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    Btrfs: fix btrfs_write_inode vs delayed iput deadlock · 7ecc8a10
    Josef Bacik authored
    commit 3c427693 upstream.
    
    We recently ran into the following deadlock involving
    btrfs_write_inode():
    
    [  +0.005066]  __schedule+0x38e/0x8c0
    [  +0.007144]  schedule+0x36/0x80
    [  +0.006447]  bit_wait+0x11/0x60
    [  +0.006446]  __wait_on_bit+0xbe/0x110
    [  +0.007487]  ? bit_wait_io+0x60/0x60
    [  +0.007319]  __inode_wait_for_writeback+0x96/0xc0
    [  +0.009568]  ? autoremove_wake_function+0x40/0x40
    [  +0.009565]  inode_wait_for_writeback+0x21/0x30
    [  +0.009224]  evict+0xb0/0x190
    [  +0.006099]  iput+0x1a8/0x210
    [  +0.006103]  btrfs_run_delayed_iputs+0x73/0xc0
    [  +0.009047]  btrfs_commit_transaction+0x799/0x8c0
    [  +0.009567]  btrfs_write_inode+0x81/0xb0
    [  +0.008008]  __writeback_single_inode+0x267/0x320
    [  +0.009569]  writeback_sb_inodes+0x25b/0x4e0
    [  +0.008702]  wb_writeback+0x102/0x2d0
    [  +0.007487]  wb_workfn+0xa4/0x310
    [  +0.006794]  ? wb_workfn+0xa4/0x310
    [  +0.007143]  process_one_work+0x150/0x410
    [  +0.008179]  worker_thread+0x6d/0x520
    [  +0.007490]  kthread+0x12c/0x160
    [  +0.006620]  ? put_pwq_unlocked+0x80/0x80
    [  +0.008185]  ? kthread_park+0xa0/0xa0
    [  +0.007484]  ? do_syscall_64+0x53/0x150
    [  +0.007837]  ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40
    
    Writeback calls:
    
    btrfs_write_inode
      btrfs_commit_transaction
        btrfs_run_delayed_iputs
    
    If iput() is called on that same inode, evict() will wait for writeback
    forever.
    
    btrfs_write_inode() was originally added way back in 4730a4bc
    ("btrfs_dirty_inode") to support O_SYNC writes. However, ->write_inode()
    hasn't been used for O_SYNC since 148f948b
    
     ("vfs: Introduce new
    helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode"), so
    btrfs_write_inode() is actually unnecessary (and leads to a bunch of
    unnecessary commits). Get rid of it, which also gets rid of the
    deadlock.
    
    CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
    [Omar: new commit message]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    7ecc8a10