xfs_file_last_byte() needs to acquire ilock
authorLachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:18:00 +0000 (22:18 -0400)
committerFelix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:14:10 +0000 (09:14 -0500)
commitf25181f598cf4a8ccc40a51d8b74f8b555ecddee
treec27dcad813a3e5aeb8c96017ff1a81f736dfef08
parent8de2bf937a6bea8f0f775fd5399ba20c1a0c3d77
xfs_file_last_byte() needs to acquire ilock

We had some systems crash with this stack:

[<a00000010000cb20>] ia64_leave_kernel+0x0/0x280
[<a00000021291ca00>] xfs_bmbt_get_startoff+0x0/0x20 [xfs]
[<a0000002129080b0>] xfs_bmap_last_offset+0x210/0x280 [xfs]
[<a00000021295b010>] xfs_file_last_byte+0x70/0x1a0 [xfs]
[<a00000021295b200>] xfs_itruncate_start+0xc0/0x1a0 [xfs]
[<a0000002129935f0>] xfs_inactive_free_eofblocks+0x290/0x460 [xfs]
[<a000000212998fb0>] xfs_release+0x1b0/0x240 [xfs]
[<a0000002129ad930>] xfs_file_release+0x70/0xa0 [xfs]
[<a000000100162ea0>] __fput+0x1a0/0x420
[<a000000100163160>] fput+0x40/0x60

The problem here is that xfs_file_last_byte() does not acquire the
inode lock and can therefore race with another thread that is modifying
the extext list.  While xfs_bmap_last_offset() is trying to lookup
what was the last extent some extents were merged and the extent list
shrunk so the index we lookup is now beyond the end of the extent list
and potentially in a freed buffer.

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c