We can't have references held on pages in the s_buddy_cache while we are
trying to truncate its pages and put the inode. All the pages must be
gone before we reach clear_inode. This can only be gauranteed if we
can prevent new users from grabbing references to s_buddy_cache's pages.
The original bug can be reproduced and the bug fix can be verified by:
while true; do mount -t ext4 /dev/ram0 /export/hda3/ram0; \
umount /export/hda3/ram0; done &
while true; do cat /proc/fs/ext4/ram0/mb_groups; done
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 5c315ab..6b0a57e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2517,6 +2517,9 @@ int ext4_mb_release(struct super_block *sb)
struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
struct kmem_cache *cachep = get_groupinfo_cache(sb->s_blocksize_bits);
+ if (sbi->s_proc)
+ remove_proc_entry("mb_groups", sbi->s_proc);
+
if (sbi->s_group_info) {
for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) {
grinfo = ext4_get_group_info(sb, i);
@@ -2564,8 +2567,6 @@ int ext4_mb_release(struct super_block *sb)
}
free_percpu(sbi->s_locality_groups);
- if (sbi->s_proc)
- remove_proc_entry("mb_groups", sbi->s_proc);
return 0;
}
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