In rare cases under heavy VMA preasure the ref count for fscache cookies becomes corrupt. In this case we decrement ref count even if fail before incrememnt the refcount. FS-Cache: Assertion failed bnode-eca5f9c6/syslog 0 > 0 is false ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/fscache/cookie.c:519! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Call Trace: [<ffffffffa01ba060>] __fscache_relinquish_cookie+0x50/0x220 [fscache] [<ffffffffa02d64ce>] ceph_fscache_unregister_inode_cookie+0x3e/0x50 [ceph] [<ffffffffa02ae1d3>] ceph_destroy_inode+0x33/0x200 [ceph] [<ffffffff811cf67e>] ? __fsnotify_inode_delete+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff811a9e0c>] destroy_inode+0x3c/0x70 [<ffffffff811a9f51>] evict+0x111/0x180 [<ffffffff811aa763>] iput+0x103/0x190 [<ffffffff811a5de8>] __dentry_kill+0x1c8/0x220 [<ffffffff811a5f31>] shrink_dentry_list+0xf1/0x250 [<ffffffff811a762c>] prune_dcache_sb+0x4c/0x60 [<ffffffff811930af>] super_cache_scan+0xff/0x170 [<ffffffff8113d7a0>] shrink_slab_node+0x140/0x2c0 [<ffffffff8113f2da>] shrink_slab+0x8a/0x130 [<ffffffff81142572>] balance_pgdat+0x3e2/0x5d0 [<ffffffff811428ca>] kswapd+0x16a/0x4a0 [<ffffffff810a43f0>] ? __wake_up_sync+0x20/0x20 [<ffffffff81142760>] ? balance_pgdat+0x5d0/0x5d0 [<ffffffff81083e09>] kthread+0xc9/0xe0 [<ffffffff81010000>] ? ftrace_raw_event_xen_mmu_release_ptpage+0x70/0x90 [<ffffffff81083d40>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xb0/0xb0 [<ffffffff8159f63c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [<ffffffff81083d40>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xb0/0xb0 RIP [<ffffffffa01b984b>] __fscache_disable_cookie+0x1db/0x210 [fscache] RSP <ffff8803bc85f9b8> ---[ end trace 254d0d7c74a01f25 ]--- --- fs/fscache/page.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fscache/page.c b/fs/fscache/page.c index 84e11aa..c83dd89 100644 --- a/fs/fscache/page.c +++ b/fs/fscache/page.c @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ int __fscache_attr_changed(struct fscache_cookie *cookie) { struct fscache_operation *op; struct fscache_object *object; - bool wake_cookie; + bool wake_cookie = false; _enter("%p", cookie); @@ -225,15 +225,16 @@ int __fscache_attr_changed(struct fscache_cookie *cookie) __fscache_use_cookie(cookie); if (fscache_submit_exclusive_op(object, op) < 0) - goto nobufs; + goto nobufs_dec; spin_unlock(&cookie->lock); fscache_stat(&fscache_n_attr_changed_ok); fscache_put_operation(op); _leave(" = 0"); return 0; -nobufs: +nobufs_dec: wake_cookie = __fscache_unuse_cookie(cookie); +nobufs: spin_unlock(&cookie->lock); kfree(op); if (wake_cookie) -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html