ext3: fix hang on umount with quotas when journal is aborted
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:16:13 +0000 (02:16 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:58:45 +0000 (08:58 -0700)
Call dquot_drop() from ext3_dquot_drop() even if we fail to start a
transaction.  Otherwise we never get to dropping references to quota
structures from the inode and umount will hang indefinitely.  Thanks to
Payphone LIOU for spotting the problem.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Payphone LIOU <lioupayphone@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ext3/super.c

index 770bbb4fa58c44cf10e26f5b521d1e47d307b811..03d5c626c1cd2291007b81738644e0632981502a 100644 (file)
@@ -2639,8 +2639,14 @@ static int ext3_dquot_drop(struct inode *inode)
 
        /* We may delete quota structure so we need to reserve enough blocks */
        handle = ext3_journal_start(inode, 2*EXT3_QUOTA_DEL_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
-       if (IS_ERR(handle))
+       if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+               /*
+                * We call dquot_drop() anyway to at least release references
+                * to quota structures so that umount does not hang.
+                */
+               dquot_drop(inode);
                return PTR_ERR(handle);
+       }
        ret = dquot_drop(inode);
        err = ext3_journal_stop(handle);
        if (!ret)