ext4: remove mb_groups before tearing down the buddy_cache
authorSalman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Fri, 1 Jun 2012 03:52:14 +0000 (23:52 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:41:53 +0000 (14:41 +0100)
commit 95599968d19db175829fb580baa6b68939b320fb upstream.

We can't have references held on pages in the s_buddy_cache while we are
trying to truncate its pages and put the inode.  All the pages must be
gone before we reach clear_inode.  This can only be gauranteed if we
can prevent new users from grabbing references to s_buddy_cache's pages.

The original bug can be reproduced and the bug fix can be verified by:

while true; do mount -t ext4 /dev/ram0 /export/hda3/ram0; \
umount /export/hda3/ram0; done &

while true; do cat /proc/fs/ext4/ram0/mb_groups; done

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
fs/ext4/mballoc.c

index 382e4fc..1d07c12 100644 (file)
@@ -2567,6 +2567,9 @@ int ext4_mb_release(struct super_block *sb)
        struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
        struct kmem_cache *cachep = get_groupinfo_cache(sb->s_blocksize_bits);
 
+       if (sbi->s_proc)
+               remove_proc_entry("mb_groups", sbi->s_proc);
+
        if (sbi->s_group_info) {
                for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) {
                        grinfo = ext4_get_group_info(sb, i);
@@ -2614,8 +2617,6 @@ int ext4_mb_release(struct super_block *sb)
        }
 
        free_percpu(sbi->s_locality_groups);
-       if (sbi->s_proc)
-               remove_proc_entry("mb_groups", sbi->s_proc);
 
        return 0;
 }