[patch 37/60] ext4: fix ext4_free_inode() vs. ext4_claim_inode() race

[Greg KH]

-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>

(cherry picked from commit 7ce9d5d1f3c8736511daa413c64985a05b2feee3)

I was seeing fsck errors on inode bitmaps after a 4 thread
dbench run on a 4 cpu machine:

Inode bitmap differences: -50736 -(50752--50753) etc...

I believe that this is because ext4_free_inode() uses atomic
bitops, and although ext4_new_inode() *used* to also use atomic
bitops for synchronization, commit
393418676a7602e1d7d3f6e560159c65c8cbd50e changed this to use
the sb_bgl_lock, so that we could also synchronize against
read_inode_bitmap and initialization of uninit inode tables.

However, that change left ext4_free_inode using atomic bitops,
which I think leaves no synchronization between setting &
unsetting bits in the inode table.

The below patch fixes it for me, although I wonder if we're
getting at all heavy-handed with this spinlock...

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/ext4/ialloc.c |   12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ void ext4_free_inode (handle_t *handle, 
 	struct ext4_group_desc * gdp;
 	struct ext4_super_block * es;
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi;
-	int fatal = 0, err;
+	int fatal = 0, err, cleared;
 	ext4_group_t flex_group;
 
 	if (atomic_read(&inode->i_count) > 1) {
@@ -242,10 +242,12 @@ void ext4_free_inode (handle_t *handle, 
 		goto error_return;
 
 	/* Ok, now we can actually update the inode bitmaps.. */
-	if (!ext4_clear_bit_atomic(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, block_group),
-					bit, bitmap_bh->b_data))
-		ext4_error (sb, "ext4_free_inode",
-			      "bit already cleared for inode %lu", ino);
+	spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, block_group));
+	cleared = ext4_clear_bit(bit, bitmap_bh->b_data);
+	spin_unlock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, block_group));
+	if (!cleared)
+		ext4_error(sb, "ext4_free_inode",
+			   "bit already cleared for inode %lu", ino);
 	else {
 		gdp = ext4_get_group_desc (sb, block_group, &bh2);
 


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