size since + * page cache has been already dropped and writes are blocked by + * i_mutex. So we can safely drop the i_data_sem here. + */ BUG_ON(EXT4_JOURNAL(inode) == NULL); jbd_debug(2, "restarting handle %p\n", handle); - return ext4_journal_restart(handle, blocks_for_truncate(inode)); + up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem); + ret = ext4_journal_restart(handle, blocks_for_truncate(inode)); + down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem); + + return ret; } /* @@ -3659,7 +3672,8 @@ static void ext4_clear_blocks(handle_t * ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, bh); } ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); - ext4_journal_test_restart(handle, inode); + ext4_truncate_restart_trans(handle, inode, + blocks_for_truncate(inode)); if (bh) { BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "retaking write access"); ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh); @@ -3870,7 +3884,8 @@ static void ext4_free_branches(handle_t return; if (try_to_extend_transaction(handle, inode)) { ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); - ext4_journal_test_restart(handle, inode); + ext4_truncate_restart_trans(handle, inode, + blocks_for_truncate(inode)); } ext4_free_blocks(handle, inode, nr, 1, 1); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/