[PATCH] JFS: Take logsync lock before testing mp->lsn

From: Dave Kleikamp
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 14:42:03 EST


On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 11:33 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> >
> > I'd really like the first of these patches (first in the list, but the most
> > recent) to make it into 2.6.16. All of these patches have been tested in
> > -mm, so I'm confident that they won't break anything. If you don't want to
> > pick up all of them, I could send you just the one patch.
>
> At this point in the game, I'd rather take just individual patches known
> to fix particular bugs..

Okay, I'll just send it the old-fashioned way, and clean up my git tree
after you pick it up.

> It's ok if the patches come in through a git tree, but the particular git
> tree you pointed to has other diffs that definitely look like fine
> cleanups, but still they're just cleanups.
>
> Linus

JFS: Take logsync lock before testing mp->lsn

This fixes a race where lsn could be cleared before taking the lock

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c
index 4fb3ed1..c161c98 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c
@@ -532,10 +532,10 @@ dbUpdatePMap(struct inode *ipbmap,

lastlblkno = lblkno;

+ LOGSYNC_LOCK(log, flags);
if (mp->lsn != 0) {
/* inherit older/smaller lsn */
logdiff(diffp, mp->lsn, log);
- LOGSYNC_LOCK(log, flags);
if (difft < diffp) {
mp->lsn = lsn;

@@ -548,20 +548,17 @@ dbUpdatePMap(struct inode *ipbmap,
logdiff(diffp, mp->clsn, log);
if (difft > diffp)
mp->clsn = tblk->clsn;
- LOGSYNC_UNLOCK(log, flags);
} else {
mp->log = log;
mp->lsn = lsn;

/* insert bp after tblock in logsync list */
- LOGSYNC_LOCK(log, flags);
-
log->count++;
list_add(&mp->synclist, &tblk->synclist);

mp->clsn = tblk->clsn;
- LOGSYNC_UNLOCK(log, flags);
}
+ LOGSYNC_UNLOCK(log, flags);
}

/* write the last buffer. */
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
index 87dd86c..b62a048 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
@@ -2844,11 +2844,11 @@ diUpdatePMap(struct inode *ipimap,
*/
lsn = tblk->lsn;
log = JFS_SBI(tblk->sb)->log;
+ LOGSYNC_LOCK(log, flags);
if (mp->lsn != 0) {
/* inherit older/smaller lsn */
logdiff(difft, lsn, log);
logdiff(diffp, mp->lsn, log);
- LOGSYNC_LOCK(log, flags);
if (difft < diffp) {
mp->lsn = lsn;
/* move mp after tblock in logsync list */
@@ -2860,17 +2860,15 @@ diUpdatePMap(struct inode *ipimap,
logdiff(diffp, mp->clsn, log);
if (difft > diffp)
mp->clsn = tblk->clsn;
- LOGSYNC_UNLOCK(log, flags);
} else {
mp->log = log;
mp->lsn = lsn;
/* insert mp after tblock in logsync list */
- LOGSYNC_LOCK(log, flags);
log->count++;
list_add(&mp->synclist, &tblk->synclist);
mp->clsn = tblk->clsn;
- LOGSYNC_UNLOCK(log, flags);
}
+ LOGSYNC_UNLOCK(log, flags);
write_metapage(mp);
return (0);
}

--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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