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authorDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>2008-07-11 17:43:55 +1000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-11 11:37:18 -0700
commit49641f1acfdfd437ed9b0a70b86bf36626c02afe (patch)
tree628838591b71f80d96c548d1a145b8d086c33c2a /fs
parent61ca9daa2ca3022dc9cb22bd98e69c1b61e412ad (diff)
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Fix reference counting race on log buffers
When we release the iclog, we do an atomic_dec_and_lock to determine if we are the last reference and need to trigger update of log headers and writeout. However, in xlog_state_get_iclog_space() we also need to check if we have the last reference count there. If we do, we release the log buffer, otherwise we decrement the reference count. But the compare and decrement in xlog_state_get_iclog_space() is not atomic, so both places can see a reference count of 2 and neither will release the iclog. That leads to a filesystem hang. Close the race by replacing the atomic_read() and atomic_dec() pair with atomic_add_unless() to ensure that they are executed atomically. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Reviewed-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Tested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_log.c15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
index afaee301b0ee..ad3d26ddfe31 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
@@ -2427,13 +2427,20 @@ restart:
if (iclog->ic_size - iclog->ic_offset < 2*sizeof(xlog_op_header_t)) {
xlog_state_switch_iclogs(log, iclog, iclog->ic_size);
- /* If I'm the only one writing to this iclog, sync it to disk */
- if (atomic_read(&iclog->ic_refcnt) == 1) {
+ /*
+ * If I'm the only one writing to this iclog, sync it to disk.
+ * We need to do an atomic compare and decrement here to avoid
+ * racing with concurrent atomic_dec_and_lock() calls in
+ * xlog_state_release_iclog() when there is more than one
+ * reference to the iclog.
+ */
+ if (!atomic_add_unless(&iclog->ic_refcnt, -1, 1)) {
+ /* we are the only one */
spin_unlock(&log->l_icloglock);
- if ((error = xlog_state_release_iclog(log, iclog)))
+ error = xlog_state_release_iclog(log, iclog);
+ if (error)
return error;
} else {
- atomic_dec(&iclog->ic_refcnt);
spin_unlock(&log->l_icloglock);
}
goto restart;