Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: qgroup: exit the rescan worker during umount

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:45 AM, David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 06:05:17PM -0700, Justin Maggard wrote:
>> v2: Fix stupid error while making formatting changes...
>
> I haven't noticed any difference between the patches, what exactly did
> you change?
>

I broke compiling while cleaning up some checkpatch.pl feedback.
Here's what changed between v1 and v2:

-       if (!btrfs_fs_closing(fs_info)) {
+       if (!btrfs_fs_closing(fs_info))


>> I was hitting a consistent NULL pointer dereference during shutdown that
>> showed the trace running through end_workqueue_bio().  I traced it back to
>> the endio_meta_workers workqueue being poked after it had already been
>> destroyed.
>>
>> Eventually I found that the root cause was a qgroup rescan that was still
>> in progress while we were stopping all the btrfs workers.
>>
>> Currently we explicitly pause balance and scrub operations in
>> close_ctree(), but we do nothing to stop the qgroup rescan.  We should
>> probably be doing the same for qgroup rescan, but that's a much larger
>> change.  This small change is good enough to allow me to unmount without
>> crashing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Justin Maggard <jmaggard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Can you please submit the test you've used to trigger the crash to
> fstests?
>

Sure, I've got a reproducer coded up for xfstests now.  Should I just
send that to this list, or is there a better place to send it?

-Justin
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