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Commit f7ad6d2e authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: handle writeback of inodes which are being freed



The following BUG can occur when an inode which is getting freed when
it still has dirty pages outstanding, and it gets deleted (in this
because it was the target of a rename).  In ordered mode, we need to
make sure the data pages are written just in case we crash before the
rename (or unlink) is committed.  If the inode is being freed then
when we try to igrab the inode, we end up tripping the BUG_ON at
fs/ext4/page-io.c:146.

To solve this problem, we need to keep track of the number of io
callbacks which are pending, and avoid destroying the inode until they
have all been completed.  That way we don't have to bump the inode
count to keep the inode from being destroyed; an approach which
doesn't work because the count could have already been dropped down to
zero before the inode writeback has started (at which point we're not
allowed to bump the count back up to 1, since it's already started
getting freed).

Thanks to Dave Chinner for suggesting this approach, which is also
used by XFS.

  kernel BUG at /scratch_space/linux-2.6/fs/ext4/page-io.c:146!
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff811075b1>] ext4_bio_write_page+0x172/0x307
   [<ffffffff811033a7>] mpage_da_submit_io+0x2f9/0x37b
   [<ffffffff811068d7>] mpage_da_map_and_submit+0x2cc/0x2e2
   [<ffffffff811069b3>] mpage_add_bh_to_extent+0xc6/0xd5
   [<ffffffff81106c66>] write_cache_pages_da+0x2a4/0x3ac
   [<ffffffff81107044>] ext4_da_writepages+0x2d6/0x44d
   [<ffffffff81087910>] do_writepages+0x1c/0x25
   [<ffffffff810810a4>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x4b/0x4d
   [<ffffffff810815f5>] filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xe/0x10
   [<ffffffff81122a2e>] jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate+0x7b/0xa2
   [<ffffffff8110615d>] ext4_evict_inode+0x57/0x24c
   [<ffffffff810c14a3>] evict+0x22/0x92
   [<ffffffff810c1a3d>] iput+0x212/0x249
   [<ffffffff810bdf16>] dentry_iput+0xa1/0xb9
   [<ffffffff810bdf6b>] d_kill+0x3d/0x5d
   [<ffffffff810be613>] dput+0x13a/0x147
   [<ffffffff810b990d>] sys_renameat+0x1b5/0x258
   [<ffffffff81145f71>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x2d/0x4c
   [<ffffffff810b2950>] ? cp_new_stat+0xde/0xea
   [<ffffffff810b29c1>] ? sys_newlstat+0x2d/0x38
   [<ffffffff810b99c6>] sys_rename+0x16/0x18
   [<ffffffff81002a2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Reported-by: default avatarNick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarNick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
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