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[4/7] ext4: eliminate sleep from shutdown ioctl

Message ID 20180220023038.19883-5-tytso@mit.edu
State Accepted, archived
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Series ext4: fix up shutdown handling | expand

Commit Message

Theodore Ts'o Feb. 20, 2018, 2:30 a.m. UTC
The msleep() when processing EXT4_GOING_FLAGS_NOLOGFLUSH was a hack to
avoid some races (that are now fixed), but in fact it introduced its
own race.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Jan Kara March 7, 2018, 9:07 a.m. UTC | #1
On Mon 19-02-18 21:30:35, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The msleep() when processing EXT4_GOING_FLAGS_NOLOGFLUSH was a hack to
> avoid some races (that are now fixed), but in fact it introduced its
> own race.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Looks good. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> index 4d1b1575f8ac..16d3d1325f5b 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> @@ -498,10 +498,8 @@ static int ext4_shutdown(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long arg)
>  		break;
>  	case EXT4_GOING_FLAGS_NOLOGFLUSH:
>  		set_bit(EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN, &sbi->s_ext4_flags);
> -		if (sbi->s_journal && !is_journal_aborted(sbi->s_journal)) {
> -			msleep(100);
> +		if (sbi->s_journal && !is_journal_aborted(sbi->s_journal))
>  			jbd2_journal_abort(sbi->s_journal, 0);
> -		}
>  		break;
>  	default:
>  		return -EINVAL;
> -- 
> 2.16.1.72.g5be1f00a9a
>
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index 4d1b1575f8ac..16d3d1325f5b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -498,10 +498,8 @@  static int ext4_shutdown(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long arg)
 		break;
 	case EXT4_GOING_FLAGS_NOLOGFLUSH:
 		set_bit(EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN, &sbi->s_ext4_flags);
-		if (sbi->s_journal && !is_journal_aborted(sbi->s_journal)) {
-			msleep(100);
+		if (sbi->s_journal && !is_journal_aborted(sbi->s_journal))
 			jbd2_journal_abort(sbi->s_journal, 0);
-		}
 		break;
 	default:
 		return -EINVAL;