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authorDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>2012-11-02 14:23:12 +1100
committerBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>2012-11-08 11:10:35 -0600
commit03b1293edad462ad1ad62bcc5160c76758e450d5 (patch)
tree2d5d9237d5bcafea39b8021ed2a02019b0c643f8 /fs
parent4b62acfe99e158fb7812982d1cf90a075710a92c (diff)
xfs: fix buffer shudown reference count mismatch
When we shut down the filesystem, we have to unpin and free all the buffers currently active in the CIL. To do this we unpin and remove them in one operation as a result of a failed iclogbuf write. For buffers, we do this removal via a simultated IO completion of after marking the buffer stale. At the time we do this, we have two references to the buffer - the active LRU reference and the buf log item. The LRU reference is removed by marking the buffer stale, and the active CIL reference is by the xfs_buf_iodone() callback that is run by xfs_buf_do_callbacks() during ioend processing (via the bp->b_iodone callback). However, ioend processing requires one more reference - that of the IO that it is completing. We don't have this reference, so we free the buffer prematurely and use it after it is freed. For buffers marked with XBF_ASYNC, this leads to assert failures in xfs_buf_rele() on debug kernels because the b_hold count is zero. Fix this by making sure we take the necessary IO reference before starting IO completion processing on the stale buffer, and set the XBF_ASYNC flag to ensure that IO completion processing removes all the active references from the buffer to ensure it is fully torn down. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
index a8d0ed91119..becf4a97efc 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
@@ -526,7 +526,25 @@ xfs_buf_item_unpin(
}
xfs_buf_relse(bp);
} else if (freed && remove) {
+ /*
+ * There are currently two references to the buffer - the active
+ * LRU reference and the buf log item. What we are about to do
+ * here - simulate a failed IO completion - requires 3
+ * references.
+ *
+ * The LRU reference is removed by the xfs_buf_stale() call. The
+ * buf item reference is removed by the xfs_buf_iodone()
+ * callback that is run by xfs_buf_do_callbacks() during ioend
+ * processing (via the bp->b_iodone callback), and then finally
+ * the ioend processing will drop the IO reference if the buffer
+ * is marked XBF_ASYNC.
+ *
+ * Hence we need to take an additional reference here so that IO
+ * completion processing doesn't free the buffer prematurely.
+ */
xfs_buf_lock(bp);
+ xfs_buf_hold(bp);
+ bp->b_flags |= XBF_ASYNC;
xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, EIO);
XFS_BUF_UNDONE(bp);
xfs_buf_stale(bp);