This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
btrfs: clean the old superblocks before freeing the device
to the 4.8-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:
btrfs-clean-the-old-superblocks-before-freeing-the-device.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From cea67ab92d3d4da9f2b4141d87cb8664757daca0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 08:50:21 -0400
Subject: btrfs: clean the old superblocks before freeing the device
From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
commit cea67ab92d3d4da9f2b4141d87cb8664757daca0 upstream.
btrfs_rm_device frees the block device but then re-opens it using
the saved device name. A race exists between the close and the
re-open that allows the block size to be changed. The result
is getting stuck forever in the reclaim loop in __getblk_slow.
This patch moves the superblock cleanup before closing the block
device, which is also consistent with other callers. We also don't
need a private copy of dev_name as the whole routine operates under
the uuid_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 38 +++++++++++---------------------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -1846,7 +1846,6 @@ int btrfs_rm_device(struct btrfs_root *r
u64 num_devices;
int ret = 0;
bool clear_super = false;
- char *dev_name = NULL;
mutex_lock(&uuid_mutex);
@@ -1882,11 +1881,6 @@ int btrfs_rm_device(struct btrfs_root *r
list_del_init(&device->dev_alloc_list);
device->fs_devices->rw_devices--;
unlock_chunks(root);
- dev_name = kstrdup(device->name->str, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!dev_name) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto error_undo;
- }
clear_super = true;
}
@@ -1936,14 +1930,21 @@ int btrfs_rm_device(struct btrfs_root *r
btrfs_sysfs_rm_device_link(root->fs_info->fs_devices, device);
}
- btrfs_close_bdev(device);
-
- call_rcu(&device->rcu, free_device);
-
num_devices = btrfs_super_num_devices(root->fs_info->super_copy) - 1;
btrfs_set_super_num_devices(root->fs_info->super_copy, num_devices);
mutex_unlock(&root->fs_info->fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
+ /*
+ * at this point, the device is zero sized and detached from
+ * the devices list. All that's left is to zero out the old
+ * supers and free the device.
+ */
+ if (device->writeable)
+ btrfs_scratch_superblocks(device->bdev, device->name->str);
+
+ btrfs_close_bdev(device);
+ call_rcu(&device->rcu, free_device);
+
if (cur_devices->open_devices == 0) {
struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices;
fs_devices = root->fs_info->fs_devices;
@@ -1962,24 +1963,7 @@ int btrfs_rm_device(struct btrfs_root *r
root->fs_info->num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures =
btrfs_calc_num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures(root->fs_info);
- /*
- * at this point, the device is zero sized. We want to
- * remove it from the devices list and zero out the old super
- */
- if (clear_super) {
- struct block_device *bdev;
-
- bdev = blkdev_get_by_path(dev_name, FMODE_READ | FMODE_EXCL,
- root->fs_info->bdev_holder);
- if (!IS_ERR(bdev)) {
- btrfs_scratch_superblocks(bdev, dev_name);
- blkdev_put(bdev, FMODE_READ | FMODE_EXCL);
- }
- }
-
out:
- kfree(dev_name);
-
mutex_unlock(&uuid_mutex);
return ret;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeffm@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/btrfs-clean-the-old-superblocks-before-freeing-the-device.patch
queue-4.8/btrfs-fix-bug_on-in-btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty.patch
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