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Filipe Manana cceaa89f02 btrfs: remove racy and unnecessary inode transaction update when using no-holes
When using the NO_HOLES feature and expanding the size of an inode, we
update the inode's last_trans, last_sub_trans and last_log_commit fields
at maybe_insert_hole() so that a fsync does know that the inode needs to
be logged (by making sure that btrfs_inode_in_log() returns false). This
happens for expanding truncate operations, buffered writes, direct IO
writes and when cloning extents to an offset greater than the inode's
i_size.

However the way we do it is racy, because in between setting the inode's
last_sub_trans and last_log_commit fields, the log transaction ID that was
assigned to last_sub_trans might be committed before we read the root's
last_log_commit and assign that value to last_log_commit. If that happens
it would make a future call to btrfs_inode_in_log() return true. This is
a race that should be extremely unlikely to be hit in practice, and it is
the same that was described by commit bc0939fcfa ("btrfs: fix race
between marking inode needs to be logged and log syncing").

The fix would simply be to set last_log_commit to the value we assigned
to last_sub_trans minus 1, like it was done in that commit. However
updating these two fields plus the last_trans field is pointless here
because all the callers of btrfs_cont_expand() (which is the only
caller of maybe_insert_hole()) always call btrfs_set_inode_last_trans()
or btrfs_update_inode() after calling btrfs_cont_expand(). Calling either
btrfs_set_inode_last_trans() or btrfs_update_inode() guarantees that the
next fsync will log the inode, as it makes btrfs_inode_in_log() return
false.

So just remove the code that explicitly sets the inode's last_trans,
last_sub_trans and last_log_commit fields.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2021-08-23 13:19:01 +02:00
arch powerpc fixes for 5.14 #6 2021-08-22 09:49:31 -07:00
block block-5.14-2021-08-20 2021-08-21 08:11:22 -07:00
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Documentation RISC-V Fixes for 5.14-rc7 2021-08-21 11:04:26 -07:00
drivers Two clk driver fixes 2021-08-21 11:27:16 -07:00
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Makefile Linux 5.14-rc7 2021-08-22 14:24:56 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.