jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
Once we decrement transaction->t_updates, if this is the last handle holding the transaction from closing, and once we release the t_handle_lock spinlock, it's possible for the transaction to commit and be released. In practice with normal kernels, this probably won't happen, since the commit happens in a separate kernel thread and it's unlikely this could all happen within the space of a few CPU cycles. On the other hand, with a real-time kernel, this could potentially happen, so save the tid found in transaction->t_tid before we release t_handle_lock. It would require an insane configuration, such as one where the jbd2 thread was set to a very high real-time priority, perhaps because a high priority real-time thread is trying to read or write to a file system. But some people who use real-time kernels have been known to do insane things, including controlling laser-wielding industrial robots. :-) Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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@ -652,10 +652,10 @@ int jbd2__journal_restart(handle_t *handle, int nblocks, gfp_t gfp_mask)
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if (atomic_dec_and_test(&transaction->t_updates))
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wake_up(&journal->j_wait_updates);
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tid = transaction->t_tid;
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spin_unlock(&transaction->t_handle_lock);
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jbd_debug(2, "restarting handle %p\n", handle);
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tid = transaction->t_tid;
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need_to_start = !tid_geq(journal->j_commit_request, tid);
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read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
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if (need_to_start)
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