From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:06:47 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] resierfs: fix reiserfs_invalidatepage race against data=ordered
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc2~23
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d62b1b87a7d1c3a21dddabed4251763090be3182;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] resierfs: fix reiserfs_invalidatepage race against data=ordered

After a transaction has closed but before it has finished commit, there is
a window where data=ordered mode requires invalidatepage to pin pages
instead of freeing them.  This patch fixes a race between the
invalidatepage checks and data=ordered writeback, and it also adds a check
to the reiserfs write_ordered_buffers routines to write any anonymous
buffers that were dirtied after its first writeback loop.

That bug works like this:

proc1: transaction closes and a new one starts
proc1: write_ordered_buffers starts processing data=ordered list
proc1: buffer A is cleaned and written
proc2: buffer A is dirtied by another process
proc2: File is truncated to zero, page A goes through invalidatepage
proc2: reiserfs_invalidatepage sees dirty buffer A with reiserfs
       journal head, pins it
proc1: write_ordered_buffers frees the journal head on buffer A

At this point, buffer A stays dirty forever

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
index ffa34b861b..60e2f23447 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
@@ -2743,6 +2743,7 @@ static int invalidatepage_can_drop(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh)
 	int ret = 1;
 	struct reiserfs_journal *j = SB_JOURNAL(inode->i_sb);
 
+	lock_buffer(bh);
 	spin_lock(&j->j_dirty_buffers_lock);
 	if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) {
 		goto free_jh;
@@ -2758,7 +2759,7 @@ static int invalidatepage_can_drop(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh)
 		if (buffer_journaled(bh) || buffer_journal_dirty(bh)) {
 			ret = 0;
 		}
-	} else if (buffer_dirty(bh) || buffer_locked(bh)) {
+	} else  if (buffer_dirty(bh)) {
 		struct reiserfs_journal_list *jl;
 		struct reiserfs_jh *jh = bh->b_private;
 
@@ -2784,6 +2785,7 @@ static int invalidatepage_can_drop(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh)
 		reiserfs_free_jh(bh);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&j->j_dirty_buffers_lock);
+	unlock_buffer(bh);
 	return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
index 2d04efb22e..bc8fe963b3 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
@@ -877,6 +877,19 @@ static int write_ordered_buffers(spinlock_t * lock,
 		if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
 			ret = -EIO;
 		}
+		/* ugly interaction with invalidatepage here.
+		 * reiserfs_invalidate_page will pin any buffer that has a valid
+		 * journal head from an older transaction.  If someone else sets
+		 * our buffer dirty after we write it in the first loop, and
+		 * then someone truncates the page away, nobody will ever write
+		 * the buffer. We're safe if we write the page one last time
+		 * after freeing the journal header.
+		 */
+		if (buffer_dirty(bh) && unlikely(bh->b_page->mapping == NULL)) {
+			spin_unlock(lock);
+			ll_rw_block(WRITE, 1, &bh);
+			spin_lock(lock);
+		}
 		put_bh(bh);
 		cond_resched_lock(lock);
 	}