jbd2: issue cache flush after checkpointing even with internal journal
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:22:54 +0000 (22:22 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:33:15 +0000 (16:33 +0200)
commita3ceb22921615827bfed39d7612a9a370bff0edb
treef068d9991d554ad8cba128636e4d25a459d16c4d
parentdd8ff32c1e7ed10fb0e168b4431983e09acbeb2f
jbd2: issue cache flush after checkpointing even with internal journal

commit 79feb521a44705262d15cc819a4117a447b11ea7 upstream.

When we reach jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail(), there is no guarantee that
checkpointed buffers are on a stable storage - especially if buffers were
written out by jbd2_log_do_checkpoint(), they are likely to be only in disk's
caches. Thus when we update journal superblock effectively removing old
transaction from journal, this write of superblock can get to stable storage
before those checkpointed buffers which can result in filesystem corruption
after a crash. Thus we must unconditionally issue a cache flush before we
update journal superblock in these cases.

A similar problem can also occur if journal superblock is written only in
disk's caches, other transaction starts reusing space of the transaction
cleaned from the log and power failure happens. Subsequent journal replay would
still try to replay the old transaction but some of it's blocks may be already
overwritten by the new transaction. For this reason we must use WRITE_FUA when
updating log tail and we must first write new log tail to disk and update
in-memory information only after that.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
[bwh: Prerequisite for "jbd2: fix ocfs2 corrupt when updating journal
 superblock fails".
 Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - Drop changes to jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail trace event]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
fs/jbd2/commit.c
fs/jbd2/journal.c
fs/jbd2/recovery.c
include/linux/jbd2.h
include/trace/events/jbd2.h