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Fix race in ext4_mb_add_n_trim()

Message ID 50EA669E.1030008@gmail.com
State Accepted, archived
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Niu Yawei Jan. 7, 2013, 6:09 a.m. UTC 
From 020243735e97f327ecba729ec05d4e3facdddc78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niu Yawei <niu@whamcloud.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 01:03:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix race in ext4_mb_add_n_trim()

In ext4_mb_add_n_trim(), lg_prealloc_lock should be taken when
changing the lg_prealloc_list.

Signed-off-by: Niu Yawei <yawei.niu@intel.com>
---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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Comments

Theodore Ts'o Feb. 2, 2013, 2:32 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 08:09:34PM -0000, Niu Yawei wrote:
> >From 020243735e97f327ecba729ec05d4e3facdddc78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Niu Yawei <niu@whamcloud.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 01:03:26 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix race in ext4_mb_add_n_trim()
> 
> In ext4_mb_add_n_trim(), lg_prealloc_lock should be taken when
> changing the lg_prealloc_list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Niu Yawei <yawei.niu@intel.com>

Applied, thanks!

						- Ted
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 1bf6fe7..45d3527 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4136,7 +4136,7 @@  static void ext4_mb_add_n_trim(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
                /* The max size of hash table is PREALLOC_TB_SIZE */
                order = PREALLOC_TB_SIZE - 1;
        /* Add the prealloc space to lg */
-       rcu_read_lock();
+       spin_lock(&lg->lg_prealloc_lock);
        list_for_each_entry_rcu(tmp_pa, &lg->lg_prealloc_list[order],
                                                pa_inode_list) {
                spin_lock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock);
@@ -4160,7 +4160,7 @@  static void ext4_mb_add_n_trim(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
        if (!added)
                list_add_tail_rcu(&pa->pa_inode_list,
                                        &lg->lg_prealloc_list[order]);
-       rcu_read_unlock();
+       spin_unlock(&lg->lg_prealloc_lock);

        /* Now trim the list to be not more than 8 elements */
        if (lg_prealloc_count > 8) {