This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
jfs: fix a couple races
to the 3.4-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:
jfs-fix-a-couple-races.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 73aaa22d5ffb2630456bac2f9a4ed9b81d0d7271 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 11:08:38 -0500
Subject: jfs: fix a couple races
From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 73aaa22d5ffb2630456bac2f9a4ed9b81d0d7271 upstream.
This patch fixes races uncovered by xfstests testcase 068.
One race is the result of jfs_sync() trying to write a sync point to the
journal after it has been frozen (or possibly in the process). Since
freezing sync's the journal, there is no need to write a sync point so
we simply want to return.
The second involves jfs_write_inode() being called on a deleted inode.
It calls jfs_flush_journal which is held up by the jfs_commit thread
doing the final iput on the same deleted inode, which itself is
waiting for the I_SYNC flag to be cleared. jfs_write_inode need not
do anything when i_nlink is zero, which is the easy fix.
Reported-by: Michael L. Semon <mlsemon35@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/jfs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/jfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/inode.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ int jfs_write_inode(struct inode *inode,
{
int wait = wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL;
- if (test_cflag(COMMIT_Nolink, inode))
+ if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
return 0;
/*
* If COMMIT_DIRTY is not set, the inode isn't really dirty.
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c
@@ -1058,7 +1058,8 @@ static int lmLogSync(struct jfs_log * lo
*/
void jfs_syncpt(struct jfs_log *log, int hard_sync)
{ LOG_LOCK(log);
- lmLogSync(log, hard_sync);
+ if (!test_bit(log_QUIESCE, &log->flag))
+ lmLogSync(log, hard_sync);
LOG_UNLOCK(log);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/jfs-fix-a-couple-races.patch
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