This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled jbd2: fix checkpoint list cleanup to the 4.3-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: jbd2-fix-checkpoint-list-cleanup.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 33d14975e5ac469963d5d63856b61698ad0bff07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:35:09 -0400 Subject: jbd2: fix checkpoint list cleanup From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> commit 33d14975e5ac469963d5d63856b61698ad0bff07 upstream. Unlike comments and expectation of callers journal_clean_one_cp_list() returned 1 not only if it freed the transaction but also if it freed some buffers in the transaction. That could make __jbd2_journal_clean_checkpoint_list() skip processing t_checkpoint_io_list and continue with processing the next transaction. This is mostly a cosmetic issue since the only result is we can sometimes free less memory than we could. But it's still worth fixing. Fix journal_clean_one_cp_list() to return 1 only if the transaction was really freed. Fixes: 50849db32a9f529235a84bcc84a6b8e631b1d0ec Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c @@ -427,7 +427,6 @@ static int journal_clean_one_cp_list(str struct journal_head *last_jh; struct journal_head *next_jh = jh; int ret; - int freed = 0; if (!jh) return 0; @@ -441,10 +440,9 @@ static int journal_clean_one_cp_list(str else ret = __jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint(jh) + 1; if (!ret) - return freed; + return 0; if (ret == 2) return 1; - freed = 1; /* * This function only frees up some memory * if possible so we dont have an obligation @@ -452,10 +450,10 @@ static int journal_clean_one_cp_list(str * requested: */ if (need_resched()) - return freed; + return 0; } while (jh != last_jh); - return freed; + return 0; } /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.3/jbd2-fix-checkpoint-list-cleanup.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