While commiting the transaction we set the i_flags of jbd2_inode to JI_COMMIT_RUNNING. This is needed to ensure that when we are commiting the transaction we don't release the inode via iput. In ext4_clear_inode we wait for the flag to be cleared before we release the inode. In ext4_new_inode we call iput for different failure cases before initializing the jbd2_inode. This cause the failure case to hang in iput as show below. Fix the same by initializing jbd2_inode early. [<c022d20e>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x49/0x4e [<c02cf430>] jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode+0x86/0xcc [<c022d0e4>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x43 [<c02b329b>] ext4_clear_inode+0x45/0x4a [<c02748f7>] clear_inode+0x5f/0xae [<c0274e8f>] generic_drop_inode+0x119/0x13a [<c0274071>] iput+0x4b/0x4e [<c02ab200>] ext4_new_inode+0xb29/0xb7a [<c0272761>] ? dput+0x19/0xdc [<c02cca5f>] ? jbd2_journal_start+0x8c/0xb9 [<c02b1cb4>] ext4_create+0x81/0xe7 [<c02b1c33>] ? ext4_create+0x0/0xe7 [<c026aa3c>] vfs_create+0x6c/0xdb [<c026cfd6>] do_filp_open+0x1a6/0x6b5 [<c026284e>] do_sys_open+0x40/0xb6 [<c0262906>] sys_open+0x1e/0x26 [<c0202be6>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 1 - fs/ext4/super.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c index 7823405..dc8bfc4 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -820,7 +820,6 @@ struct inode *ext4_new_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode * dir, int mode) ei->i_state = EXT4_STATE_NEW; ei->i_extra_isize = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_want_extra_isize; - jbd2_journal_init_jbd_inode(&ei->jinode, inode); ret = inode; if(DQUOT_ALLOC_INODE(inode)) { diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index e207555..fde1ae9 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ static struct inode *ext4_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb) ei->i_allocated_meta_blocks = 0; ei->i_delalloc_reserved_flag = 0; spin_lock_init(&(ei->i_block_reservation_lock)); + jbd2_journal_init_jbd_inode(&ei->jinode, &ei->vfs_inode); return &ei->vfs_inode; } -- 1.5.6.rc2.15.g457bb.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html