jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()
The following race is possible between start_this_handle() and someone
calling jbd2_journal_flush().
Process A Process B
start_this_handle().
if (journal->j_barrier_count) # false
if (!journal->j_running_transaction) { #true
read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
jbd2_journal_lock_updates()
jbd2_journal_flush()
write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
if (journal->j_running_transaction) {
# false
... wait for committing trans ...
write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
...
write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
if (!journal->j_running_transaction) { # true
jbd2_get_transaction(journal, new_transaction);
write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
goto repeat; # eventually blocks on j_barrier_count > 0
...
J_ASSERT(!journal->j_running_transaction);
# fails
We fix the race by rechecking j_barrier_count after reacquiring j_state_lock
in exclusive mode.
Reported-by: yjwsignal@empal.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
CRs-Fixed: 468318
Change-Id: Ibe417ee5c50e257b7521b5ce8bbfa4e13547d4c5
Git-commit: d7961c7fa4d2e3c3f12be67e21ba8799b5a7238a
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Taniya Das <tdas@codeaurora.org>
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