[2/3] btrfs: Don't call btrfs_start_transaction() on frozen fs to avoid deadlock.

Commit Message

David Sterba Jan. 20, 2015, 6:05 p.m. UTC

From: Qu Wenruo <[e-mail]>

Commit 6b5fe46dfa52 (btrfs: do commit in sync_fs if there are pending
changes) will call btrfs_start_transaction() in sync_fs(), to handle
some operations needed to be done in next transaction.

However this can cause deadlock if the filesystem is frozen, with the
following sys_r+w output:
[  143.255932] Call Trace:
[  143.255936]  [<ffffffff816c0e09>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[  143.255939]  [<ffffffff811cb7f3>] __sb_start_write+0xb3/0x100
[  143.255971]  [<ffffffffa040ec06>] start_transaction+0x2e6/0x5a0
[btrfs]
[  143.255992]  [<ffffffffa040f1eb>] btrfs_start_transaction+0x1b/0x20
[btrfs]
[  143.256003]  [<ffffffffa03dc0ba>] btrfs_sync_fs+0xca/0xd0 [btrfs]
[  143.256007]  [<ffffffff811f7be0>] sync_fs_one_sb+0x20/0x30
[  143.256011]  [<ffffffff811cbd01>] iterate_supers+0xe1/0xf0
[  143.256014]  [<ffffffff811f7d75>] sys_sync+0x55/0x90
[  143.256017]  [<ffffffff816c49d2>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17
[  143.256111] Call Trace:
[  143.256114]  [<ffffffff816c0e09>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[  143.256119]  [<ffffffff816c3405>] rwsem_down_write_failed+0x1c5/0x2d0
[  143.256123]  [<ffffffff8133f013>] call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x13/0x20
[  143.256131]  [<ffffffff811caae8>] thaw_super+0x28/0xc0
[  143.256135]  [<ffffffff811db3e5>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3f5/0x540
[  143.256187]  [<ffffffff811db5c1>] SyS_ioctl+0x91/0xb0
[  143.256213]  [<ffffffff816c49d2>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17

The reason is like the following:
(Holding s_umount)
VFS sync_fs staff:
|- btrfs_sync_fs()
   |- btrfs_start_transaction()
      |- sb_start_intwrite()
      (Waiting thaw_fs to unfreeze)
					VFS thaw_fs staff:
					thaw_fs()
					(Waiting sync_fs to release
					 s_umount)

So deadlock happens.
This can be easily triggered by fstest/generic/068 with inode_cache
mount option.

The fix is to check if the fs is frozen, if the fs is frozen, just
return and waiting for the next transaction.

Cc: David Sterba <[e-mail]>
Reported-by: Gui Hecheng <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <[e-mail]>
[enhanced comment, changed to SB_FREEZE_WRITE]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <[e-mail]>
---
 fs/btrfs/super.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index c86fb5438454..6f49b2872a64 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -1000,6 +1000,16 @@  int btrfs_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
 			 */
 			if (fs_info->pending_changes == 0)
 				return 0;
+			/*
+			 * A non-blocking test if the fs is frozen. We must not
+			 * start a new transaction here otherwise a deadlock
+			 * happens. The pending operations are delayed to the
+			 * next commit after thawing.
+			 */
+			if (__sb_start_write(sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE, false))
+				__sb_end_write(sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
+			else
+				return 0;
 			trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 0);
 		}
 		if (IS_ERR(trans))