writeback: keep superblock pinned during cgroup writeback association switches
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:34:07 +0000 (11:34 -0700)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:34:07 +0000 (11:34 -0700)
commit5ff8eaac1636bf6deae86491f4818c4c69d1a9ac
treed4f5814a06bfebb36aea4c07b43a70381b48ed42
parent2d99b55d378c996b9692a0c93dd25f4ed5d58934
writeback: keep superblock pinned during cgroup writeback association switches

If cgroup writeback is in use, an inode is associated with a cgroup
for writeback.  If the inode's main dirtier changes to another cgroup,
the association gets updated asynchronously.  Nothing was pinning the
superblock while such switches are in progress and superblock could go
away while async switching is pending or in progress leading to
crashes like the following.

 kernel BUG at fs/jbd2/transaction.c:319!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 CPU: 1 PID: 29158 Comm: kworker/1:10 Not tainted 4.5.0-rc3 #51
 Hardware name: Google Google, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
 Workqueue: events inode_switch_wbs_work_fn
 task: ffff880213dbbd40 ti: ffff880209264000 task.ti: ffff880209264000
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff803e6922>]  [<ffffffff803e6922>] start_this_handle+0x382/0x3e0
 RSP: 0018:ffff880209267c30  EFLAGS: 00010202
 ...
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff803e6be4>] jbd2__journal_start+0xf4/0x190
  [<ffffffff803cfc7e>] __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x4e/0x70
  [<ffffffff803b31ec>] ext4_evict_inode+0x12c/0x3d0
  [<ffffffff8035338b>] evict+0xbb/0x190
  [<ffffffff80354190>] iput+0x130/0x190
  [<ffffffff80360223>] inode_switch_wbs_work_fn+0x343/0x4c0
  [<ffffffff80279819>] process_one_work+0x129/0x300
  [<ffffffff80279b16>] worker_thread+0x126/0x480
  [<ffffffff8027ed14>] kthread+0xc4/0xe0
  [<ffffffff809771df>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70

Fix it by bumping s_active while cgroup association switching is in
flight.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/CAAeU0aNCq7LGODvVGRU-oU_o-6enii5ey0p1c26D1ZzYwkDc5A@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: d10c80955265 ("writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #v4.5+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
fs/fs-writeback.c