[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "ocfs2: fix BUG in ocfs2_downconvert_thread_do_work()" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Sep 21 22:26:10 UTC 2015


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

    ocfs2: fix BUG in ocfs2_downconvert_thread_do_work()

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt7.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From c033bf5d58c7c81adc0edb96e7ae220b3c9bc34f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi at huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:46:23 -0700
Subject: ocfs2: fix BUG in ocfs2_downconvert_thread_do_work()

commit 209f7512d007980fd111a74a064d70a3656079cf upstream.

The "BUG_ON(list_empty(&osb->blocked_lock_list))" in
ocfs2_downconvert_thread_do_work can be triggered in the following case:

ocfs2dc has firstly saved osb->blocked_lock_count to local varibale
processed, and then processes the dentry lockres.  During the dentry
put, it calls iput and then deletes rw, inode and open lockres from
blocked list in ocfs2_mark_lockres_freeing.  And this causes the
variable `processed' to not reflect the number of blocked lockres to be
processed, which triggers the BUG.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi at huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh at suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec at evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
index 1c423af..ba6c538 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
@@ -4017,9 +4017,13 @@ static void ocfs2_downconvert_thread_do_work(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
 	osb->dc_work_sequence = osb->dc_wake_sequence;

 	processed = osb->blocked_lock_count;
-	while (processed) {
-		BUG_ON(list_empty(&osb->blocked_lock_list));
-
+	/*
+	 * blocked lock processing in this loop might call iput which can
+	 * remove items off osb->blocked_lock_list. Downconvert up to
+	 * 'processed' number of locks, but stop short if we had some
+	 * removed in ocfs2_mark_lockres_freeing when downconverting.
+	 */
+	while (processed && !list_empty(&osb->blocked_lock_list)) {
 		lockres = list_entry(osb->blocked_lock_list.next,
 				     struct ocfs2_lock_res, l_blocked_list);
 		list_del_init(&lockres->l_blocked_list);
--
1.9.1





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