[Cluster-devel] [GFS2 PATCH] GFS2: Fix allocation error bug with recursive rgrp glocking

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

Bob,

On 30 May 2018 at 21:14, Bob Peterson <rpeterso at redhat.com> wrote:
> Before this patch function gfs2_write_begin, upon discovering an
> error, called gfs2_trim_blocks while the rgrp glock was still held.
> That's because gfs2_inplace_release is not called until later.

agreed.

> This patch reorganizes the logic a bit so gfs2_inplace_release
> is called to release the lock prior to the call to gfs2_trim_blocks,
> thus preventing the glock recursion.

gfs2_trim_blocks only needs to be called after __block_write_begin but
with your proposed patch, it also ends up being called on other error
paths.  This complicates gfs2_write_begin, so how about the below patch
instead?

Thanks,
Andreas

---
 fs/gfs2/aops.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/aops.c b/fs/gfs2/aops.c
index f58716567972..66e7172e0134 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/aops.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/aops.c
@@ -747,18 +747,21 @@ static int gfs2_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 	put_page(page);
 
 	gfs2_trans_end(sdp);
-	if (pos + len > ip->i_inode.i_size)
-		gfs2_trim_blocks(&ip->i_inode);
-	goto out_trans_fail;
+	if (alloc_required) {
+		gfs2_inplace_release(ip);
+		if (pos + len > ip->i_inode.i_size)
+			gfs2_trim_blocks(&ip->i_inode);
+	}
+	goto out_qunlock;
 
 out_endtrans:
 	gfs2_trans_end(sdp);
 out_trans_fail:
-	if (alloc_required) {
+	if (alloc_required)
 		gfs2_inplace_release(ip);
 out_qunlock:
+	if (alloc_required)
 		gfs2_quota_unlock(ip);
-	}
 out_unlock:
 	if (&ip->i_inode == sdp->sd_rindex) {
 		gfs2_glock_dq(&m_ip->i_gh);
-- 
2.17.0