3.16.63-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> commit 552f0329c75b3e1d7f9bb8c9e421d37403f192cd upstream. We have a race between enabling quotas end subvolume creation that cause subvolume creation to fail with -EINVAL, and the following diagram shows how it happens: CPU 0 CPU 1 btrfs_ioctl() btrfs_ioctl_quota_ctl() btrfs_quota_enable() mutex_lock(fs_info->qgroup_ioctl_lock) btrfs_ioctl() create_subvol() btrfs_qgroup_inherit() -> save fs_info->quota_root into quota_root -> stores a NULL value -> tries to lock the mutex qgroup_ioctl_lock -> blocks waiting for the task at CPU0 -> sets BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED in fs_info -> sets quota_root in fs_info->quota_root (non-NULL value) mutex_unlock(fs_info->qgroup_ioctl_lock) -> checks quota enabled flag is set -> returns -EINVAL because fs_info->quota_root was NULL before it acquired the mutex qgroup_ioctl_lock -> ioctl returns -EINVAL Returning -EINVAL to user space will be confusing if all the arguments passed to the subvolume creation ioctl were valid. Fix it by grabbing the value from fs_info->quota_root after acquiring the mutex. Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/qgroup.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c @@ -2024,7 +2024,7 @@ int btrfs_qgroup_inherit(struct btrfs_tr int ret = 0; int i; u64 *i_qgroups; - struct btrfs_root *quota_root = fs_info->quota_root; + struct btrfs_root *quota_root; struct btrfs_qgroup *srcgroup; struct btrfs_qgroup *dstgroup; u32 level_size = 0; @@ -2034,6 +2034,7 @@ int btrfs_qgroup_inherit(struct btrfs_tr if (!fs_info->quota_enabled) goto out; + quota_root = fs_info->quota_root; if (!quota_root) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out;