On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 02:03:07PM +0100, Filipe David Manana wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 05:41:04PM +0100, Filipe Manana wrote:
> >> If submit_extent_page() fails in write_one_eb(), we end up with the current
> >> page not marked dirty anymore, unlocked and marked for writeback. But we never
> >> end up calling end_page_writeback() against the page, which will make calls to
> >> filemap_fdatawait_range (e.g. at transaction commit time) hang forever waiting
> >> for the writeback bit to be cleared from the page.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 1 +
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> >> index 3af4966..91f866c 100644
> >> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> >> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> >> @@ -3668,6 +3668,7 @@ static noinline_for_stack int write_one_eb(struct extent_buffer *eb,
> >> if (ret) {
> >> set_bit(EXTENT_BUFFER_IOERR, &eb->bflags);
> >> SetPageError(p);
> >> + end_page_writeback(p);
> >
> > This is not always true, and it depends on the place where we get error in
> > submit_extent_page(), whether it has built and submitted a bio, if it's true,
> > case can be different as bio_endio will be called, and calling end_page_writeback()
> > again will end up with panic.
>
> No, it's always true when the caller is write_one_eb(). If
> submit_extent_page() returns an error, we're sure that the page wasn't
> added to a bio, because bio_ret is always not NULL (but *bio_ret can
> be). Also, if we call submit_one_bio() in submit_extent_page() (first
> if statement) , we know that the bio doesn't contain the page.
I see, you're right.
Reviewed-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
thanks,
-liubo
>
> thanks
>
> >
> > thanks,
> > -liubo
> >
> >> if (atomic_sub_and_test(num_pages - i, &eb->io_pages))
> >> end_extent_buffer_writeback(eb);
> >> ret = -EIO;
> >> --
> >> 1.9.1
> >>
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