This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
btrfs: use rcu_barrier() to wait for bdev puts at unmount
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
btrfs-use-rcu_barrier-to-wait-for-bdev-puts-at-unmount.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From bc178622d40d87e75abc131007342429c9b03351 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 15:18:39 +0000
Subject: btrfs: use rcu_barrier() to wait for bdev puts at unmount
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit bc178622d40d87e75abc131007342429c9b03351 upstream.
Doing this would reliably fail with -EBUSY for me:
# mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/scratch; umount /mnt/scratch; mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdb2
...
unable to open /dev/sdb2: Device or resource busy
because mkfs.btrfs tries to open the device O_EXCL, and somebody still has it.
Using systemtap to track bdev gets & puts shows a kworker thread doing a
blkdev put after mkfs attempts a get; this is left over from the unmount
path:
btrfs_close_devices
__btrfs_close_devices
call_rcu(&device->rcu, free_device);
free_device
INIT_WORK(&device->rcu_work, __free_device);
schedule_work(&device->rcu_work);
so unmount might complete before __free_device fires & does its blkdev_put.
Adding an rcu_barrier() to btrfs_close_devices() causes unmount to wait
until all blkdev_put()s are done, and the device is truly free once
unmount completes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -681,6 +681,12 @@ int btrfs_close_devices(struct btrfs_fs_
__btrfs_close_devices(fs_devices);
free_fs_devices(fs_devices);
}
+ /*
+ * Wait for rcu kworkers under __btrfs_close_devices
+ * to finish all blkdev_puts so device is really
+ * free when umount is done.
+ */
+ rcu_barrier();
return ret;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/btrfs-use-rcu_barrier-to-wait-for-bdev-puts-at-unmount.patch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html