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| author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2012-12-21 00:15:51 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-01-17 08:50:52 -0800 |
| commit | b5f0e251211531180989a32ba598968104562c84 (patch) | |
| tree | 28ee9069e0246583da9b796d4e2d5651d956428f /fs/ext4 | |
| parent | e307ec213a97ddc33ac6921ba37246548245d027 (diff) | |
jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()
commit d7961c7fa4d2e3c3f12be67e21ba8799b5a7238a upstream.
The following race is possible between start_this_handle() and someone
calling jbd2_journal_flush().
Process A Process B
start_this_handle().
if (journal->j_barrier_count) # false
if (!journal->j_running_transaction) { #true
read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
jbd2_journal_lock_updates()
jbd2_journal_flush()
write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
if (journal->j_running_transaction) {
# false
... wait for committing trans ...
write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
...
write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
if (!journal->j_running_transaction) { # true
jbd2_get_transaction(journal, new_transaction);
write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
goto repeat; # eventually blocks on j_barrier_count > 0
...
J_ASSERT(!journal->j_running_transaction);
# fails
We fix the race by rechecking j_barrier_count after reacquiring j_state_lock
in exclusive mode.
Reported-by: yjwsignal@empal.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
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