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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2010-11-08 13:43:33 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2010-11-08 13:43:33 -0500
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ext4: handle writeback of inodes which are being freed
The following BUG can occur when an inode which is getting freed when it still has dirty pages outstanding, and it gets deleted (in this because it was the target of a rename). In ordered mode, we need to make sure the data pages are written just in case we crash before the rename (or unlink) is committed. If the inode is being freed then when we try to igrab the inode, we end up tripping the BUG_ON at fs/ext4/page-io.c:146. To solve this problem, we need to keep track of the number of io callbacks which are pending, and avoid destroying the inode until they have all been completed. That way we don't have to bump the inode count to keep the inode from being destroyed; an approach which doesn't work because the count could have already been dropped down to zero before the inode writeback has started (at which point we're not allowed to bump the count back up to 1, since it's already started getting freed). Thanks to Dave Chinner for suggesting this approach, which is also used by XFS. kernel BUG at /scratch_space/linux-2.6/fs/ext4/page-io.c:146! Call Trace: [<ffffffff811075b1>] ext4_bio_write_page+0x172/0x307 [<ffffffff811033a7>] mpage_da_submit_io+0x2f9/0x37b [<ffffffff811068d7>] mpage_da_map_and_submit+0x2cc/0x2e2 [<ffffffff811069b3>] mpage_add_bh_to_extent+0xc6/0xd5 [<ffffffff81106c66>] write_cache_pages_da+0x2a4/0x3ac [<ffffffff81107044>] ext4_da_writepages+0x2d6/0x44d [<ffffffff81087910>] do_writepages+0x1c/0x25 [<ffffffff810810a4>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x4b/0x4d [<ffffffff810815f5>] filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff81122a2e>] jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate+0x7b/0xa2 [<ffffffff8110615d>] ext4_evict_inode+0x57/0x24c [<ffffffff810c14a3>] evict+0x22/0x92 [<ffffffff810c1a3d>] iput+0x212/0x249 [<ffffffff810bdf16>] dentry_iput+0xa1/0xb9 [<ffffffff810bdf6b>] d_kill+0x3d/0x5d [<ffffffff810be613>] dput+0x13a/0x147 [<ffffffff810b990d>] sys_renameat+0x1b5/0x258 [<ffffffff81145f71>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x2d/0x4c [<ffffffff810b2950>] ? cp_new_stat+0xde/0xea [<ffffffff810b29c1>] ? sys_newlstat+0x2d/0x38 [<ffffffff810b99c6>] sys_rename+0x16/0x18 [<ffffffff81002a2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Tested-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
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