linux-kernel - [PATCH] f2fs: fix to clear FI_VOLATILE

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Date:   Mon,  4 Jun 2018 23:20:51 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     jaegeuk@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: fix to clear FI_VOLATILE_FILE correctly

From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>

Thread A			Thread B
- f2fs_release_file
 - clear_inode_flag(FI_VOLATILE_FILE)
				- wb_writeback
				 - writeback_sb_inodes
				  - __writeback_single_inode
				   - do_writepages
				    - f2fs_write_data_pages
				     - __write_data_page
				     all volatile file's pages
				     are writebacked to storage
 - set_inode_flag(FI_DROP_CACHE)
 - filemap_fdatawrite

There is a hole that mm can flush all dirty pages of volatile file as
inode is not tagged with both FI_VOLATILE_FILE and FI_DROP_CACHE flags,
we should never writeback the page #0 and also it's unneeded to writeback
other pages.

This patch adjusts to relocate clear_inode_flag(FI_VOLATILE_FILE), so that
FI_VOLATILE_FILE flag can be remained before all dirty pages were dropped
to avoid issue.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
---
 fs/f2fs/file.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index 16fd50abbf40..13f2f6845e87 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -1564,11 +1564,11 @@ static int f2fs_release_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode))
 		f2fs_drop_inmem_pages(inode);
 	if (f2fs_is_volatile_file(inode)) {
-		clear_inode_flag(inode, FI_VOLATILE_FILE);
-		stat_dec_volatile_write(inode);
 		set_inode_flag(inode, FI_DROP_CACHE);
 		filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping);
 		clear_inode_flag(inode, FI_DROP_CACHE);
+		clear_inode_flag(inode, FI_VOLATILE_FILE);
+		stat_dec_volatile_write(inode);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.16.2.17.g38e79b1fd