linux/fs/jbd2
Jan Kara d7961c7fa4 jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()
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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-12-21 00:15:51 -05:00
..
checkpoint.c jbd2: remove bh_state lock from checkpointing code 2012-03-13 22:45:25 -04:00
commit.c jbd2: fix assertion failure in commit code due to lacking transaction credits 2012-09-26 23:11:13 -04:00
journal.c ext4: remove ext4_handle_release_buffer() 2012-11-08 11:22:46 -05:00
Kconfig jbd2: Grab a reference to the crc32c driver if necessary 2012-05-27 07:50:56 -04:00
Makefile [PATCH] jbd2: rename jbd2 symbols to avoid duplication of jbd symbols 2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
recovery.c jbd2: check return value of blkdev_issue_flush() 2012-08-17 09:56:17 -04:00
revoke.c jbd2: checksum revocation blocks 2012-05-27 08:08:24 -04:00
transaction.c jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush() 2012-12-21 00:15:51 -05:00