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ext4: fix deadlock during page writeback

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Commit 06bd3c36a7 (ext4: fix data exposure after a crash) uncovered a
deadlock in ext4_writepages() which was previously much harder to hit.
After this commit xfstest generic/130 reproduces the deadlock on small
filesystems.

The problem happens when ext4_do_update_inode() sets LARGE_FILE feature
and marks current inode handle as synchronous. That subsequently results
in ext4_journal_stop() called from ext4_writepages() to block waiting for
transaction commit while still holding page locks, reference to io_end,
and some prepared bio in mpd structure each of which can possibly block
transaction commit from completing and thus results in deadlock.

Fix the problem by releasing page locks, io_end reference, and
submitting prepared bio before calling ext4_journal_stop().

[ Changed to defer the call to ext4_journal_stop() only if the handle
  is synchronous.  --tytso ]

Reported-and-tested-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Jan Kara 2016-07-04 10:14:01 -04:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent fa96454069
commit 646caa9c8e
1 changed files with 26 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -2754,13 +2754,36 @@ retry:
done = true;
}
}
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
/*
* Caution: If the handle is synchronous,
* ext4_journal_stop() can wait for transaction commit
* to finish which may depend on writeback of pages to
* complete or on page lock to be released. In that
* case, we have to wait until after after we have
* submitted all the IO, released page locks we hold,
* and dropped io_end reference (for extent conversion
* to be able to complete) before stopping the handle.
*/
if (!ext4_handle_valid(handle) || handle->h_sync == 0) {
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
handle = NULL;
}
/* Submit prepared bio */
ext4_io_submit(&mpd.io_submit);
/* Unlock pages we didn't use */
mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write);
/* Drop our io_end reference we got from init */
ext4_put_io_end(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
/*
* Drop our io_end reference we got from init. We have
* to be careful and use deferred io_end finishing if
* we are still holding the transaction as we can
* release the last reference to io_end which may end
* up doing unwritten extent conversion.
*/
if (handle) {
ext4_put_io_end_defer(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
} else
ext4_put_io_end(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
if (ret == -ENOSPC && sbi->s_journal) {
/*