[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "ext4: move error report out of atomic context in ext4_init_block_bitmap()" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Oct 31 20:53:37 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ext4: move error report out of atomic context in ext4_init_block_bitmap()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.11.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 6b05d799993149fa4f3f2408f9b0d53855ebffa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov at openvz.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 03:42:12 -0400
Subject: ext4: move error report out of atomic context in
 ext4_init_block_bitmap()

commit aef4885ae14f1df75b58395c5314d71f613d26d9 upstream.

Error report likely result in IO so it is bad idea to do it from
atomic context.

This patch should fix following issue:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/buffer_head.h:349
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 137, name: kworker/u128:1
5 locks held by kworker/u128:1/137:
 #0:  ("writeback"){......}, at: [<ffffffff81085618>] process_one_work+0x228/0x4d0
 #1:  ((&(&wb->dwork)->work)){......}, at: [<ffffffff81085618>] process_one_work+0x228/0x4d0
 #2:  (jbd2_handle){......}, at: [<ffffffff81242622>] start_this_handle+0x712/0x7b0
 #3:  (&ei->i_data_sem){......}, at: [<ffffffff811fa387>] ext4_map_blocks+0x297/0x430
 #4:  (&(&bgl->locks[i].lock)->rlock){......}, at: [<ffffffff811f3180>] ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait+0x5d0/0x630
CPU: 3 PID: 137 Comm: kworker/u128:1 Not tainted 3.17.0-rc2-00184-g82752e4 #165
Hardware name: Intel Corporation W2600CR/W2600CR, BIOS SE5C600.86B.99.99.x028.061320111235 06/13/2011
Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-1:0)
 0000000000000411 ffff880813777288 ffffffff815c7fdc ffff880813777288
 ffff880813a8bba0 ffff8808137772a8 ffffffff8108fb30 ffff880803e01e38
 ffff880803e01e38 ffff8808137772c8 ffffffff811a8d53 ffff88080ecc6000
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff815c7fdc>] dump_stack+0x51/0x6d
 [<ffffffff8108fb30>] __might_sleep+0xf0/0x100
 [<ffffffff811a8d53>] __sync_dirty_buffer+0x43/0xe0
 [<ffffffff811a8e03>] sync_dirty_buffer+0x13/0x20
 [<ffffffff8120f581>] ext4_commit_super+0x1d1/0x230
 [<ffffffff8120fa03>] save_error_info+0x23/0x30
 [<ffffffff8120fd06>] __ext4_error+0xb6/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8120f260>] ? ext4_group_desc_csum+0x140/0x190
 [<ffffffff811f2d8c>] ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait+0x1dc/0x630
 [<ffffffff8122e23a>] ext4_mb_init_cache+0x21a/0x8f0
 [<ffffffff8113ae95>] ? lru_cache_add+0x55/0x60
 [<ffffffff8112e16c>] ? add_to_page_cache_lru+0x6c/0x80
 [<ffffffff8122eaa0>] ext4_mb_init_group+0x190/0x280
 [<ffffffff8122ec51>] ext4_mb_good_group+0xc1/0x190
 [<ffffffff8123309a>] ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x17a/0x410
 [<ffffffff8122c821>] ? ext4_mb_use_preallocated+0x31/0x380
 [<ffffffff81233535>] ? ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x205/0x8e0
 [<ffffffff8116ed5c>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xfc/0x180
 [<ffffffff812335b0>] ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x280/0x8e0
 [<ffffffff8116f2c4>] ? __kmalloc+0x144/0x1c0
 [<ffffffff81221797>] ? ext4_find_extent+0x97/0x320
 [<ffffffff812257f4>] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xbc4/0x1050
 [<ffffffff811fa387>] ? ext4_map_blocks+0x297/0x430
 [<ffffffff811fa3ab>] ext4_map_blocks+0x2bb/0x430
 [<ffffffff81200e43>] ? ext4_init_io_end+0x23/0x50
 [<ffffffff811feb44>] ext4_writepages+0x564/0xaf0
 [<ffffffff815cde3b>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x2b/0x40
 [<ffffffff810ac7bd>] ? lock_release_non_nested+0x2fd/0x3c0
 [<ffffffff811a009e>] ? writeback_sb_inodes+0x10e/0x490
 [<ffffffff811a009e>] ? writeback_sb_inodes+0x10e/0x490
 [<ffffffff811377e3>] do_writepages+0x23/0x40
 [<ffffffff8119c8ce>] __writeback_single_inode+0x9e/0x280
 [<ffffffff811a026b>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x2db/0x490
 [<ffffffff811a0664>] wb_writeback+0x174/0x2d0
 [<ffffffff810ac359>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x29/0x190
 [<ffffffff811a0863>] wb_do_writeback+0xa3/0x200
 [<ffffffff811a0a40>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x80/0x230
 [<ffffffff81085618>] ? process_one_work+0x228/0x4d0
 [<ffffffff810856cd>] process_one_work+0x2dd/0x4d0
 [<ffffffff81085618>] ? process_one_work+0x228/0x4d0
 [<ffffffff81085c1d>] worker_thread+0x35d/0x460
 [<ffffffff810858c0>] ? process_one_work+0x4d0/0x4d0
 [<ffffffff810858c0>] ? process_one_work+0x4d0/0x4d0
 [<ffffffff8108a885>] kthread+0xf5/0x100
 [<ffffffff810990e5>] ? local_clock+0x25/0x30
 [<ffffffff8108a790>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70
 [<ffffffff815ce2ac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
 [<ffffffff8108a790>] ? __init_kthread_work

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov at openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
[ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: also make ext4_init_block_bitmap static,
  as per c197855ea ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/balloc.c | 13 +++++++++----
 fs/ext4/ext4.h   |  4 ----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 6ea7b14..c8c3cb2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ static unsigned int num_clusters_in_group(struct super_block *sb,
 }

 /* Initializes an uninitialized block bitmap */
-void ext4_init_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh,
+static int ext4_init_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb,
+			    struct buffer_head *bh,
 			    ext4_group_t block_group,
 			    struct ext4_group_desc *gdp)
 {
@@ -191,11 +192,10 @@ void ext4_init_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh,
 	/* If checksum is bad mark all blocks used to prevent allocation
 	 * essentially implementing a per-group read-only flag. */
 	if (!ext4_group_desc_csum_verify(sb, block_group, gdp)) {
-		ext4_error(sb, "Checksum bad for group %u", block_group);
 		grp = ext4_get_group_info(sb, block_group);
 		set_bit(EXT4_GROUP_INFO_BBITMAP_CORRUPT_BIT, &grp->bb_state);
 		set_bit(EXT4_GROUP_INFO_IBITMAP_CORRUPT_BIT, &grp->bb_state);
-		return;
+		return -EIO;
 	}
 	memset(bh->b_data, 0, sb->s_blocksize);

@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ void ext4_init_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh,
 			     sb->s_blocksize * 8, bh->b_data);
 	ext4_block_bitmap_csum_set(sb, block_group, gdp, bh);
 	ext4_group_desc_csum_set(sb, block_group, gdp);
+	return 0;
 }

 /* Return the number of free blocks in a block group.  It is used when
@@ -419,11 +420,15 @@ ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group)
 	}
 	ext4_lock_group(sb, block_group);
 	if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
-		ext4_init_block_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);
+		int err;
+
+		err = ext4_init_block_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);
 		set_bitmap_uptodate(bh);
 		set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
 		ext4_unlock_group(sb, block_group);
 		unlock_buffer(bh);
+		if (err)
+			ext4_error(sb, "Checksum bad for grp %u", block_group);
 		return bh;
 	}
 	ext4_unlock_group(sb, block_group);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 0e9930f..5b250fe 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1979,10 +1979,6 @@ extern int ext4_wait_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb,
 				  struct buffer_head *bh);
 extern struct buffer_head *ext4_read_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb,
 						  ext4_group_t block_group);
-extern void ext4_init_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb,
-				   struct buffer_head *bh,
-				   ext4_group_t group,
-				   struct ext4_group_desc *desc);
 extern unsigned ext4_free_clusters_after_init(struct super_block *sb,
 					      ext4_group_t block_group,
 					      struct ext4_group_desc *gdp);
--
1.9.1





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