Race in wb_do_writeback() ???
From: Larry Woodman
Date: Tue Jun 29 2010 - 16:24:35 EST
Chistoph, I am seeing slabcache corruption. wb_do_writeback() calls
wb_clear_pending() which can queue up the freeing of the bdi_work. Then
it calls wb_writeback() which can block, resulting in using the bdi_work
after its freed.
------------------------------------------------------------------
/*
* If this isn't a data integrity operation, just notify
* that we have seen this work and we are now starting it.
*/
if (!test_bit(WS_ONSTACK, &work->state))
wb_clear_pending(wb, work);
wrote += wb_writeback(wb, &args);
/*
* This is a data integrity writeback, so only do the
* notification when we have completed the work.
*/
if (test_bit(WS_ONSTACK, &work->state))
wb_clear_pending(wb, work);
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Can you have one unconditional call to wb_clear_pending() after the
calling wb_writeback()???
Larry
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