Re: general protection fault: from release_blocks_on_commit

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Mon Oct 27 2008 - 22:16:22 EST


Theodore Tso wrote:

> I looked at this some more, and at least in theory it could happen
> that we could not have any buffers that need to be checkpointed (so
> t_checkpoint_list and t_checkpoint_io_list are NULL), but there are
> still blocks to be released (or some other users of the jbd2 layer
> still wants to have the callback be called). So I'm currently testing
> this patch (see below).
>
> - Ted

Looks reasonable to me from a correctness perspective, anyway, as long
as holding the j_list_lock over that callback is ok.

It does fix the oops-on-reboot that I could reproduce.

-Eric


> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
> index 8b119e1..ebc667b 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
> @@ -974,6 +974,9 @@ restart_loop:
> journal->j_committing_transaction = NULL;
> spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
>
> + if (journal->j_commit_callback)
> + journal->j_commit_callback(journal, commit_transaction);
> +
> if (commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_list == NULL &&
> commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_io_list == NULL) {
> __jbd2_journal_drop_transaction(journal, commit_transaction);
> @@ -995,11 +998,8 @@ restart_loop:
> }
> spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
>
> - if (journal->j_commit_callback)
> - journal->j_commit_callback(journal, commit_transaction);
> -
> trace_mark(jbd2_end_commit, "dev %s transaction %d head %d",
> - journal->j_devname, commit_transaction->t_tid,
> + journal->j_devname, journal->j_commit_sequence,
> journal->j_tail_sequence);
> jbd_debug(1, "JBD: commit %d complete, head %d\n",
> journal->j_commit_sequence, journal->j_tail_sequence);

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