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    jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head() · de1b7941
    Jan Kara authored
    jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head() can oops when trying to access
    journal_head returned by bh2jh(). This is caused for example by the
    following race:
    
    	TASK1					TASK2
      jbd2_journal_commit_transaction()
        ...
        processing t_forget list
          __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer(jh);
          if (!jh->b_transaction) {
            jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
    					jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers()
    					  jbd2_journal_grab_journal_head(bh)
    					  jbd_lock_bh_state(bh)
    					  __journal_try_to_free_buffer()
    					  jbd2_journal_put_journal_head(jh)
            jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head(bh);
    
    jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() in TASK2 sees that b_jcount == 0 and
    buffer is not part of any transaction and thus frees journal_head
    before TASK1 gets to doing so. Note that even buffer_head can be
    released by try_to_free_buffers() after
    jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() which adds even larger opportunity for
    oops (but I didn't see this happen in reality).
    
    Fix the problem by making transactions hold their own journal_head
    reference (in b_jcount). That way we don't have to remove journal_head
    explicitely via jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head() and instead just
    remove journal_head when b_jcount drops to zero. The result of this is
    that [__]jbd2_journal_refile_buffer(),
    [__]jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer(), and
    __jdb2_journal_remove_checkpoint() can free journal_head which needs
    modification of a few callers. Also we have to be careful because once
    journal_head is removed, buffer_head might be freed as well. So we
    have to get our own buffer_head reference where it matters.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    de1b7941
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