tree 8989c698d5841052eb2d5444b2c3d6e70a04cb54
parent 21cc91554c3da12708c9a85a98ce144409dc21ef
author Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 1479092549 -0500
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1483695613 +0100

ext4: don't lock buffer in ext4_commit_super if holding spinlock

commit 1566a48aaa10c6bb29b9a69dd8279f9a4fc41e35 upstream.

If there is an error reported in mballoc via ext4_grp_locked_error(),
the code is holding a spinlock, so ext4_commit_super() must not try to
lock the buffer head, or else it will trigger a BUG:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/buffer_head.h:358
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 993, name: mount
  CPU: 0 PID: 993 Comm: mount Not tainted 4.9.0-rc1-clouder1 #62
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.8.1-0-g4adadbd-20150316_085822-nilsson.home.kraxel.org 04/01/2014
   ffff880006423548 ffffffff81318c89 ffffffff819ecdd0 0000000000000166
   ffff880006423558 ffffffff810810b0 ffff880006423580 ffffffff81081153
   ffff880006e5a1a0 ffff88000690e400 0000000000000000 ffff8800064235c0
  Call Trace:
    [<ffffffff81318c89>] dump_stack+0x67/0x9e
    [<ffffffff810810b0>] ___might_sleep+0xf0/0x140
    [<ffffffff81081153>] __might_sleep+0x53/0xb0
    [<ffffffff8126c1dc>] ext4_commit_super+0x19c/0x290
    [<ffffffff8126e61a>] __ext4_grp_locked_error+0x14a/0x230
    [<ffffffff81081153>] ? __might_sleep+0x53/0xb0
    [<ffffffff812822be>] ext4_mb_generate_buddy+0x1de/0x320

Since ext4_grp_locked_error() calls ext4_commit_super with sync == 0
(and it is the only caller which does so), avoid locking and unlocking
the buffer in this case.

This can result in races with ext4_commit_super() if there are other
problems (which is what commit 4743f83990614 was trying to address),
but a Warning is better than BUG.

Fixes: 4743f83990614
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>