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ext4: fix deadlock during page writeback
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Mon, 4 Jul 2016 14:14:01 +0000 (10:14 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 07:30:51 +0000 (09:30 +0200)
commit5a7f477c725e866729307ff87011f8dd812a3cdf
tree49324c570f43c3b3219b8692db8ca21ee82d4c9c
parent9e38db20d794504bb52f9592c90cdc8754f97251
ext4: fix deadlock during page writeback

commit 646caa9c8e196880b41cd3e3d33a2ebc752bdb85 upstream.

Commit 06bd3c36a733 (ext4: fix data exposure after a crash) uncovered a
deadlock in ext4_writepages() which was previously much harder to hit.
After this commit xfstest generic/130 reproduces the deadlock on small
filesystems.

The problem happens when ext4_do_update_inode() sets LARGE_FILE feature
and marks current inode handle as synchronous. That subsequently results
in ext4_journal_stop() called from ext4_writepages() to block waiting for
transaction commit while still holding page locks, reference to io_end,
and some prepared bio in mpd structure each of which can possibly block
transaction commit from completing and thus results in deadlock.

Fix the problem by releasing page locks, io_end reference, and
submitting prepared bio before calling ext4_journal_stop().

[ Changed to defer the call to ext4_journal_stop() only if the handle
  is synchronous.  --tytso ]

Reported-and-tested-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/inode.c