From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b0f3b87fb3abc42c81d76c6c5795f26dbdb2f04b ] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208565 PID: 257 TASK: ecdd0000 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "init" #0 [<c0b420ec>] (__schedule) from [<c0b423c8>] #1 [<c0b423c8>] (schedule) from [<c0b459d4>] #2 [<c0b459d4>] (rwsem_down_read_failed) from [<c0b44fa0>] #3 [<c0b44fa0>] (down_read) from [<c044233c>] #4 [<c044233c>] (f2fs_truncate_blocks) from [<c0442890>] #5 [<c0442890>] (f2fs_truncate) from [<c044d408>] #6 [<c044d408>] (f2fs_evict_inode) from [<c030be18>] #7 [<c030be18>] (evict) from [<c030a558>] #8 [<c030a558>] (iput) from [<c047c600>] #9 [<c047c600>] (f2fs_sync_node_pages) from [<c0465414>] #10 [<c0465414>] (f2fs_write_checkpoint) from [<c04575f4>] #11 [<c04575f4>] (f2fs_sync_fs) from [<c0441918>] #12 [<c0441918>] (f2fs_do_sync_file) from [<c0441098>] #13 [<c0441098>] (f2fs_sync_file) from [<c0323fa0>] #14 [<c0323fa0>] (vfs_fsync_range) from [<c0324294>] #15 [<c0324294>] (do_fsync) from [<c0324014>] #16 [<c0324014>] (sys_fsync) from [<c0108bc0>] This can be caused by flush_dirty_inode() in f2fs_sync_node_pages() where iput() requires f2fs_lock_op() again resulting in livelock. Reported-by: Zhiguo Niu <Zhiguo.Niu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/f2fs/node.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.c b/fs/f2fs/node.c index 03e24df1c84f5..e61ce7fb0958b 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/node.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c @@ -1924,8 +1924,12 @@ int f2fs_sync_node_pages(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, goto continue_unlock; } - /* flush inline_data, if it's async context. */ - if (do_balance && is_inline_node(page)) { + /* flush inline_data/inode, if it's async context. */ + if (!do_balance) + goto write_node; + + /* flush inline_data */ + if (is_inline_node(page)) { clear_inline_node(page); unlock_page(page); flush_inline_data(sbi, ino_of_node(page)); @@ -1938,7 +1942,7 @@ int f2fs_sync_node_pages(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, if (flush_dirty_inode(page)) goto lock_node; } - +write_node: f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback(page, NODE, true, true); if (!clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) -- 2.25.1