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  1. 10 Feb, 2008 2 commits
    • Jan Kara's avatar
      ext4: Fix Direct I/O locking · 7fb5409d
      Jan Kara authored 
      We cannot start transaction in ext4_direct_IO() and just let it last
during the whole write because dio_get_page() acquires mmap_sem which
ranks above transaction start (e.g. because we have dependency chain
mmap_sem->PageLock->journal_start, or because we update atime while
holding mmap_sem) and thus deadlocks could happen. We solve the problem
by starting a transaction separately for each ext4_get_block() call.

We *could* have a problem that we allocate a block and before its data
are written out the machine crashes and thus we expose stale data. But
that does not happen because for hole-filling generic code falls back to
buffered writes and for file extension, we add inode to orphan list and
thus in case of crash, journal replay will truncate inode back to the
original size.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      7fb5409d
    • Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar
      ext4: Fix circular locking dependency with migrate and rm. · 8009f9fb
      Aneesh Kumar K.V authored 
      In order to prevent a circular locking dependency when an unlink
operation is racing with an ext4 migration, we delay taking i_data_sem
until just before switch the inode format, and use i_mutex to prevent
writes and truncates during the first part of the migration operation.
Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      8009f9fb
  3. 06 Feb, 2008 1 commit
    • Eric Sandeen's avatar
      allow in-inode EAs on ext4 root inode · 0040d987
      Eric Sandeen authored 
      The ext3 root inode was treated specially with respect
to in-inode extended attributes, for reasons detailed
in the removed comment below.  The first mkfs-created
inodes would not get extra_i_size or the EXT3_STATE_XATTR
flag set in ext3_read_inode, which disallowed reading or
setting in-inode EAs on the root.

However, in ext4, ext4_mark_inode_dirty calls
ext4_expand_extra_isize for all inodes; once this is done
EAs may be placed in the root ext4 inode body.

But for reasons above, it won't be found after a reboot.

testcase:

setfattr -n user.name -v value mntpt/
setfattr -n user.name2 -v value2 mntpt/
umount mntpt/; remount mntpt/
getfattr -d mntpt/

name2/value2 has gone missing; debugfs shows it in the
inode body, but it is not found there by getattr.

The following fixes it up; newer mkfs appears to properly
zero the inodes, so this workaround isn't needed for ext4.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      0040d987
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  11. 05 Feb, 2008 1 commit
    • Mingming Cao's avatar
      jbd2: Add error check to journal_wait_on_commit_record to avoid oops · b048d846
      Mingming Cao authored 
      The buffer head pointer passed to journal_wait_on_commit_record() could
be NULL if the previous journal_submit_commit_record() failed or journal
has already aborted.

Looking at the jbd2 debug messages, before the oops happened, the jbd2
is aborted due to trying to access the next log block beyond the end
of device. This might be caused by using a corrupted image.

We need to check the error returns from journal_submit_commit_record()
and avoid calling journal_wait_on_commit_record() in the failure case.

This addresses Kernel Bugzilla #9849
Signed-off-by: default avatarMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      b048d846
  13. 09 Feb, 2008 31 commits