Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: fix freeing delayed ref head while still holding its mutex

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:06:18PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> I hit this error when reproducing a bug that would end in a transaction
> abort.  We take the delayed ref head's mutex to keep anybody from processing
> it while we're destroying it, but we fail to drop the mutex before we carry
> on and free the damned thing.  Fix this by doing the remove logic for the
> head ourselves and unlock the mutex, that way we can avoid use after free's
> or hung tasks waiting on that mutex to come back so they know the delayed
> ref completed.  Thanks,
> 

> +			ref->in_tree = 0;
> +			rb_erase(&ref->rb_node, &delayed_refs->root);
> +			delayed_refs->num_entries--;
> +			mutex_unlock(&head->mutex);
> +		} else {
> +			ref->in_tree = 0;
> +			rb_erase(&ref->rb_node, &delayed_refs->root);
> +			delayed_refs->num_entries--;

Do you really need to duplicate the removal under the mutex?  Isn't all
that protected by the delayed_refs->lock?

Isn't it enough to just add the mutex_unlock()?

- z
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