5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> commit 4490e803e1fe9fab8db5025e44e23b55df54078b upstream. When joining a transaction with TRANS_JOIN_NOSTART, if we don't find a running transaction we end up creating one. This goes against the purpose of TRANS_JOIN_NOSTART which is to join a running transaction if its state is at or below the state TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_START, otherwise return an -ENOENT error and don't start a new transaction. So fix this to not create a new transaction if there's no running transaction at or below that state. CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.14+ Fixes: a6d155d2e363 ("Btrfs: fix deadlock between fiemap and transaction commits") Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c @@ -190,10 +190,11 @@ loop: spin_unlock(&fs_info->trans_lock); /* - * If we are ATTACH, we just want to catch the current transaction, - * and commit it. If there is no transaction, just return ENOENT. + * If we are ATTACH or TRANS_JOIN_NOSTART, we just want to catch the + * current transaction, and commit it. If there is no transaction, just + * return ENOENT. */ - if (type == TRANS_ATTACH) + if (type == TRANS_ATTACH || type == TRANS_JOIN_NOSTART) return -ENOENT; /*