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jbd2: Fix wrongly judgement for buffer head removing while doing chec…
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Following process,

jbd2_journal_commit_transaction
// there are several dirty buffer heads in transaction->t_checkpoint_list
          P1                   wb_workfn
jbd2_log_do_checkpoint
 if (buffer_locked(bh)) // false
                            __block_write_full_page
                             trylock_buffer(bh)
                             test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)
 if (!buffer_dirty(bh))
  __jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint(jh)
   if (buffer_write_io_error(bh)) // false
                             >> bh IO error occurs <<
 jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail
  __jbd2_update_log_tail
   jbd2_write_superblock
   // The bh won't be replayed in next mount.
, which could corrupt the ext4 image, fetch a reproducer in [Link].

Since writeback process clears buffer dirty after locking buffer head,
we can fix it by try locking buffer and check dirtiness while buffer is
locked, the buffer head can be removed if it is neither dirty nor locked.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217490
Fixes: 470decc ("[PATCH] jbd2: initial copy of files from jbd")
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
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Zhihao Cheng authored and tytso committed Jul 11, 2023
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32 changes: 17 additions & 15 deletions fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
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Expand Up @@ -204,20 +204,6 @@ int jbd2_log_do_checkpoint(journal_t *journal)
jh = transaction->t_checkpoint_list;
bh = jh2bh(jh);

/*
* The buffer may be writing back, or flushing out in the
* last couple of cycles, or re-adding into a new transaction,
* need to check it again until it's unlocked.
*/
if (buffer_locked(bh)) {
get_bh(bh);
spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
wait_on_buffer(bh);
/* the journal_head may have gone by now */
BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "brelse");
__brelse(bh);
goto retry;
}
if (jh->b_transaction != NULL) {
transaction_t *t = jh->b_transaction;
tid_t tid = t->t_tid;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -252,7 +238,22 @@ int jbd2_log_do_checkpoint(journal_t *journal)
spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
goto restart;
}
if (!buffer_dirty(bh)) {
if (!trylock_buffer(bh)) {
/*
* The buffer is locked, it may be writing back, or
* flushing out in the last couple of cycles, or
* re-adding into a new transaction, need to check
* it again until it's unlocked.
*/
get_bh(bh);
spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
wait_on_buffer(bh);
/* the journal_head may have gone by now */
BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "brelse");
__brelse(bh);
goto retry;
} else if (!buffer_dirty(bh)) {
unlock_buffer(bh);
BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "remove from checkpoint");
/*
* If the transaction was released or the checkpoint
Expand All @@ -262,6 +263,7 @@ int jbd2_log_do_checkpoint(journal_t *journal)
!transaction->t_checkpoint_list)
goto out;
} else {
unlock_buffer(bh);
/*
* We are about to write the buffer, it could be
* raced by some other transaction shrink or buffer
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