Re: [PATCH v2 0.1/13] xfs: release new dquot buffer on defer_finish error

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On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 02:19:58PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In commit efa092f3d4c6 "[XFS] Fixes a bug in the quota code when
> allocating a new dquot record", we allocate a new dquot block, grab a
> buffer to initialize it, and return the locked initialized dquot buffer
> to the caller for further in-core dquot initialization.  Unfortunately,
> if the _bmap_finish errored out, _qm_dqalloc would also error out
> without bothering to free the (locked) buffer.  Leaking a locked buffer
> caused hangs in generic/388 when quotas are enabled.
> 
> Furthermore, the _bmap_finish -> _defer_finish conversion in
> 310a75a3c6c747 ("xfs: change xfs_bmap_{finish,cancel,init,free} ->
> xfs_defer_*") failed to observe that the buffer was held going into
> _defer_finish and therefore failed to notice that the buffer lock is
> /not/ maintained afterwards.  Now that we can bjoin a buffer to a
> defer_ops, use this mechanism to ensure that the buffer stays locked
> across the _defer_finish.  Release the holds and locks on the buffer as
> appropriate if we have to error out.
> 
> There is a subtlety here for the caller in that the buffer emerges
> locked and held to the transaction, so if the _trans_commit fails we
> have to release the buffer explicitly.  This fixes the unmount hang
> in generic/388 when quotas are enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: return buffer with consistent hold state
> ---

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c |   48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c
> index a7daef9e16bf..7c71a14d0d49 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c
> @@ -362,32 +362,40 @@ xfs_qm_dqalloc(
>  			      dqp->dq_flags & XFS_DQ_ALLTYPES, bp);
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * xfs_defer_finish() may commit the current transaction and
> -	 * start a second transaction if the freelist is not empty.
> +	 * Hold the buffer and join it to the dfops so that we'll still own
> +	 * the buffer when we return to the caller.  The buffer disposal on
> +	 * error must be paid attention to very carefully, as it has been
> +	 * broken since commit efa092f3d4c6 "[XFS] Fixes a bug in the quota
> +	 * code when allocating a new dquot record" in 2005, and the later
> +	 * conversion to xfs_defer_ops in commit 310a75a3c6c747 failed to keep
> +	 * the buffer locked across the _defer_finish call.  We can now do
> +	 * this correctly with xfs_defer_bjoin.
>  	 *
> -	 * Since we still want to modify this buffer, we need to
> -	 * ensure that the buffer is not released on commit of
> -	 * the first transaction and ensure the buffer is added to the
> -	 * second transaction.
> +	 * Above, we allocated a disk block for the dquot information and
> +	 * used get_buf to initialize the dquot.  If the _defer_bjoin fails,
> +	 * the buffer is still locked to *tpp, so we must _bhold_release and
> +	 * then _trans_brelse the buffer.  If the _defer_finish fails, the old
> +	 * transaction is gone but the new buffer is not joined or held to any
> +	 * transaction, so we must _buf_relse it.
>  	 *
> -	 * If there is only one transaction then don't stop the buffer
> -	 * from being released when it commits later on.
> +	 * If everything succeeds, the caller of this function is returned a
> +	 * buffer that is locked and joined to the transaction.  The caller
> +	 * is responsible for unlocking any buffer passed back, either
> +	 * manually or by committing the transaction.
>  	 */
> -
> -	xfs_trans_bhold(tp, bp);
> -
> +	xfs_trans_bhold(*tpp, bp);
> +	error = xfs_defer_bjoin(&dfops, bp);
> +	if (error) {
> +		xfs_trans_bhold_release(*tpp, bp);
> +		xfs_trans_brelse(*tpp, bp);
> +		goto error1;
> +	}
>  	error = xfs_defer_finish(tpp, &dfops);
> -	if (error)
> +	if (error) {
> +		xfs_buf_relse(bp);
>  		goto error1;
> -
> -	/* Transaction was committed? */
> -	if (*tpp != tp) {
> -		tp = *tpp;
> -		xfs_trans_bjoin(tp, bp);
> -	} else {
> -		xfs_trans_bhold_release(tp, bp);
>  	}
> -
> +	xfs_trans_bhold_release(*tpp, bp);
>  	*O_bpp = bp;
>  	return 0;
>  
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