This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
to the 3.0-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-theoretical-race-in-jbd2__journal_restart.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 39c04153fda8c32e85b51c96eb5511a326ad7609 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 08:12:40 -0400
Subject: jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
commit 39c04153fda8c32e85b51c96eb5511a326ad7609 upstream.
Once we decrement transaction->t_updates, if this is the last handle
holding the transaction from closing, and once we release the
t_handle_lock spinlock, it's possible for the transaction to commit
and be released. In practice with normal kernels, this probably won't
happen, since the commit happens in a separate kernel thread and it's
unlikely this could all happen within the space of a few CPU cycles.
On the other hand, with a real-time kernel, this could potentially
happen, so save the tid found in transaction->t_tid before we release
t_handle_lock. It would require an insane configuration, such as one
where the jbd2 thread was set to a very high real-time priority,
perhaps because a high priority real-time thread is trying to read or
write to a file system. But some people who use real-time kernels
have been known to do insane things, including controlling
laser-wielding industrial robots. :-)
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -469,10 +469,10 @@ int jbd2__journal_restart(handle_t *hand
&transaction->t_outstanding_credits);
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&transaction->t_updates))
wake_up(&journal->j_wait_updates);
+ tid = transaction->t_tid;
spin_unlock(&transaction->t_handle_lock);
jbd_debug(2, "restarting handle %p\n", handle);
- tid = transaction->t_tid;
need_to_start = !tid_geq(journal->j_commit_request, tid);
read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
if (need_to_start)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.0/jbd2-fix-theoretical-race-in-jbd2__journal_restart.patch
queue-3.0/ext3-ext4-don-t-mess-with-dir_file-f_pos-in-htree_dirblock_to_tree.patch
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