This critical regression fix was merged just after 2.6.37-rc6 was
released.
If you are trying nilfs in the 2.6.37 RC versions, please stop to use
it until 2.6.37-rc7 will be released.
Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:05:41 +0900, Ryusuke Konishi wrote:
> On 2.6.37-rc1, garbage collection ioctl of nilfs was broken due to the
> commit 263d90cefc7d82a0 ("nilfs2: remove own inode hash used for GC"),
> and are leading to filesystem corruption.
>
> The patch doesn't queue gc-inodes for log writer if they are reused
> through the vfs inode cache. Here, gc-inode is the inode which
> buffers blocks to be relocated on GC. That patch queues gc-inodes in
> nilfs_init_gcinode() function, but this function is not called when
> they don't have I_NEW flag. Thus, some of live blocks are wrongly
> overrode without being moved to new logs.
>
> This resolves the problem by moving the gc-inode queueing to an outer
> function to ensure it's done right.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c | 9 ---------
> fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c b/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c
> index 33ad25d..caf9a6a 100644
> --- a/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c
> +++ b/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c
> @@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ int nilfs_gccache_wait_and_mark_dirty(struct buffer_head *bh)
> int nilfs_init_gcinode(struct inode *inode)
> {
> struct nilfs_inode_info *ii = NILFS_I(inode);
> - struct the_nilfs *nilfs = NILFS_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_nilfs;
>
> inode->i_mode = S_IFREG;
> mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_NOFS);
> @@ -186,14 +185,6 @@ int nilfs_init_gcinode(struct inode *inode)
> ii->i_flags = 0;
> nilfs_bmap_init_gc(ii->i_bmap);
>
> - /*
> - * Add the inode to GC inode list. Garbage Collection
> - * is serialized and no two processes manipulate the
> - * list simultaneously.
> - */
> - igrab(inode);
> - list_add(&NILFS_I(inode)->i_dirty, &nilfs->ns_gc_inodes);
> -
> return 0;
> }
>
> diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c b/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
> index e00d945..b185e93 100644
> --- a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
> @@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_move_blocks(struct super_block *sb,
> struct nilfs_argv *argv, void *buf)
> {
> size_t nmembs = argv->v_nmembs;
> + struct the_nilfs *nilfs = NILFS_SB(sb)->s_nilfs;
> struct inode *inode;
> struct nilfs_vdesc *vdesc;
> struct buffer_head *bh, *n;
> @@ -353,6 +354,17 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_move_blocks(struct super_block *sb,
> ret = PTR_ERR(inode);
> goto failed;
> }
> + if (list_empty(&NILFS_I(inode)->i_dirty)) {
> + /*
> + * Add the inode to GC inode list. Garbage Collection
> + * is serialized and no two processes manipulate the
> + * list simultaneously.
> + */
> + igrab(inode);
> + list_add(&NILFS_I(inode)->i_dirty,
> + &nilfs->ns_gc_inodes);
> + }
> +
> do {
> ret = nilfs_ioctl_move_inode_block(inode, vdesc,
> &buffers);
> --
> 1.7.3.2
>
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