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ext4: fix a race in the ext4 shutdown path
authorHarshad Shirwadkar <harshads@google.com>
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 05:13:13 +0000 (00:13 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:43:48 +0000 (15:43 +0100)
commit539deabfccb0a5d7e17daa432b385ffe608e0ccb
treef459d46d29905d5824d5c29c3fc56e599a901af3
parent99a89d8fb506abaaf5f88e99cd29bb288d805c8e
ext4: fix a race in the ext4 shutdown path

commit abbc3f9395c76d554a9ed27d4b1ebfb5d9b0e4ca upstream.

This patch fixes a race between the shutdown path and bio completion
handling. In the ext4 direct io path with async io, after submitting a
bio to the block layer, if journal starting fails,
ext4_direct_IO_write() would bail out pretending that the IO
failed. The caller would have had no way of knowing whether or not the
IO was successfully submitted. So instead, we return -EIOCBQUEUED in
this case. Now, the caller knows that the IO was submitted.  The bio
completion handler takes care of the error.

Tested: Ran the shutdown xfstest test 461 in loop for over 2 hours across
4 machines resulting in over 400 runs. Verified that the race didn't
occur. Usually the race was seen in about 20-30 iterations.

Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshads@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/inode.c