linux-kernel - [PATCH] ext4: properly check for dirty state in ext4_inode_datasync

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Date:   Sat, 24 Oct 2020 16:01:15 +0200
From:   Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@...onical.com>
To:     Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: properly check for dirty state in
 ext4_inode_datasync_dirty()

ext4_inode_datasync_dirty() needs to return 'true' if the inode is
dirty, 'false' otherwise, but the logic seems to be incorrectly changed
by commit aa75f4d3daae ("ext4: main fast-commit commit path").

This introduces a problem with swap files that are always failing to be
activated, showing this error in dmesg:

 [   34.406479] swapon: file is not committed

Simple test case to reproduce the problem:

  # fallocate -l 8G swapfile
  # chmod 0600 swapfile
  # mkswap swapfile
  # swapon swapfile

Fix the logic to return the proper state of the inode.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201024131333.GA32124@xps-13-7390
Fixes: aa75f4d3daae ("ext4: main fast-commit commit path")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@...onical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 03c2253005f0..a890a17ab7e1 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3308,8 +3308,8 @@ static bool ext4_inode_datasync_dirty(struct inode *inode)
 	if (journal) {
 		if (jbd2_transaction_committed(journal,
 					EXT4_I(inode)->i_datasync_tid))
-			return true;
-		return atomic_read(&EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_fc_subtid) >=
+			return false;
+		return atomic_read(&EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_fc_subtid) <
 			EXT4_I(inode)->i_fc_committed_subtid;
 	}
 
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