Re: [PATCH 2/7] btrfs: extend critical section when scanning a new device

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On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 04:18:09PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/21/2018 01:51 AM, David Sterba wrote:
> > The stale device list removal needs to be protected by device_list_mutex
> > too as this could delete from the list and could race with another list
> > modification and cause crash.
> > 
> > The device needs to be fully initialized before it's added to the list
> > so the fs_devices also need to be set under the mutex.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 5 ++---
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> > index 1da162928d1a..02246f9af0a3 100644
> > --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> > +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> > @@ -791,12 +791,11 @@ static noinline struct btrfs_device *device_list_add(const char *path,
> >   		rcu_assign_pointer(device->name, name);
> >   
> >   		mutex_lock(&fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
> > +		device->fs_devices = fs_devices;
> >   		list_add_rcu(&device->dev_list, &fs_devices->devices);
> >   		fs_devices->num_devices++;
> > -		mutex_unlock(&fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
> > -
> > -		device->fs_devices = fs_devices;
> >   		btrfs_free_stale_devices(path, device);
> 
> 
> This is not correct.
> 
> btrfs_free_stale_devices need the per fs_devices local device_list_mutex
> lock as it traverses through the fs_uuids list. Holding just the lock of
> the %fs_devices which is being scanned or mounted is not correct.

I see, ok. The use of fs_devs is not very visible in
btrfs_free_stale_devices but at least the function comment hints that
all devices are being traversed.
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