3.6.11.4 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Theodore Ts'o [ Upstream commit d76a3a77113db020d9bb1e894822869410450bd9 ] In the case where an inode has a very stale transaction id (tid) in i_datasync_tid or i_sync_tid, it's possible that after a very large (2**31) number of transactions, that the tid number space might wrap, causing tid_geq()'s calculations to fail. Commit deeeaf13 "jbd2: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug", later modified by commit e7b04ac0 "jbd2: don't wake kjournald unnecessarily", attempted to fix this problem, but it only avoided kjournald spinning forever by fixing the logic in jbd2_log_start_commit(). Unfortunately, in the codepaths in fs/ext4/fsync.c and fs/ext4/inode.c that might call jbd2_log_start_commit() with a stale tid, those functions will subsequently call jbd2_log_wait_commit() with the same stale tid, and then wait for a very long time. To fix this, we replace the calls to jbd2_log_start_commit() and jbd2_log_wait_commit() with a call to a new function, jbd2_complete_transaction(), which will correctly handle stale tid's. As a bonus, jbd2_complete_transaction() will avoid locking j_state_lock for writing unless a commit needs to be started. This should have a small (but probably not measurable) improvement for ext4's scalability. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Reported-by: Ben Hutchings Reported-by: George Barnett Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- fs/ext4/fsync.c | 3 +-- fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 +-- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/jbd2.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c index 2a1dcea..3d28be5 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c +++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c @@ -253,8 +253,7 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync) if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER && !jbd2_trans_will_send_data_barrier(journal, commit_tid)) needs_barrier = true; - jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid); - ret = jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid); + ret = jbd2_complete_transaction(journal, commit_tid); if (needs_barrier) blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL); out: diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 5cf441c..0113b16 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -216,8 +216,7 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal; tid_t commit_tid = EXT4_I(inode)->i_datasync_tid; - jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid); - jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid); + jbd2_complete_transaction(journal, commit_tid); filemap_write_and_wait(&inode->i_data); } truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0); diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c index 484b8d1..b2d3cbe 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -699,6 +699,37 @@ int jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid) } /* + * When this function returns the transaction corresponding to tid + * will be completed. If the transaction has currently running, start + * committing that transaction before waiting for it to complete. If + * the transaction id is stale, it is by definition already completed, + * so just return SUCCESS. + */ +int jbd2_complete_transaction(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid) +{ + int need_to_wait = 1; + + read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); + if (journal->j_running_transaction && + journal->j_running_transaction->t_tid == tid) { + if (journal->j_commit_request != tid) { + /* transaction not yet started, so request it */ + read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); + jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, tid); + goto wait_commit; + } + } else if (!(journal->j_committing_transaction && + journal->j_committing_transaction->t_tid == tid)) + need_to_wait = 0; + read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); + if (!need_to_wait) + return 0; +wait_commit: + return jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, tid); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(jbd2_complete_transaction); + +/* * Log buffer allocation routines: */ diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h index 3efc43f..deee02a 100644 --- a/include/linux/jbd2.h +++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h @@ -1211,6 +1211,7 @@ int __jbd2_log_start_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid); int jbd2_journal_start_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t *tid); int jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested(journal_t *journal); int jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid); +int jbd2_complete_transaction(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid); int jbd2_log_do_checkpoint(journal_t *journal); int jbd2_trans_will_send_data_barrier(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid); -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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/