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    f2fs: cover global locks for reserve_new_block · bd43df02
    Jaegeuk Kim authored
    
    
    The fill_zero() from fallocate() calls get_new_data_page() in which calls
    reserve_new_block().
    The reserve_new_block() should be covered by *DATA_NEW*, one of global locks.
    And also, before getting the lock, we should check free sections by calling
    f2fs_balance_fs().
    
    If we break this rule, f2fs is able to face with out-of-control free space
    management and fall into infinite loop like the following scenario as well.
    
    [f2fs_sync_fs()]             [fallocate()]
     - write_checkpoint()        - fill_zero()
      - block_operations()        - get_new_data_page()
       : grab NODE_NEW             - get_dnode_of_data()
                                    : get locked dirty node page
        - sync_node_pages()
                                    : try to grab NODE_NEW for data allocation
         : trylock and skip the dirty node page
       : call sync_node_pages() repeatedly in order to flush all the dirty node
         pages!
    
    In order to avoid this, we should grab another global lock such as DATA_NEW
    before calling get_new_data_page() in fill_zero().
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
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