[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "Btrfs: fix deadlock with nested trans handles" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Btrfs: fix deadlock with nested trans handles

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.22.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Josef Bacik <jbacik at fb.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 19:01:07 -0500
Subject: Btrfs: fix deadlock with nested trans handles

commit 3bbb24b20a8800158c33eca8564f432dd14d0bf3 upstream.

Zach found this deadlock that would happen like this

btrfs_end_transaction <- reduce trans->use_count to 0
  btrfs_run_delayed_refs
    btrfs_cow_block
      find_free_extent
	btrfs_start_transaction <- increase trans->use_count to 1
          allocate chunk
	btrfs_end_transaction <- decrease trans->use_count to 0
	  btrfs_run_delayed_refs
	    lock tree block we are cowing above ^^

We need to only decrease trans->use_count if it is above 1, otherwise leave it
alone.  This will make nested trans be the only ones who decrease their added
ref, and will let us get rid of the trans->use_count++ hack if we have to commit
the transaction.  Thanks,

Reported-by: Zach Brown <zab at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik at fb.com>
Tested-by: Zach Brown <zab at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 14 ++++----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
index fc03aa6..29334bf 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
@@ -562,7 +562,8 @@ static int __btrfs_end_transaction(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	int lock = (trans->type != TRANS_JOIN_NOLOCK);
 	int err = 0;

-	if (--trans->use_count) {
+	if (trans->use_count > 1) {
+		trans->use_count--;
 		trans->block_rsv = trans->orig_rsv;
 		return 0;
 	}
@@ -613,17 +614,10 @@ static int __btrfs_end_transaction(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	}

 	if (lock && cur_trans->blocked && !cur_trans->in_commit) {
-		if (throttle) {
-			/*
-			 * We may race with somebody else here so end up having
-			 * to call end_transaction on ourselves again, so inc
-			 * our use_count.
-			 */
-			trans->use_count++;
+		if (throttle)
 			return btrfs_commit_transaction(trans, root);
-		} else {
+		else
 			wake_up_process(info->transaction_kthread);
-		}
 	}

 	if (trans->type < TRANS_JOIN_NOLOCK)
--
1.9.1