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jbd2: Fix assertion failure in fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:58:27 +0000 (23:58 -0500)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:58:27 +0000 (23:58 -0500)
commitf5a7a6b0d9b6af7d46124ed3f6b3995225cb62d0
treecbb2bc79a488461bf3bec9b60d15e21717dc8360
parent36df53f4a3e445175fc1e9d7f433599482ec6d7f
jbd2: Fix assertion failure in fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c

Before we start committing a transaction, we call
__journal_clean_checkpoint_list() to cleanup transaction's written-back
buffers.

If this call happens to remove all of them (and there were already some
buffers), __journal_remove_checkpoint() will decide to free the transaction
because it isn't (yet) a committing transaction and soon we fail some
assertion - the transaction really isn't ready to be freed :).

We change the check in __journal_remove_checkpoint() to free only a
transaction in T_FINISHED state.  The locking there is subtle though (as
everywhere in JBD ;().  We use j_list_lock to protect the check and a
subsequent call to __journal_drop_transaction() and do the same in the end
of journal_commit_transaction() which is the only place where a transaction
can get to T_FINISHED state.

Probably I'm too paranoid here and such locking is not really necessary -
checkpoint lists are processed only from log_do_checkpoint() where a
transaction must be already committed to be processed or from
__journal_clean_checkpoint_list() where kjournald itself calls it and thus
transaction cannot change state either.  Better be safe if something
changes in future...

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
fs/jbd2/commit.c
include/linux/jbd2.h