4.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> commit ab47036d8f7227361cad7894adee8e66ab6f95b2 upstream. Below backtrace info was reported by Yunlei He: Call Trace: [<ffffffff817a9395>] schedule+0x35/0x80 [<ffffffff817abb7d>] rwsem_down_read_failed+0xed/0x130 [<ffffffff813c12a8>] call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x18/0x [<ffffffff817ab1d0>] down_read+0x20/0x30 [<ffffffffa02a1a12>] f2fs_evict_inode+0x242/0x3a0 [f2fs] [<ffffffff81217057>] evict+0xc7/0x1a0 [<ffffffff81217cd6>] iput+0x196/0x200 [<ffffffff812134f9>] __dentry_kill+0x179/0x1e0 [<ffffffff812136f9>] dput+0x199/0x1f0 [<ffffffff811fe77b>] __fput+0x18b/0x220 [<ffffffff811fe84e>] ____fput+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff81097427>] task_work_run+0x77/0x90 [<ffffffff81074d62>] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x73/0xa2 [<ffffffff81003b7a>] do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x110 [<ffffffff817acf65>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 Call Trace: [<ffffffff817a9395>] schedule+0x35/0x80 [<ffffffff81216dc3>] __wait_on_freeing_inode+0xa3/0xd0 [<ffffffff810bc300>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x40/0x4 [<ffffffff8121771d>] find_inode_fast+0x7d/0xb0 [<ffffffff8121794a>] ilookup+0x6a/0xd0 [<ffffffffa02bc740>] sync_node_pages+0x210/0x650 [f2fs] [<ffffffff8122e690>] ? do_fsync+0x70/0x70 [<ffffffffa02b085e>] block_operations+0x9e/0xf0 [f2fs] [<ffffffff8137b795>] ? bio_endio+0x55/0x60 [<ffffffffa02b0942>] write_checkpoint+0x92/0xba0 [f2fs] [<ffffffff8117da57>] ? mempool_free_slab+0x17/0x20 [<ffffffff8117de8b>] ? mempool_free+0x2b/0x80 [<ffffffff8122e690>] ? do_fsync+0x70/0x70 [<ffffffffa02a53e3>] f2fs_sync_fs+0x63/0xd0 [f2fs] [<ffffffff8129630f>] ? ext4_sync_fs+0xbf/0x190 [<ffffffff8122e6b0>] sync_fs_one_sb+0x20/0x30 [<ffffffff812002e9>] iterate_supers+0xb9/0x110 [<ffffffff8122e7b5>] sys_sync+0x55/0x90 [<ffffffff81003ae9>] do_syscall_64+0x69/0x110 [<ffffffff817acf65>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 With following excuting serials, we will set inline_node in inode page after inode was unlinked, result in a deadloop described as below: 1. open file 2. write file 3. unlink file 4. write file 5. close file Thread A Thread B - dput - iput_final - inode->i_state |= I_FREEING - evict - f2fs_evict_inode - f2fs_sync_fs - write_checkpoint - block_operations - f2fs_lock_all (down_write(cp_rwsem)) - f2fs_lock_op (down_read(cp_rwsem)) - sync_node_pages - ilookup - find_inode_fast - __wait_on_freeing_inode (wait on I_FREEING clear) Here, we change to set inline_node flag only for linked inode for fixing. Reported-by: Yunlei He <heyunlei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/f2fs/data.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c @@ -1480,7 +1480,8 @@ restart: if (pos + len <= MAX_INLINE_DATA) { read_inline_data(page, ipage); set_inode_flag(F2FS_I(inode), FI_DATA_EXIST); - set_inline_node(ipage); + if (inode->i_nlink) + set_inline_node(ipage); } else { err = f2fs_convert_inline_page(&dn, page); if (err) -- 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