This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Btrfs: fix race in WAIT_SYNC ioctl to the 3.17-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-fix-race-in-wait_sync-ioctl.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 42383020beb1cfb05f5d330cc311931bc4917a97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:30:06 -0700 Subject: Btrfs: fix race in WAIT_SYNC ioctl From: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 42383020beb1cfb05f5d330cc311931bc4917a97 upstream. We check whether transid is already committed via last_trans_committed and then search through trans_list for pending transactions. If last_trans_committed is updated by btrfs_commit_transaction after we check it (there is no locking), we will fail to find the committed transaction and return EINVAL to the caller. This has been observed occasionally by ceph-osd (which uses this ioctl heavily). Fix by rechecking whether the provided transid <= last_trans_committed after the search fails, and if so return 0. Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c @@ -609,7 +609,6 @@ int btrfs_wait_for_commit(struct btrfs_r if (transid <= root->fs_info->last_trans_committed) goto out; - ret = -EINVAL; /* find specified transaction */ spin_lock(&root->fs_info->trans_lock); list_for_each_entry(t, &root->fs_info->trans_list, list) { @@ -625,9 +624,16 @@ int btrfs_wait_for_commit(struct btrfs_r } } spin_unlock(&root->fs_info->trans_lock); - /* The specified transaction doesn't exist */ - if (!cur_trans) + + /* + * The specified transaction doesn't exist, or we + * raced with btrfs_commit_transaction + */ + if (!cur_trans) { + if (transid > root->fs_info->last_trans_committed) + ret = -EINVAL; goto out; + } } else { /* find newest transaction that is committing | committed */ spin_lock(&root->fs_info->trans_lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sage@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.17/btrfs-fix-race-in-wait_sync-ioctl.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html