Git bisection shows that commit
e6bc45d65df8599fdbae73be9cec4ceed274db53 causes
BUG_ONs under high I/O load:
kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:1368!
[ 2862.501007] Call Trace:
[ 2862.501007] [<
ffffffff811691d8>] d_kill+0xf8/0x140
[ 2862.501007] [<
ffffffff81169c19>] dput+0xc9/0x190
[ 2862.501007] [<
ffffffff8115577f>] fput+0x15f/0x210
[ 2862.501007] [<
ffffffff81152171>] filp_close+0x61/0x90
[ 2862.501007] [<
ffffffff81152251>] sys_close+0xb1/0x110
[ 2862.501007] [<
ffffffff814c14fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
A reliable way to reproduce this bug is:
Login to KDE, run 'rsnapshot sync', and apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk,
and apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk.
The buggy part of the patch is this:
struct inode *inode = NULL;
.....
- if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len])
- goto slashes;
inode = dentry->d_inode;
- if (inode)
- ihold(inode);
+ if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len] || !inode)
+ goto slashes;
+ ihold(inode)
...
if (inode)
iput(inode); /* truncate the inode here */
If nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is nonzero (and thus goto slashes branch is taken),
and dentry->d_inode is non-NULL, then this code now does an additional iput on
the inode, which is wrong.
Fix this by only setting the inode variable if nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is 0.
Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/15/50
Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Reported-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>