[PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 119/190] jbd2: Fix lockdep splat with generic/270 test

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Thu Mar 08 2018 - 01:02:45 EST


From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit c52c47e4b4fbe4284602fc2ccbfc4a4d8dc05b49 ]

I've hit a lockdep splat with generic/270 test complaining that:

3216.fsstress.b/3533 is trying to acquire lock:
(jbd2_handle){++++..}, at: [<ffffffff813152e0>] jbd2_log_wait_commit+0x0/0x150

but task is already holding lock:
(jbd2_handle){++++..}, at: [<ffffffff8130bd3b>] start_this_handle+0x35b/0x850

The underlying problem is that jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested()
(called from ext4_should_retry_alloc()) may get called while a
transaction handle is started. In such case it takes care to not wait
for commit of the running transaction (which would deadlock) but only
for a commit of a transaction that is already committing (which is safe
as that doesn't wait for any filesystem locks).

In fact there are also other callers of jbd2_log_wait_commit() that take
care to pass tid of a transaction that is already committing and for
those cases, the lockdep instrumentation is too restrictive and leading
to false positive reports. Fix the problem by calling
jbd2_might_wait_for_commit() from jbd2_log_wait_commit() only if the
transaction isn't already committing.

Fixes: 1eaa566d368b214d99cbb973647c1b0b8102a9ae
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/jbd2/journal.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 7d4b557f1962..047c8ef620fe 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -691,8 +691,21 @@ int jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t tid)
{
int err = 0;

- jbd2_might_wait_for_commit(journal);
read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
+ /*
+ * Some callers make sure transaction is already committing and in that
+ * case we cannot block on open handles anymore. So don't warn in that
+ * case.
+ */
+ if (tid_gt(tid, journal->j_commit_sequence) &&
+ (!journal->j_committing_transaction ||
+ journal->j_committing_transaction->t_tid != tid)) {
+ read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+ jbd2_might_wait_for_commit(journal);
+ read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+ }
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG
if (!tid_geq(journal->j_commit_request, tid)) {
printk(KERN_ERR
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