jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head()
jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head() can oops when trying to access
journal_head returned by bh2jh(). This is caused for example by the
following race:
TASK1 TASK2
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction()
...
processing t_forget list
__jbd2_journal_refile_buffer(jh);
if (!jh->b_transaction) {
jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers()
jbd2_journal_grab_journal_head(bh)
jbd_lock_bh_state(bh)
__journal_try_to_free_buffer()
jbd2_journal_put_journal_head(jh)
jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head(bh);
jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() in TASK2 sees that b_jcount == 0 and
buffer is not part of any transaction and thus frees journal_head
before TASK1 gets to doing so. Note that even buffer_head can be
released by try_to_free_buffers() after
jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() which adds even larger opportunity for
oops (but I didn't see this happen in reality).
Fix the problem by making transactions hold their own journal_head
reference (in b_jcount). That way we don't have to remove journal_head
explicitely via jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head() and instead just
remove journal_head when b_jcount drops to zero. The result of this is
that [__]jbd2_journal_refile_buffer(),
[__]jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer(), and
__jdb2_journal_remove_checkpoint() can free journal_head which needs
modification of a few callers. Also we have to be careful because once
journal_head is removed, buffer_head might be freed as well. So we
have to get our own buffer_head reference where it matters.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index 7f21cf3..eef6979 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -848,10 +848,16 @@
while (commit_transaction->t_forget) {
transaction_t *cp_transaction;
struct buffer_head *bh;
+ int try_to_free = 0;
jh = commit_transaction->t_forget;
spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
bh = jh2bh(jh);
+ /*
+ * Get a reference so that bh cannot be freed before we are
+ * done with it.
+ */
+ get_bh(bh);
jbd_lock_bh_state(bh);
J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction == commit_transaction);
@@ -914,28 +920,27 @@
__jbd2_journal_insert_checkpoint(jh, commit_transaction);
if (is_journal_aborted(journal))
clear_buffer_jbddirty(bh);
- JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "refile for checkpoint writeback");
- __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer(jh);
- jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
} else {
J_ASSERT_BH(bh, !buffer_dirty(bh));
- /* The buffer on BJ_Forget list and not jbddirty means
+ /*
+ * The buffer on BJ_Forget list and not jbddirty means
* it has been freed by this transaction and hence it
* could not have been reallocated until this
* transaction has committed. *BUT* it could be
* reallocated once we have written all the data to
* disk and before we process the buffer on BJ_Forget
- * list. */
- JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "refile or unfile freed buffer");
- __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer(jh);
- if (!jh->b_transaction) {
- jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
- /* needs a brelse */
- jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head(bh);
- release_buffer_page(bh);
- } else
- jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
+ * list.
+ */
+ if (!jh->b_next_transaction)
+ try_to_free = 1;
}
+ JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "refile or unfile buffer");
+ __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer(jh);
+ jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
+ if (try_to_free)
+ release_buffer_page(bh); /* Drops bh reference */
+ else
+ __brelse(bh);
cond_resched_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
}
spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
