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ext4: don't lock buffer in ext4_commit_super if holding spinlock
If there is an error reported in mballoc via ext4_grp_locked_error(),
the code is holding a spinlock, so ext4_commit_super() must not try to
lock the buffer head, or else it will trigger a BUG:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/buffer_head.h:358
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 993, name: mount
CPU: 0 PID: 993 Comm: mount Not tainted 4.9.0-rc1-clouder1 hardkernel#62
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.8.1-0-g4adadbd-20150316_085822-nilsson.home.kraxel.org 04/01/2014
ffff880006423548 ffffffff81318c89 ffffffff819ecdd0 0000000000000166
ffff880006423558 ffffffff810810b0 ffff880006423580 ffffffff81081153
ffff880006e5a1a0 ffff88000690e400 0000000000000000 ffff8800064235c0
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81318c89>] dump_stack+0x67/0x9e
[<ffffffff810810b0>] ___might_sleep+0xf0/0x140
[<ffffffff81081153>] __might_sleep+0x53/0xb0
[<ffffffff8126c1dc>] ext4_commit_super+0x19c/0x290
[<ffffffff8126e61a>] __ext4_grp_locked_error+0x14a/0x230
[<ffffffff81081153>] ? __might_sleep+0x53/0xb0
[<ffffffff812822be>] ext4_mb_generate_buddy+0x1de/0x320
Since ext4_grp_locked_error() calls ext4_commit_super with sync == 0
(and it is the only caller which does so), avoid locking and unlocking
the buffer in this case.
This can result in races with ext4_commit_super() if there are other
problems (which is what commit 4743f83 was trying to address),
but a Warning is better than BUG.
Fixes: 4743f83
Cc: [email protected] # 4.9
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
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