if 9P ->get_sb() fails late (at root inode or root dentry
allocation), we'll hit its ->kill_sb() with NULL ->s_root
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Error handling in that sucker got broken back in 2003. If function
returns 0 on failure, it's not nice to add return -EINVAL into it.
Adding return 1 on other failure exits is also not a good thing (and
yes, original success exits with 1 and some of failure exits with 0
are still there; so's the original logics in callers).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
A couple of fields in affs_sb_info is used in follow_link() and
symlink() for handling AFFS "absolute" symlinks. Need locking
against affs_remount() updates.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Commit 7036251180 exposed that f_modown()
should call write_lock_irqsave instead of just write_lock_irq so that
because a caller could have a spinlock held and it would not be good to
renable interrupts.
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: Drop EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_UPDATE_RESERVE_SPACE flag
ext4: Fix quota accounting error with fallocate
ext4: Handle -EDQUOT error on write
KVM needs a wait to atomically remove themselves from the eventfd ->poll()
wait queue head, in order to handle correctly their IRQfd deassign
operation.
This patch introduces such API, plus a way to read an eventfd from its
context.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6:
tty: fix race in tty_fasync
serial: serial_cs: oxsemi quirk breaks resume
serial: imx: bit &/| confusion
serial: Fix crash if the minimum rate of the device is > 9600 baud
serial-core: resume serial hardware with no_console_suspend
serial: 8250_pnp: use wildcard for serial Wacom tablets
nozomi: quick fix for the close/close bug
compat_ioctl: Supress "unknown cmd" message on serial /dev/console
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
fs/bio.c: fix shadows sparse warning
drbd: The kernel code is now equivalent to out of tree release 8.3.7
drbd: Allow online resizing of DRBD devices while peer not reachable (needs to be explicitly forced)
drbd: Don't go into StandAlone mode when authentification failes because of network error
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c: correct NULL test
cfq-iosched: Respect ioprio_class when preempting
genhd: overlapping variable definition
block: removed unused as_io_context
DM: Fix device mapper topology stacking
block: bdev_stack_limits wrapper
block: Fix discard alignment calculation and printing
block: Correct handling of bottom device misaligment
drbd: check on CONFIG_LBDAF, not LBD
drivers/block/drbd: Correct NULL test
drbd: Silenced an assert that could triggered after changing write ordering method
drbd: Kconfig fix
drbd: Fix for a race between IO and a detach operation [Bugz 262]
drbd: Use drbd_crypto_is_hash() instead of an open coded check
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6:
ecryptfs: use after free
ecryptfs: Eliminate useless code
ecryptfs: fix interpose/interpolate typos in comments
ecryptfs: pass matching flags to interpose as defined and used there
ecryptfs: remove unnecessary d_drop calls in ecryptfs_link
ecryptfs: don't ignore return value from lock_rename
ecryptfs: initialize private persistent file before dereferencing pointer
eCryptfs: Remove mmap from directory operations
eCryptfs: Add getattr function
eCryptfs: Use notify_change for truncating lower inodes
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
Btrfs: fix possible panic on unmount
Btrfs: deal with NULL acl sent to btrfs_set_acl
Btrfs: fix regression in orphan cleanup
Btrfs: Fix race in btrfs_mark_extent_written
Btrfs, fix memory leaks in error paths
Btrfs: align offsets for btrfs_ordered_update_i_size
btrfs: fix missing last-entry in readdir(3)
After the commit fb07a5f8 ("compat_ioctl: remove all VT ioctl
handling"), I got this error message on 64-bit mips kernel with 32-bit
busybox userland:
ioctl32(init:1): Unknown cmd fd(0) cmd(00005600){t:'V';sz:0} arg(7fd76480) on /dev/console
The cmd 5600 is VT_OPENQRY. The busybox's init issues this ioctl to
know vt-console or serial-console. If the console was serial console,
VT ioctls are not handled by the serial driver.
And by quick search, I found some programs using VT_GETMODE to check
vt-console is available or not.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The "full_alg_name" variable is used on a couple error paths, so we
shouldn't free it until the end.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The variable lower_dentry is initialized twice to the same (side effect-free)
expression. Drop one initialization.
A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@forall@
idexpression *x;
identifier f!=ERR_PTR;
@@
x = f(...)
... when != x
(
x = f(...,<+...x...+>,...)
|
* x = f(...)
)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
ecryptfs_interpose checks if one of the flags passed is
ECRYPTFS_INTERPOSE_FLAG_D_ADD, defined as 0x00000001 in ecryptfs_kernel.h.
But the only user of ecryptfs_interpose to pass a non-zero flag to it, has
hard-coded the value as "1". This could spell trouble if any of these values
changes in the future.
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Unnecessary because it would unhash perfectly valid dentries, causing them
to have to be re-looked up the next time they're needed, which presumably is
right after.
Signed-off-by: Aseem Rastogi <arastogi@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Shrikar archak <shrikar84@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Saumitra Bhanage <sbhanage@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Ecryptfs_open dereferences a pointer to the private lower file (the one
stored in the ecryptfs inode), without checking if the pointer is NULL.
Right afterward, it initializes that pointer if it is NULL. Swap order of
statements to first initialize. Bug discovered by Duckjin Kang.
Signed-off-by: Duckjin Kang <fromdj2k@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Adrian reported that mkfontscale didn't work inside of eCryptfs mounts.
Strace revealed the following:
open("./", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
open("./fonts.scale", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 4
getdents(3, /* 80 entries */, 32768) = 2304
open("./.", O_RDONLY) = 5
fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=16384, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 16384, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0xb7fcf000
close(5) = 0
--- SIGBUS (Bus error) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGBUS +++
The mmap2() on a directory was successful, resulting in a SIGBUS
signal later. This patch removes mmap() from the list of possible
ecryptfs_dir_fops so that mmap() isn't possible on eCryptfs directory
files.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/400443
Reported-by: Adrian C. <anrxc@sysphere.org>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The i_blocks field of an eCryptfs inode cannot be trusted, but
generic_fillattr() uses it to instantiate the blocks field of a stat()
syscall when a filesystem doesn't implement its own getattr(). Users
have noticed that the output of du is incorrect on newly created files.
This patch creates ecryptfs_getattr() which calls into the lower
filesystem's getattr() so that eCryptfs can use its kstat.blocks value
after calling generic_fillattr(). It is important to note that the
block count includes the eCryptfs metadata stored in the beginning of
the lower file plus any padding used to fill an extent before
encryption.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/390833
Reported-by: Dominic Sacré <dominic.sacre@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When truncating inodes in the lower filesystem, eCryptfs directly
invoked vmtruncate(). As Christoph Hellwig pointed out, vmtruncate() is
a filesystem helper function, but filesystems may need to do more than
just a call to vmtruncate().
This patch moves the lower inode truncation out of ecryptfs_truncate()
and renames the function to truncate_upper(). truncate_upper() updates
an iattr for the lower inode to indicate if the lower inode needs to be
truncated upon return. ecryptfs_setattr() then calls notify_change(),
using the updated iattr for the lower inode, to complete the truncation.
For eCryptfs functions needing to truncate, ecryptfs_truncate() is
reintroduced as a simple way to truncate the upper inode to a specified
size and then truncate the lower inode accordingly.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451368
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: ecryptfs-devel@lists.launchpad.net
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
fs/bio.c:81:33: warning: symbol 'bslab' shadows an earlier one
fs/bio.c:74:25: originally declared here
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: xfs_swap_extents needs to handle dynamic fork offsets
xfs: fix missing error check in xfs_rtfree_range
xfs: fix stale inode flush avoidance
xfs: Remove inode iolock held check during allocation
xfs: reclaim all inodes by background tree walks
xfs: Avoid inodes in reclaim when flushing from inode cache
xfs: reclaim inodes under a write lock
We can race with the unmount of an fs and the stopping of a kthread where we
will free the block group before we're done using it. The reason for this is
because we do not hold a reference on the block group while its caching, since
the allocator drops its reference once it exits or moves on to the next block
group. This patch fixes the problem by taking a reference to the block group
before we start caching and dropping it when we're done to make sure all
accesses to the block group are safe. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
It is legal for btrfs_set_acl to be sent a NULL acl. This
makes sure we don't dereference it. A similar patch was sent by
Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Currently orphan cleanup only ever gets triggered if we cross subvolumes during
a lookup, which means that if we just mount a plain jane fs that has orphans in
it, they will never get cleaned up. This results in panic's like these
http://www.kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=1109085
where adding an orphan entry results in -EEXIST being returned and we panic. In
order to fix this, we check to see on lookup if our root has had the orphan
cleanup done, and if not go ahead and do it. This is easily reproduceable by
running this testcase
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char data[4096];
char newdata[4096];
int fd1, fd2;
memset(data, 'a', 4096);
memset(newdata, 'b', 4096);
while (1) {
int i;
fd1 = creat("file1", 0666);
if (fd1 < 0)
break;
for (i = 0; i < 512; i++)
write(fd1, data, 4096);
fsync(fd1);
close(fd1);
fd2 = creat("file2", 0666);
if (fd2 < 0)
break;
ftruncate(fd2, 4096 * 512);
for (i = 0; i < 512; i++)
write(fd2, newdata, 4096);
close(fd2);
i = rename("file2", "file1");
unlink("file1");
}
return 0;
}
and then pulling the power on the box, and then trying to run that test again
when the box comes back up. I've tested this locally and it fixes the problem.
Thanks to Tomas Carnecky for helping me track this down initially.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Fix bug reported by Johannes Hirte. The reason of that bug
is btrfs_del_items is called after btrfs_duplicate_item and
btrfs_del_items triggers tree balance. The fix is check that
case and call btrfs_search_slot when needed.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Stanse found 2 memory leaks in relocate_block_group and
__btrfs_map_block. cluster and multi are not freed/assigned on all
paths. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Some callers of btrfs_ordered_update_i_size can now pass in
a NULL for the ordered extent to update against. This makes
sure we properly align the offset they pass in when deciding
how much to bump the on disk i_size.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
parent 49313cdac7b34c9f7ecbb1780cfc648b1c082cd7 (v2.6.32-1-g49313cd)
commit ff48c08e1c05c67e8348ab6f8a24de8034e0e34d
Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date: Wed Dec 9 22:57:36 2009 +0100
Btrfs: fix missing last-entry in readdir(3)
When one does a 32-bit readdir(3), the last entry of a directory is
missing. This is however not due to passing a large value to filldir,
but it seems to have to do with glibc doing telldir or something
quirky. In any case, this patch fixes it in practice.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
do_add_mount() should sanitize mnt_flags
CIFS shouldn't make mountpoints shrinkable
mnt_flags fixes in do_remount()
attach_recursive_mnt() needs to hold vfsmount_lock over set_mnt_shared()
may_umount() needs namespace_sem
Fix configfs leak
Fix the -ESTALE handling in do_filp_open()
ecryptfs: Fix refcnt leak on ecryptfs_follow_link() error path
Fix ACC_MODE() for real
Unrot uml mconsole a bit
hppfs: handle ->put_link()
Kill 9p readlink()
fix autofs/afs/etc. magic mountpoint breakage
Fix a problem in NOMMU mmap with ramfs whereby a shared mmap can happen
over the end of a truncation. The problem is that
ramfs_nommu_check_mappings() checks that the reduced file size against the
VMA tree, but not the vm_region tree.
The following sequence of events can cause the problem:
fd = open("/tmp/x", O_RDWR|O_TRUNC|O_CREAT, 0600);
ftruncate(fd, 32 * 1024);
a = mmap(NULL, 32 * 1024, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
b = mmap(NULL, 16 * 1024, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
munmap(a, 32 * 1024);
ftruncate(fd, 16 * 1024);
c = mmap(NULL, 32 * 1024, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
Mapping 'a' creates a vm_region covering 32KB of the file. Mapping 'b'
sees that the vm_region from 'a' is covering the region it wants and so
shares it, pinning it in memory.
Mapping 'a' then goes away and the file is truncated to the end of VMA
'b'. However, the region allocated by 'a' is still in effect, and has
_not_ been reduced.
Mapping 'c' is then created, and because there's a vm_region covering the
desired region, get_unmapped_area() is _not_ called to repeat the check,
and the mapping is granted, even though the pages from the latter half of
the mapping have been discarded.
However:
d = mmap(NULL, 16 * 1024, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
Mapping 'd' should work, and should end up sharing the region allocated by
'a'.
To deal with this, we shrink the vm_region struct during the truncation,
lest do_mmap_pgoff() take it as licence to share the full region
automatically without calling the get_unmapped_area() file op again.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix the race between the truncation of a ramfs file and an attempt to make
a shared mmap of region of that file.
The problem is that do_mmap_pgoff() calls f_op->get_unmapped_area() to
verify that the file region is made of contiguous pages and to find its
base address - but there isn't any locking to guarantee this region until
vma_prio_tree_insert() is called by add_vma_to_mm().
Note that moving the functionality into f_op->mmap() doesn't help as that
is also called before vma_prio_tree_insert().
Instead make ramfs_nommu_check_mappings() grab nommu_region_sem whilst it
does its checks. This means that this function will wait whilst mmaps
take place.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
MNT_WRITE_HOLD shouldn't leak into new vfsmount and neither
should MNT_SHARED (the latter will be set properly, along with
the rest of shared-subtree data structures)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
inotify will WARN() if it finds that the idr and the fsnotify internals
somehow got out of sync. It was only supposed to do this once but due
to this stupid bug it would warn every single time a problem was
detected.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since commit 7e790dd5fc ("inotify: fix
error paths in inotify_update_watch") inotify changed the manor in which
it gave watch descriptors back to userspace. Previous to this commit
inotify acted like the following:
inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1
inotify_rm_watch(X, 1);
inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 2
but after this patch inotify would return watch descriptors like so:
inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1
inotify_rm_watch(X, 1);
inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1
which I saw as equivalent to opening an fd where
open(file) = 1;
close(1);
open(file) = 1;
seemed perfectly reasonable. The issue is that quite a bit of userspace
apparently relies on the behavior in which watch descriptors will not be
quickly reused. KDE relies on it, I know some selinux packages rely on
it, and I have heard complaints from other random sources such as debian
bug 558981.
Although the man page implies what we do is ok, we broke userspace so
this patch almost reverts us to the old behavior. It is still slightly
racey and I have patches that would fix that, but they are rather large
and this will fix it for all real world cases. The race is as follows:
- task1 creates a watch and blocks in idr_new_watch() before it updates
the hint.
- task2 creates a watch and updates the hint.
- task1 updates the hint with it's older wd
- task removes the watch created by task2
- task adds a new watch and will reuse the wd originally given to task2
it requires moving some locking around the hint (last_wd) but this should
solve it for the real world and be -stable safe.
As a side effect this patch papers over a bug in the lib/idr code which
is causing a large number WARN's to pop on people's system and many
reports in kerneloops.org. I'm working on the root cause of that idr
bug seperately but this should make inotify immune to that issue.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When swapping extents, we can corrupt inodes by swapping data forks
that are in incompatible formats. This is caused by the two indoes
having different fork offsets due to the presence of an attribute
fork on an attr2 filesystem. xfs_fsr tries to be smart about
setting the fork offset, but the trick it plays only works on attr1
(old fixed format attribute fork) filesystems.
Changing the way xfs_fsr sets up the attribute fork will prevent
this situation from ever occurring, so in the kernel code we can get
by with a preventative fix - check that the data fork in the
defragmented inode is in a format valid for the inode it is being
swapped into. This will lead to files that will silently and
potentially repeatedly fail defragmentation, so issue a warning to
the log when this particular failure occurs to let us know that
xfs_fsr needs updating/fixing.
To help identify how to improve xfs_fsr to avoid this issue, add
trace points for the inodes being swapped so that we can determine
why the swap was rejected and to confirm that the code is making the
right decisions and modifications when swapping forks.
A further complication is even when the swap is allowed to proceed
when the fork offset is different between the two inodes then value
for the maximum number of extents the data fork can hold can be
wrong. Make sure these are also set correctly after the swap occurs.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When xfs_rtfind_forw() returns an error, the block is returned
uninitialised. xfs_rtfree_range() is not checking the error return,
so could be using an uninitialised block number for modifying bitmap
summary info.
The problem was found by gcc when compiling the *userspace* libxfs
code - it is an copy of the kernel code with the exact same bug.
gcc gives an uninitialised variable warning on the userspace code
but not on the kernel code. You gotta love the consistency (Mmmm,
slightly chewy today!).
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When reclaiming stale inodes, we need to guarantee that inodes are
unpinned before returning with a "clean" status. If we don't we can
reclaim inodes that are pinned, leading to use after free in the
transaction subsystem as transactions complete.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
lockdep complains about a the lock not being initialised as we do an
ASSERT based check that the lock is not held before we initialise it
to catch inodes freed with the lock held.
lockdep does this check for us in the lock initialisation code, so
remove the ASSERT to stop the lockdep warning.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
We cannot do direct inode reclaim without taking the flush lock to
ensure that we do not reclaim an inode under IO. We check the inode
is clean before doing direct reclaim, but this is not good enough
because the inode flush code marks the inode clean once it has
copied the in-core dirty state to the backing buffer.
It is the flush lock that determines whether the inode is still
under IO, even though it is marked clean, and the inode is still
required at IO completion so we can't reclaim it even though it is
clean in core. Hence the requirement that we need to take the flush
lock even on clean inodes because this guarantees that the inode
writeback IO has completed and it is safe to reclaim the inode.
With delayed write inode flushing, we coul dend up waiting a long
time on the flush lock even for a clean inode. The background
reclaim already handles this efficiently, so avoid all the problems
by killing the direct reclaim path altogether.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The reclaim code will handle flushing of dirty inodes before reclaim
occurs, so avoid them when determining whether an inode is a
candidate for flushing to disk when walking the radix trees. This
is based on a test patch from Christoph Hellwig.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Al Viro