This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: fix deadlock during page writeback
to the 3.14-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:
ext4-fix-deadlock-during-page-writeback.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 646caa9c8e196880b41cd3e3d33a2ebc752bdb85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 10:14:01 -0400
Subject: ext4: fix deadlock during page writeback
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
commit 646caa9c8e196880b41cd3e3d33a2ebc752bdb85 upstream.
Commit 06bd3c36a733 (ext4: fix data exposure after a crash) uncovered a
deadlock in ext4_writepages() which was previously much harder to hit.
After this commit xfstest generic/130 reproduces the deadlock on small
filesystems.
The problem happens when ext4_do_update_inode() sets LARGE_FILE feature
and marks current inode handle as synchronous. That subsequently results
in ext4_journal_stop() called from ext4_writepages() to block waiting for
transaction commit while still holding page locks, reference to io_end,
and some prepared bio in mpd structure each of which can possibly block
transaction commit from completing and thus results in deadlock.
Fix the problem by releasing page locks, io_end reference, and
submitting prepared bio before calling ext4_journal_stop().
[ Changed to defer the call to ext4_journal_stop() only if the handle
is synchronous. --tytso ]
Reported-and-tested-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2579,13 +2579,36 @@ retry:
done = true;
}
}
- ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+ /*
+ * Caution: If the handle is synchronous,
+ * ext4_journal_stop() can wait for transaction commit
+ * to finish which may depend on writeback of pages to
+ * complete or on page lock to be released. In that
+ * case, we have to wait until after after we have
+ * submitted all the IO, released page locks we hold,
+ * and dropped io_end reference (for extent conversion
+ * to be able to complete) before stopping the handle.
+ */
+ if (!ext4_handle_valid(handle) || handle->h_sync == 0) {
+ ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+ handle = NULL;
+ }
/* Submit prepared bio */
ext4_io_submit(&mpd.io_submit);
/* Unlock pages we didn't use */
mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write);
- /* Drop our io_end reference we got from init */
- ext4_put_io_end(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
+ /*
+ * Drop our io_end reference we got from init. We have
+ * to be careful and use deferred io_end finishing if
+ * we are still holding the transaction as we can
+ * release the last reference to io_end which may end
+ * up doing unwritten extent conversion.
+ */
+ if (handle) {
+ ext4_put_io_end_defer(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
+ ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+ } else
+ ext4_put_io_end(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
if (ret == -ENOSPC && sbi->s_journal) {
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/ext4-fix-deadlock-during-page-writeback.patch
queue-3.14/ext4-short-cut-orphan-cleanup-on-error.patch
queue-3.14/ext4-don-t-call-ext4_should_journal_data-on-the-journal-inode.patch
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