This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
btrfs: clear space cache inode generation always
to the 4.4-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-clear-space-cache-inode-generation-always.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8e138e0d92c6c9d3d481674fb14e3439b495be37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:50:46 -0500
Subject: btrfs: clear space cache inode generation always
From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx>
commit 8e138e0d92c6c9d3d481674fb14e3439b495be37 upstream.
We discovered a box that had double allocations, and suspected the space
cache may be to blame. While auditing the write out path I noticed that
if we've already setup the space cache we will just carry on. This
means that any error we hit after cache_save_setup before we go to
actually write the cache out we won't reset the inode generation, so
whatever was already written will be considered correct, except it'll be
stale. Fix this by _always_ resetting the generation on the block group
inode, this way we only ever have valid or invalid cache.
With this patch I was no longer able to reproduce cache corruption with
dm-log-writes and my bpf error injection tool.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -3361,13 +3361,6 @@ again:
goto again;
}
- /* We've already setup this transaction, go ahead and exit */
- if (block_group->cache_generation == trans->transid &&
- i_size_read(inode)) {
- dcs = BTRFS_DC_SETUP;
- goto out_put;
- }
-
/*
* We want to set the generation to 0, that way if anything goes wrong
* from here on out we know not to trust this cache when we load up next
@@ -3391,6 +3384,13 @@ again:
}
WARN_ON(ret);
+ /* We've already setup this transaction, go ahead and exit */
+ if (block_group->cache_generation == trans->transid &&
+ i_size_read(inode)) {
+ dcs = BTRFS_DC_SETUP;
+ goto out_put;
+ }
+
if (i_size_read(inode) > 0) {
ret = btrfs_check_trunc_cache_free_space(root,
&root->fs_info->global_block_rsv);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jbacik@xxxxxx are
queue-4.4/btrfs-clear-space-cache-inode-generation-always.patch