[v2.6.34-stable 178/213] ext4: lock i_mutex when truncating orphan inodes

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Wed Feb 05 2014 - 15:14:31 EST


From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit 721e3eba21e43532e438652dd8f1fcdfce3187e7 upstream.

Commit c278531d39 added a warning when ext4_flush_unwritten_io() is
called without i_mutex being taken. It had previously not been taken
during orphan cleanup since races weren't possible at that point in
the mount process, but as a result of this c278531d39, we will now see
a kernel WARN_ON in this case. Take the i_mutex in
ext4_orphan_cleanup() to suppress this warning.

Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 6928d5ad2c0d..90906948e242 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2028,7 +2028,9 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct super_block *sb,
__func__, inode->i_ino, inode->i_size);
jbd_debug(2, "truncating inode %lu to %lld bytes\n",
inode->i_ino, inode->i_size);
+ mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
ext4_truncate(inode);
+ mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
nr_truncates++;
} else {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_DEBUG,
--
1.8.5.2

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