linux-kernel - Re: writeback: bad unlock balance detected in 3.5-rc1

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Message-ID: <CA+icZUVC86sBLNND08rNn6xhWqagfWdM7WvrvG+fcW+FHoFjbw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:51:48 +0200
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...glemail.com>
To:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: writeback: bad unlock balance detected in 3.5-rc1

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:07:36PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>> On Fri 08-06-12 10:36:13, Ted Tso wrote:
>> >
>> > I can reproduce this fairly easily by using ext4 w/o a journal, running
>> > under KVM with 1024megs memory, with fsstress (xfstests #13):
>
> Good catch, thanks!
>
>>   Argh, I wonder how come I didn't hit this. Does attached patch fix the
>> problem?
>
>> diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
>> index 8d2fb8c..41a3ccf 100644
>> --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
>> +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
>> @@ -664,6 +664,7 @@ static long writeback_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
>>                       /* Wait for I_SYNC. This function drops i_lock... */
>>                       inode_sleep_on_writeback(inode);
>>                       /* Inode may be gone, start again */
>> +                     spin_lock(&wb->list_lock);
>>                       continue;
>>               }
>
> That looks like the fix. So I pushed it to writeback-for-next.
> Thanks for the quick fixing!
>

s/writeback-for-next/writeback-for-linus ?

- Sedat -

> I'm yet to setup and run xfstests regularly, so as to catch such kind
> of problems earlier in future.
>
> Thanks,
> Fengguang
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