From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753770AbcFOUfl (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:35:41 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f52.google.com ([209.85.220.52]:33263 "EHLO mail-pa0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751061AbcFOUfk (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:35:40 -0400 From: Tahsin Erdogan To: Jens Axboe , Tejun Heo , Alexander Viro , Jan Kara Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tahsin Erdogan Subject: [PATCH v2] writeback: inode cgroup wb switch should not call ihold() Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:35:10 -0700 Message-Id: <1466022910-11243-1-git-send-email-tahsin@google.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Asynchronous wb switching of inodes takes an additional ref count on an inode to make sure inode remains valid until switchover is completed. However, anyone calling ihold() must already have a ref count on inode, but in this case inode->i_count may already be zero: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 917 at fs/inode.c:397 ihold+0x2b/0x30 CPU: 1 PID: 917 Comm: kworker/u4:5 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc2+ #49 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-8:16) 0000000000000000 ffff88007ca0fb58 ffffffff805990af 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007ca0fb98 ffffffff80268702 0000018d000004e2 ffff88007cef40e8 ffff88007c9b89a8 ffff880079e3a740 0000000000000003 Call Trace: [] dump_stack+0x4d/0x6e [] __warn+0xc2/0xe0 [] warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x20 [] ihold+0x2b/0x30 [] inode_switch_wbs+0x11c/0x180 [] wbc_detach_inode+0x170/0x1a0 [] writeback_sb_inodes+0x21c/0x530 [] wb_writeback+0xee/0x1e0 [] wb_workfn+0xd7/0x280 [] ? try_to_wake_up+0x1b1/0x2b0 [] process_one_work+0x129/0x300 [] worker_thread+0x126/0x480 [] ? __schedule+0x1c7/0x561 [] ? process_one_work+0x300/0x300 [] kthread+0xc4/0xe0 [] ? kfree+0xc8/0x100 [] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40 [] ? __kthread_parkme+0x70/0x70 ---[ end trace aaefd2fd9f306bc4 ]--- Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan --- v2: removed inode->i_count == 0 check replaced ihold() with __iget() updated commit description fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 989a2cef6b76..fe7e83a45eff 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -483,9 +483,9 @@ static void inode_switch_wbs(struct inode *inode, int new_wb_id) goto out_free; } inode->i_state |= I_WB_SWITCH; + __iget(inode); spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); - ihold(inode); isw->inode = inode; atomic_inc(&isw_nr_in_flight); -- 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020