@@ -127,14 +127,29 @@ void __log_wait_for_space(journal_t *jou
/*
* Test again, another process may have checkpointed while we
- * were waiting for the checkpoint lock
+ * were waiting for the checkpoint lock. If there are no
+ * outstanding transactions there is nothing to checkpoint and
+ * we can't make progress. Abort the journal in this case.
*/
spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+ spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
nblocks = jbd_space_needed(journal);
if (__log_space_left(journal) < nblocks) {
+ int chkpt = journal->j_checkpoint_transactions != NULL;
+
+ spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
- log_do_checkpoint(journal);
+ if (chkpt) {
+ log_do_checkpoint(journal);
+ } else {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: no transactions\n",
+ __func__);
+ journal_abort(journal, 0);
+ }
+
spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+ } else {
+ spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
}
mutex_unlock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
}
The patch titled jbd: abort instead of waiting for nonexistent transactions has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was jbd-abort-instead-of-waiting-for-nonexistent-transactions.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: jbd: abort instead of waiting for nonexistent transactions From: "Duane Griffin" <duaneg@dghda.com> The __log_wait_for_space function sits in a loop checkpointing transactions until there is sufficient space free in the journal. However, if there are no transactions to be processed (e.g. because the free space calculation is wrong due to a corrupted filesystem) it will never progress. Check for space being required when no transactions are outstanding and abort the journal instead of endlessly looping. This patch fixes the bug reported by Sami Liedes at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10976 Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Tested-by: Sami Liedes <sliedes@cc.hut.fi> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> --- fs/jbd/checkpoint.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)