Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: fix crash of starting balance

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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:47:57PM +0800, Liu Bo wrote:
> We will crash on BUG_ON(ret == -EEXIST) when we do not resume the existing
> balance but attempt to start a new one.
> 
> The steps can be:
> 1. start balance
> 2. pause balance
> 3. start balance
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/volumes.c |    7 ++++++-
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> index 5cce6aa..3901654 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> @@ -3100,7 +3100,12 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_balance_control *bctl,
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	if (!(bctl->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_RESUME)) {
> -		BUG_ON(ret == -EEXIST);
> +		/*
> +		 * This can happen when we do not resume the existing balance
> +		 * but try to start a new one instead.
> +		 */
> +		if (ret == -EEXIST)
> +			goto out;
>  		set_balance_control(bctl);
>  	} else {
>  		BUG_ON(ret != -EEXIST);

OK, it seems balance pause/resume logic got broken by dev-replace code
(5ac00addc7ac09110995fe967071d191b5981cc1), which went into v3.8-rc1.
This is most certainly not the right way to fix it, that BUG_ON is there
for a reason.  I'll send a fix in a couple of days.

Thanks,

		Ilya

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