From: Dave Chinner Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 22:05:45 +0000 (+1000) Subject: xfs: truncate_setsize should be outside transactions X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=49abc3a8f84146f74daadbaa7cde7d34f2bb40a8;p=linux-beck.git xfs: truncate_setsize should be outside transactions truncate_setsize() removes pages from the page cache, and hence requires page locks to be held. It is not valid to lock a page cache page inside a transaction context as we can hold page locks when we we reserve space for a transaction. If we do, then we expose an ABBA deadlock between log space reservation and page locks. That is, both the write path and writeback lock a page, then start a transaction for block allocation, which means they can block waiting for a log reservation with the page lock held. If we hold a log reservation and then do something that locks a page (e.g. truncate_setsize in xfs_setattr_size) then that page lock can block on the page locked and waiting for a log reservation. If the transaction that is waiting for the page lock is the only active transaction in the system that can free log space via a commit, then writeback will never make progress and so log space will never free up. This issue with xfs_setattr_size() was introduced back in 2010 by commit fa9b227 ("xfs: new truncate sequence") which moved the page cache truncate from outside the transaction context (what was xfs_itruncate_data()) to inside the transaction context as a call to truncate_setsize(). The reason truncate_setsize() was located where in this place was that we can't shouldn't change the file size until after we are in the transaction context and the operation will either succeed or shut down the filesystem on failure. However, block_truncate_page() already modifies the file contents before we enter the transaction context, so we can't really fulfill this guarantee in any way. Hence we may as well ensure that on success or failure, the in-memory inode and data is truncated away and that the application cleans up the mess appropriately. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner --- diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c index 89b07e43ca28..7ee5a9d56787 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c @@ -808,22 +808,34 @@ xfs_setattr_size( */ inode_dio_wait(inode); + /* + * Do all the page cache truncate work outside the transaction context + * as the "lock" order is page lock->log space reservation. i.e. + * locking pages inside the transaction can ABBA deadlock with + * writeback. We have to do the VFS inode size update before we truncate + * the pagecache, however, to avoid racing with page faults beyond the + * new EOF they are not serialised against truncate operations except by + * page locks and size updates. + * + * Hence we are in a situation where a truncate can fail with ENOMEM + * from xfs_trans_reserve(), but having already truncated the in-memory + * version of the file (i.e. made user visible changes). There's not + * much we can do about this, except to hope that the caller sees ENOMEM + * and retries the truncate operation. + */ error = -block_truncate_page(inode->i_mapping, newsize, xfs_get_blocks); if (error) return error; + truncate_setsize(inode, newsize); tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_SETATTR_SIZE); error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, &M_RES(mp)->tr_itruncate, 0, 0); if (error) goto out_trans_cancel; - truncate_setsize(inode, newsize); - commit_flags = XFS_TRANS_RELEASE_LOG_RES; lock_flags |= XFS_ILOCK_EXCL; - xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); - xfs_trans_ijoin(tp, ip, 0); /*