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writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:38:30 +0000 (08:38 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:23:41 +0000 (12:23 +0200)
commitbfce20eaf18e240e49fe127a1a5f6832698ee5d4
tree06f831efcbef1c5b5bfac5e1da6d091f2d871cbc
parentcd042379c6ad4a9420dcea73036c16bbd37f82ca
writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches

commit 7fc5854f8c6efae9e7624970ab49a1eac2faefb1 upstream.

sync_inodes_sb() can race against cgwb (cgroup writeback) membership
switches and fail to writeback some inodes.  For example, if an inode
switches to another wb while sync_inodes_sb() is in progress, the new
wb might not be visible to bdi_split_work_to_wbs() at all or the inode
might jump from a wb which hasn't issued writebacks yet to one which
already has.

This patch adds backing_dev_info->wb_switch_rwsem to synchronize cgwb
switch path against sync_inodes_sb() so that sync_inodes_sb() is
guaranteed to see all the target wbs and inodes can't jump wbs to
escape syncing.

v2: Fixed misplaced rwsem init.  Spotted by Jiufei.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jiufei Xue <xuejiufei@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc694ae2-f07f-61e1-7097-7c8411cee12d@gmail.com
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/fs-writeback.c
include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
mm/backing-dev.c