From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:15:51 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()
X-Git-Tag: v3.8-rc2~9^2~8
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7961c7fa4d2e3c3f12be67e21ba8799b5a7238a;p=profile%2Fcommon%2Fkernel-common.git

jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()

The following race is possible between start_this_handle() and someone
calling jbd2_journal_flush().

Process A                              Process B
start_this_handle().
  if (journal->j_barrier_count) # false
  if (!journal->j_running_transaction) { #true
    read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
                                       jbd2_journal_lock_updates()
                                       jbd2_journal_flush()
                                         write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
                                         if (journal->j_running_transaction) {
                                           # false
                                         ... wait for committing trans ...
                                         write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
    ...
    write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
    if (!journal->j_running_transaction) { # true
      jbd2_get_transaction(journal, new_transaction);
    write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
    goto repeat; # eventually blocks on j_barrier_count > 0
                                         ...
                                         J_ASSERT(!journal->j_running_transaction);
                                           # fails

We fix the race by rechecking j_barrier_count after reacquiring j_state_lock
in exclusive mode.

Reported-by: yjwsignal@empal.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index deffd94..cd4485d 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -209,7 +209,8 @@ repeat:
 		if (!new_transaction)
 			goto alloc_transaction;
 		write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-		if (!journal->j_running_transaction) {
+		if (!journal->j_running_transaction &&
+		    !journal->j_barrier_count) {
 			jbd2_get_transaction(journal, new_transaction);
 			new_transaction = NULL;
 		}