+ nilfs2-fix-state-management-in-error-path-of-log-writing-function.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

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The patch titled
     Subject: nilfs2: fix state management in error path of log writing function
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     nilfs2-fix-state-management-in-error-path-of-log-writing-function.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/nilfs2-fix-state-management-in-error-path-of-log-writing-function.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: nilfs2: fix state management in error path of log writing function
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 08:07:42 +0900

After commit a694291a6211 ("nilfs2: separate wait function from
nilfs_segctor_write") was applied, the log writing function
nilfs_segctor_do_construct() was able to issue I/O requests continuously
even if user data blocks were split into multiple logs across segments,
but two potential flaws were introduced in its error handling.

First, if nilfs_segctor_begin_construction() fails while creating the
second or subsequent logs, the log writing function returns without
calling nilfs_segctor_abort_construction(), so the writeback flag set on
pages/folios will remain uncleared.  This causes page cache operations to
hang waiting for the writeback flag.  For example,
truncate_inode_pages_final(), which is called via nilfs_evict_inode() when
an inode is evicted from memory, will hang.

Second, the NILFS_I_COLLECTED flag set on normal inodes remain uncleared. 
As a result, if the next log write involves checkpoint creation, that's
fine, but if a partial log write is performed that does not, inodes with
NILFS_I_COLLECTED set are erroneously removed from the "sc_dirty_files"
list, and their data and b-tree blocks may not be written to the device,
corrupting the block mapping.

Fix these issues by correcting the jump destination of the error branch in
nilfs_segctor_do_construct() and the condition for calling
nilfs_redirty_inodes(), which clears the NILFS_I_COLLECTED flag.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240807230742.11151-1-konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: a694291a6211 ("nilfs2: separate wait function from nilfs_segctor_write")
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 fs/nilfs2/segment.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c~nilfs2-fix-state-management-in-error-path-of-log-writing-function
+++ a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
@@ -2056,7 +2056,7 @@ static int nilfs_segctor_do_construct(st
 
 		err = nilfs_segctor_begin_construction(sci, nilfs);
 		if (unlikely(err))
-			goto out;
+			goto failed;
 
 		/* Update time stamp */
 		sci->sc_seg_ctime = ktime_get_real_seconds();
@@ -2120,10 +2120,9 @@ static int nilfs_segctor_do_construct(st
 	return err;
 
  failed_to_write:
-	if (sci->sc_stage.flags & NILFS_CF_IFILE_STARTED)
-		nilfs_redirty_inodes(&sci->sc_dirty_files);
-
  failed:
+	if (mode == SC_LSEG_SR && nilfs_sc_cstage_get(sci) >= NILFS_ST_IFILE)
+		nilfs_redirty_inodes(&sci->sc_dirty_files);
 	if (nilfs_doing_gc())
 		nilfs_redirty_inodes(&sci->sc_gc_inodes);
 	nilfs_segctor_abort_construction(sci, nilfs, err);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx are

nilfs2-fix-state-management-in-error-path-of-log-writing-function.patch





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