Btrfs: race free update of commit root for ro snapshots

This is a better solution for the problem addressed in the following
commit:

    Btrfs: update commit root on snapshot creation after orphan cleanup
    (3821f348889e506efbd268cc8149e0ebfa47c4e5)

The previous solution wasn't the best because of 2 reasons:

    1) It added another full transaction commit, which is more expensive
       than just swapping the commit root with the root;

    2) If a reboot happened after the first transaction commit (the one
       that creates the snapshot) and before the second transaction commit,
       then we would end up with the same problem if a send using that
       snapshot was requested before the first transaction commit after
       the reboot.

This change addresses those 2 issues. The second issue is addressed by
switching the commit root in the dentry lookup VFS callback, which is
also called by the snapshot/subvol creation ioctl and performs orphan
cleanup if needed. Like the vfs, the ioctl locks the parent inode too,
preventing race issues between a dentry lookup and snapshot creation.

Cc: Alex Lyakas <alex.btrfs@zadarastorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 47aceb4..845287c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -711,39 +711,6 @@ static int create_snapshot(struct btrfs_root *root, struct inode *dir,
 	if (ret)
 		goto fail;
 
-	ret = btrfs_orphan_cleanup(pending_snapshot->snap);
-	if (ret)
-		goto fail;
-
-	/*
-	 * If orphan cleanup did remove any orphans, it means the tree was
-	 * modified and therefore the commit root is not the same as the
-	 * current root anymore. This is a problem, because send uses the
-	 * commit root and therefore can see inode items that don't exist
-	 * in the current root anymore, and for example make calls to
-	 * btrfs_iget, which will do tree lookups based on the current root
-	 * and not on the commit root. Those lookups will fail, returning a
-	 * -ESTALE error, and making send fail with that error. So make sure
-	 * a send does not see any orphans we have just removed, and that it
-	 * will see the same inodes regardless of whether a transaction
-	 * commit happened before it started (meaning that the commit root
-	 * will be the same as the current root) or not.
-	 */
-	if (readonly && pending_snapshot->snap->node !=
-	    pending_snapshot->snap->commit_root) {
-		trans = btrfs_join_transaction(pending_snapshot->snap);
-		if (IS_ERR(trans) && PTR_ERR(trans) != -ENOENT) {
-			ret = PTR_ERR(trans);
-			goto fail;
-		}
-		if (!IS_ERR(trans)) {
-			ret = btrfs_commit_transaction(trans,
-						       pending_snapshot->snap);
-			if (ret)
-				goto fail;
-		}
-	}
-
 	inode = btrfs_lookup_dentry(dentry->d_parent->d_inode, dentry);
 	if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(inode);