jbd: Fix forever sleeping process in do_get_write_access()
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Thu, 5 May 2011 11:59:35 +0000 (13:59 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:24:01 +0000 (15:24 -0700)
commit 2842bb20eed2e25cde5114298edc62c8883a1d9a upstream.

In do_get_write_access() we wait on BH_Unshadow bit for buffer to get
from shadow state. The waking code in journal_commit_transaction() has
a bug because it does not issue a memory barrier after the buffer is moved
from the shadow state and before wake_up_bit() is called. Thus a waitqueue
check can happen before the buffer is actually moved from the shadow state
and waiting process may never be woken. Fix the problem by issuing proper
barrier.

Reported-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/jbd/commit.c

index 4bd882548c456bc496c9facab237e12445efaed1..17d29a83f3ed8eaf40a450231deef799b65372c0 100644 (file)
@@ -746,8 +746,13 @@ wait_for_iobuf:
                    required. */
                JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "file as BJ_Forget");
                journal_file_buffer(jh, commit_transaction, BJ_Forget);
-               /* Wake up any transactions which were waiting for this
-                  IO to complete */
+               /*
+                * Wake up any transactions which were waiting for this
+                * IO to complete. The barrier must be here so that changes
+                * by journal_file_buffer() take effect before wake_up_bit()
+                * does the waitqueue check.
+                */
+               smp_mb();
                wake_up_bit(&bh->b_state, BH_Unshadow);
                JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "brelse shadowed buffer");
                __brelse(bh);