1 ext4: don't lock buffer in ext4_commit_super if holding spinlock
3 If there is an error reported in mballoc via ext4_grp_locked_error(),
4 the code is holding a spinlock, so ext4_commit_super() must not try to
5 lock the buffer head, or else it will trigger a BUG:
7 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/buffer_head.h:358
8 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 993, name: mount
9 CPU: 0 PID: 993 Comm: mount Not tainted 4.9.0-rc1-clouder1 #62
10 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.8.1-0-g4adadbd-20150316_085822-nilsson.home.kraxel.org 04/01/2014
11 ffff880006423548 ffffffff81318c89 ffffffff819ecdd0 0000000000000166
12 ffff880006423558 ffffffff810810b0 ffff880006423580 ffffffff81081153
13 ffff880006e5a1a0 ffff88000690e400 0000000000000000 ffff8800064235c0
15 [<ffffffff81318c89>] dump_stack+0x67/0x9e
16 [<ffffffff810810b0>] ___might_sleep+0xf0/0x140
17 [<ffffffff81081153>] __might_sleep+0x53/0xb0
18 [<ffffffff8126c1dc>] ext4_commit_super+0x19c/0x290
19 [<ffffffff8126e61a>] __ext4_grp_locked_error+0x14a/0x230
20 [<ffffffff81081153>] ? __might_sleep+0x53/0xb0
21 [<ffffffff812822be>] ext4_mb_generate_buddy+0x1de/0x320
23 Since ext4_grp_locked_error() calls ext4_commit_super with sync == 0
24 (and it is the only caller which does so), avoid locking and unlocking
25 the buffer in this case.
27 This can result in races with ext4_commit_super() if there are other
28 problems (which is what commit 4743f83990614 was trying to address),
29 but a Warning is better than BUG.
32 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9
33 Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
34 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
35 Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
37 fs/ext4/super.c | 5 +++--
38 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
40 diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
41 index e4f61c39328a..ff6f3ab09c7e 100644
44 @@ -4537,7 +4537,8 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, int sync)
45 &EXT4_SB(sb)->s_freeinodes_counter));
46 BUFFER_TRACE(sbh, "marking dirty");
47 ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb);
51 if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh)) {
53 * Oh, dear. A previous attempt to write the
54 @@ -4553,8 +4554,8 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, int sync)
55 set_buffer_uptodate(sbh);
57 mark_buffer_dirty(sbh);
61 error = __sync_dirty_buffer(sbh,
62 test_opt(sb, BARRIER) ? WRITE_FUA : WRITE_SYNC);