Re: [PATCH 4/3] xfs: set superblock buffer type correctly

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 01:34:44PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When the superblock is modified in a transaction, the commonly
> modified fields are not actually copied to the superblock buffer to
> avoid the buffer lock becoming a serialisation point. However, there
> are some other operations that modify the superblock fields within
> the transaction that don't directly log to the superblock but rely
> on the changes to be applied during the transaction commit (to
> minimise the buffer lock hold time).
> 
> When we do this, we fail to mark the buffer log item as being a
> superblock buffer and that can lead to the buffer not being marked
> with the corect type in the log and hence causing recovery issues.
> Fix it by setting the type correctly, similar to xfs_mod_sb()...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> index fa3135b..eb90cd5 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> @@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ xfs_trans_apply_sb_deltas(
>  		whole = 1;
>  	}
>  
> +	xfs_trans_buf_set_type(tp, bp, XFS_BLFT_SB_BUF);
>  	if (whole)
>  		/*
>  		 * Log the whole thing, the fields are noncontiguous.
> 
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