2.6.31 xfs_fs_destroy_inode: cannot reclaim

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sun Oct 18 18:59:10 CDT 2009


On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:06:57PM +0200, Tommy van Leeuwen wrote:
> > Thanks. ?The patch below should fix the inode reclaim race that could
> > lead to the double free you're seeing. ?To be applied ontop of all
> > the other patches I sent you.
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> Here are 2 more crashes with this patch applied, both having xfs_debug
> on and showing different traces (not inode reclaim related?). Hope
> it's usefull.

Can't make too much sense of it, but the dir2 is something you reported
earlier already.  We must be stomping over inodes somewhere, but I'm
not too sure where exactly.  Can you try throwing the patch below ontop
of your stack?  It fixes an area where we could theoretically corrupt
inode state.

Index: xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c	2009-10-16 22:54:41.513254291 +0200
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c	2009-10-16 22:57:10.451256293 +0200
@@ -180,6 +180,11 @@ xfs_sync_inode_valid(
 		return EFSCORRUPTED;
 	}
 
+	if (xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_INEW | XFS_IRECLAIMABLE | XFS_IRECLAIM)) {
+		read_unlock(&pag->pag_ici_lock);
+		return ENOENT;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * If we can't get a reference on the inode, it must be in reclaim.
 	 * Leave it for the reclaim code to flush. Also avoid inodes that
@@ -191,7 +196,7 @@ xfs_sync_inode_valid(
 	}
 	read_unlock(&pag->pag_ici_lock);
 
-	if (is_bad_inode(inode) || xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_INEW)) {
+	if (is_bad_inode(inode)) {
 		IRELE(ip);
 		return ENOENT;
 	}




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