The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From abbc3f9395c76d554a9ed27d4b1ebfb5d9b0e4ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshads@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:13:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix a race in the ext4 shutdown path
This patch fixes a race between the shutdown path and bio completion
handling. In the ext4 direct io path with async io, after submitting a
bio to the block layer, if journal starting fails,
ext4_direct_IO_write() would bail out pretending that the IO
failed. The caller would have had no way of knowing whether or not the
IO was successfully submitted. So instead, we return -EIOCBQUEUED in
this case. Now, the caller knows that the IO was submitted. The bio
completion handler takes care of the error.
Tested: Ran the shutdown xfstest test 461 in loop for over 2 hours across
4 machines resulting in over 400 runs. Verified that the race didn't
occur. Usually the race was seen in about 20-30 iterations.
Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshads@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 534a9130f625..4c2f8b57bdc7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3767,10 +3767,18 @@ static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
/* Credits for sb + inode write */
handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2);
if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
- /* This is really bad luck. We've written the data
- * but cannot extend i_size. Bail out and pretend
- * the write failed... */
- ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ /*
+ * We wrote the data but cannot extend
+ * i_size. Bail out. In async io case, we do
+ * not return error here because we have
+ * already submmitted the corresponding
+ * bio. Returning error here makes the caller
+ * think that this IO is done and failed
+ * resulting in race with bio's completion
+ * handler.
+ */
+ if (!ret)
+ ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
if (inode->i_nlink)
ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);