This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xfs: fix multi-AG deadlock in xfs_bunmapi
to the 4.9-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:
xfs-fix-multi-ag-deadlock-in-xfs_bunmapi.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From hch@xxxxxx Mon Sep 18 10:09:24 2017
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:06:40 -0700
Subject: xfs: fix multi-AG deadlock in xfs_bunmapi
To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20170917210712.10804-16-hch@xxxxxx>
commit 5b094d6dac0451ad89b1dc088395c7b399b7e9e8 upstream.
Just like in the allocator we must avoid touching multiple AGs out of
order when freeing blocks, as freeing still locks the AGF and can cause
the same AB-BA deadlocks as in the allocation path.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
@@ -5556,6 +5556,7 @@ __xfs_bunmapi(
xfs_fsblock_t sum;
xfs_filblks_t len = *rlen; /* length to unmap in file */
xfs_fileoff_t max_len;
+ xfs_agnumber_t prev_agno = NULLAGNUMBER, agno;
trace_xfs_bunmap(ip, bno, len, flags, _RET_IP_);
@@ -5658,6 +5659,17 @@ __xfs_bunmapi(
ASSERT(ep != NULL);
del = got;
wasdel = isnullstartblock(del.br_startblock);
+
+ /*
+ * Make sure we don't touch multiple AGF headers out of order
+ * in a single transaction, as that could cause AB-BA deadlocks.
+ */
+ if (!wasdel) {
+ agno = XFS_FSB_TO_AGNO(mp, del.br_startblock);
+ if (prev_agno != NULLAGNUMBER && prev_agno > agno)
+ break;
+ prev_agno = agno;
+ }
if (got.br_startoff < start) {
del.br_startoff = start;
del.br_blockcount -= start - got.br_startoff;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@xxxxxx are
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-inobt-inode-allocation-search-optimization.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-try-to-avoid-blowing-out-the-transaction-reservation-when-bunmaping-a-shared-extent.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-free-cowblocks-and-retry-on-buffered-write-enospc.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-set-firstfsb-to-nullfsblock-before-feeding-it-to-_bmapi_write.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-quotacheck-dquot-id-overflow-infinite-loop.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-remove-bli-from-ail-before-release-on-transaction-abort.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-check-_btree_check_block-value.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-don-t-allow-bmap-on-rt-files.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-free-uncommitted-transactions-during-log-recovery.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-don-t-crash-on-unexpected-holes-in-dir-attr-btrees.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-spurious-spin_is_locked-assert-failures-on-non-smp-kernels.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-per-inode-dax-flag-inheritance.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-fix-multi-ag-deadlock-in-xfs_bunmapi.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-release-bli-from-transaction-properly-on-fs-shutdown.patch
queue-4.9/xfs-check-_alloc_read_agf-buffer-pointer-before-using.patch