It is incorrect to use list_for_each_entry_safe() for journal callback
traversial because ->next may be removed by other task:
->ext4_mb_free_metadata()
->ext4_mb_free_metadata()
->ext4_journal_callback_del()
This results in the following issue:
WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:62 __list_del_entry+0x1c0/0x250()
Hardware name:
list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffff88019a4ec198, but was 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
Modules linked in: cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf coretemp kvm_intel kvm crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel microcode sg xhci_hcd button sd_mod crc_t10dif aesni_intel ablk_helper cryptd lrw aes_x86_64 xts gf128mul ahci libahci pata_acpi ata_generic dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
Pid: 16400, comm: jbd2/dm-1-8 Tainted: G W 3.8.0-rc3+ #107
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8106fb0d>] warn_slowpath_common+0xad/0xf0
[<ffffffff8106fc06>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[<ffffffff813637e9>] ? ext4_journal_commit_callback+0x99/0xc0
[<ffffffff8148cae0>] __list_del_entry+0x1c0/0x250
[<ffffffff813637bf>] ext4_journal_commit_callback+0x6f/0xc0
[<ffffffff813ca336>] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x23a6/0x2570
[<ffffffff8108aa42>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x82/0xa0
[<ffffffff8108b491>] ? del_timer_sync+0x91/0x1e0
[<ffffffff813d3ecf>] kjournald2+0x19f/0x6a0
[<ffffffff810ad630>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
[<ffffffff813d3d30>] ? bit_spin_lock+0x80/0x80
[<ffffffff810ac6be>] kthread+0x10e/0x120
[<ffffffff810ac5b0>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70
[<ffffffff818ff6ac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffff810ac5b0>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70
This patch fix the issue as follows:
- ext4_journal_commit_callback() make list truly traversial safe
simply by always starting from list_head
- fix race between two ext4_journal_callback_del() and
ext4_journal_callback_try_del()
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.com
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